Natural Remedies for Ear Aches. Before antibiotics, parents used home remedies to treat the pain of ear infections. Now, with current concern over antibiotic overuse, many of these remedies are again popular.1  Depending on regional cultures, parents may have pressed a warm water bottle or warm bag of salt against the ear.atural Remedies for Ear Aches. Before antibiotics, parents used home remedies to treat the pain of ear infections. Now, with current concern over antibiotic overuse, many of these remedies are again popular.
Eric Kandel, MD, a Nobel Prize laureate and professor of brain science at Columbia University, believes it's all about biology. All mental processes are brain processes, and therefore all disorders of mental functioning are biological diseases, he says. The brain is the organ of the mind.
Carl Cotman, a professor of psychobiology at UCI, will receive $200,000 to support his research into the debilitating and fatal disease and $50,000 as a prize. Cotman, a pioneer in research of brain chemistry, has developed approaches to Alzheimer's disease that may be applicable to other brain disorders.