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Control of inflammation

...s. Chronic inflammation is characteristic of such disorders as asthma, chronic hepatitis, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. Little is known about the body,s own mechanism for controlling inflammation and the tissue damage that accompanies it. According to Dr.Sitkovsky, there must be some way for the body to sho...

Vitamin E useful for Alzheimer's

...l antidote to the oxidative stress linked to brain disorders such as Alzheimer's. Taking vitamin supplements could help prevent such diseases, the researchers state. Antioxidants such as vitamin E redeem free radicals and counterbalance the damage they cause. The study has been carried out on mice with stupen...

Bruxism linked to anxiety disorder

...e related problem.Mental disorders, mainly anxiety disorders and hallucinations, were also significantly related to tooth grinding during sleep. About 73 percent of those with sleep bruxism related their condition to either aggrevation, stress, or anxiety. Daily use of alcohol, tobacco, or caffeine were also...

Right side of the brain helps in awareness

...tually to use such information to help people with disorders that include a lack of awareness of self and others, such as schizophrenia, autism and depersonalisation syndrome. Keenan and colleagues worked with five patients who had each half of their brain anaesthetised briefly as part of preoperative testing...

Control of anger disorder connected to Brain Dysfunction

...hers notes that individuals with other psychiatric disorders that involve impulsive behavior--such as antisocial personality disorder and obsessive/compulsive disorder--show deficits similar to those found....

Sleep disorders can have anomalistic sexual acts

...bed partner were related to several types of sleep disorders and, in many cases, psychiatric conditions. In al...was "eliminated" in most patients when their sleep disorders and psychiatric conditions were treated. It is unclear how common this sleep-related problem is, acc...

Psychiatric issues common in brain disease

...ondition can't be reversed or treated, psychiatric disorders such as depression are treatable. Addressing such problems in those with Huntington's could greatly improve quality of life - for the patients and their families....

Latest discovery on Autism

...ithout autism to have had defined gastrointestinal disorders at any time before their diagnosis of autism." A...vidence against an association of gastrointestinal disorders and autism....

Multiple organ disease cured by genes

...idosis VII (MPS) is one of a group of rare genetic disorders called lysosomal storage diseases. Other examples include Tay Sachs disease and Gaucher disease. MPS involves an enzyme defect, leading to blindness, heart disease, and loss of mobility. Most humans with MPS die in childhood. Researchers at the Uni...

Suicide might be inherited

...rding to a new study, children of people with mood disorders who have attempted suicide are more likely to try ...d// to sexual abuse and women who suffer from mood disorders themselves. Research has shown people with a family history of suicide are at increased risk of com...

Coenzyme Q10 may reduce risk of Parkinson's disease

...kinson's disease// can help alleviate the movement disorders that accompany the condition, but they do not actually stop the underlying brain damage. In Parkinson's, cells in the substantia nigra, at the base of the brain, are slowly destroyed, leading to a number of motor and emotional symptoms. In a prelim...

Role of wives of Alcoholics

...y than other women to have other major psychiatric disorders and did not report a higher rate of alcohol abuse themselves. Marc Schuckit and colleagues from the Healthcare System interviewed 250 women whose husbands had been involved in an earlier study of sons of alcoholics. Ninety-two of the women had husban...

Gastrointestinal conditions affect sleep

...phageal reflux disease, and other gastrointestinal disorders are more likely than others without these conditions to report excessive daytime sleepiness, insomnia, and poor sleep quality.// Researchers from Pennsylvania State University selected more than 1,550 adults, who reported having risk factors for slee...

Change in walking might indicate Dementia

...orm of dementia is non-Alzheimer's dementia. Gait disorders are increasingly common with advancing age. Betwee...findings indicate a strong connection between gait disorders and dementia. "If replicated, these findings would provide a strategy for identifying a group at ver...

Psychiatric disorders among juveniles

...ns in order to track the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among the teens. Researchers found almost half of ... girls. The authors write, "Youth with psychiatric disorders pose a challenge for the juvenile justice system and, after their release, for the larger mental hea...

Spine Surgeries becoming less painful

... common among// older people. Hitherto, both these disorders were treated through conventional spine surgeries which required an incision of about 12cms to be made and the patient took a longer time to recover. Endoscopic Spinal Surgery, which was introduced in Europe, US & other countries about five years ag...

Myth of 'female impotence' created to boost sales

...panies have created a disease out of female sexual disorders and are defining the condition in order to unleash...in 1998. Doctors however claim that female sexual disorders are being unduly medicalised and the coining of the term "female sexual dysfunction" makes an illnes...

Stroke also in list of common childhood ailments

...aried as infections, birth defects, blood-clotting disorders and birth trauma. Researchers claim that if risk factors of stroke in infants is identified, it would help in tackling the same problem in adults. They added that strokes in infants are a common cause of cerebral palsy, and that nearly 6 percent of c...

Viral encephalitis can cause more damage than already known

...tensive care, while four developed severe movement disorders liketremor, myoclonus (sudden jerking), chorea (writhing) and ballismus, a type ofviolent flinging movement.// While patients who suffered from these movementdisorders had to stay in intensive care for nearly 55 days, those not affectedneeded an aver...

Scientists open the book of life

...at cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other disorders and then to develop drugs that either prevent or treat the disorders....

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