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Resolving Autism

...cits in higher-order thinking abilities, including impairments involving language, working memory, and voluntary response inhibition. These problems lead to the typical symptoms of the disease, which is characterized by inflexibility, the tendency to insist on adhering to strict rules, and difficulty adapting to...

Low Birth Weight infants could have Problems in the Future

...lence of neurological, behavioral and intellectual impairments of school age children who were born in the early era of neonatal intensive care. These studies suggest these children are likely to have a lower IQ and lower academic achievement scores than children born at a normal weight. Researchers from Canad...

Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy Not Safe

...nking heavily during pregnancy could lead to major impairments in growth, behavior, and cognitive function in children. However the recent study shows that even small amounts of alcohol during pregnancy can have a significant impact on child development. The exposure to alcohol is also found to causes growth de...

Drug for osteoporosis can reduce memory loss in elderly women

...r three years, all women were tested for cognitive impairments like loss of memory etc. and dementia, by dementia specialists and had undergone brain scans and laboratory tests to find out the symptoms of cognitive disability. Compared to those who took placebo, women who received 120 mg daily of the drug raloxi...

Alcohol linked to loss of memory

...The results also show that the nature of cognitive impairments is not related to any sort of damages that happen due to nutritional deficits or neurological changes. The research proves that alcohol based cognitive damages are due to the alcohol causing neuro-chemical changes in the brain that affect the seat o...

Research Identifies The Causes Of Snoring

...nd/or subjective nasal breathing impairment, these impairments were only significant when associated with the loud snoring group, which implies that obstacles in the nose are not responsible for snoring but may amplify the loudness. Source: Newswise...

Medulloblastoma Irradiation In Young Children Found To Impair IQ And Reading Skills

... It is believed that the above effect is caused by impairments of the fundamental cognitive processes that are critical to the early development of these skills in a child. The investigators are now using results of this study to identify and help children in need of special training to enhance their cognitive f...

MS Patients Improve With Telephone Therapy

...no longer evident. The sample of MS patients had impairments that affected their ability to engage in social roles, as evidenced by the assessed functional impairment and the fact that 74 percent of the sample was not in the workforce. The use of telephone-administered therapies may also overcome various other...

Lead exposure plus high blood pressure Leads to impaired mental ability

...d hypertension have been associated with cognitive impairments in older adults. The study indicates that the interaction between lead exposures early in life combined with high blood pressure in working age adults may lead to diminishing cognitive abilities in later life. To determine cognitive function, resea...

Diagnosis of Alzheimer's years before clinical signs emerge

...everal others started to suffer from the cognitive impairments that precede full blown Alzheimers. When Jagust lo... 60 who went on to develop Alzheimers or cognitive impairments in the two years of the study. The subjects, aged around 70, were all healthy at the start of the pr...

Heart Functions Being Redefined By Researchers

...that were indeed the case, methods to prevent such impairments will also be studied....

Visually impaired prefer specially enhanced TV

...He sees hundreds of patients suffering from vision impairments caused by diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic retinopathy and other diseases that impair the central vision. AMD destroys the tiny central part of the retina called the macula. This makes activities such as reading, driv...

More The Usage More The Growth In The Adult Brain.

...n is increased. Patient suffering from spinal cord impairments can be treated using dendritic growth therapy. The researchers identified the growth of dendrites using a technique called two photon imaging. They followed the growth of neurons in the surface layers of the visual cortex in mice. So far researcher...

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center To Study Ways To Prevent 'Chemo Brain'

...mpairment that persists following treatment. These impairments have been reported across a range of cancer types and chemotherapy agents," said Brown. The study will be for duration of six months and participants will have to visit the Vanderbilt University Medical Center around three times. They will be placed ...

Teenagers Get Hooked To Ecstasy

...anic attacks, depression, paranoia and significant impairments in visual and verbal memory affecting other cognitive functions, such as the ability to reason or sustain attention. Hence it is essential that as adults we have to strive to give kids the information and support they need to stay drug-free. <br...

Erectile Dysfunction Linked with Smoking and Obesity – Study Report

...sks associated with erectile dysfunction and other impairments among men//. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) revealed a positive correlation of erectile dysfunction with obesity and smoking habit whereas a negative correlation with regular physical activity and healthy lifestyle. A p...

Bush Administration to Exempt Medicaid Recipients on Proof of Citizenship

... retardation, Alzheimer's disease and other mental impairments to produce the documents needed to comply. According to the law, anyone who has Medicaid coverage or applies for it must present "documentary evidence of citizenship."Earllier, over 40 states had accepted the applicants' written statements as proof...

Parental Role In Embryo-Selection Urged

... passed on to their children, if they regard these impairments as "life-enhancing". The study titled ‘Choosing the Genes for Future Children’ was commissioned by the New Zealand Law Foundation and is an offshoot of the Human Genome Research Project headed by Mark Henaghan, dean of. Otago University law school....

'Bottled' Contamination And a Brewing Battle

...s states. These toxins could cause severe physical impairments and mental deformities among the exposed population. It is therefore imperative that we, as individuals and as global citizens, should bear in mind, that groundwater is an essential resource highly susceptible to contamination. The sensible solutio...

MRI Scans in Premature Infants Can Predict Future Developmental Delays

...motor delays, cerebral palsy, or hearing or visual impairments that may be visible by age 2. The researchers studied 167 preterm infants in New Zealand and Australia and at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. Inder said the findings are a breakthrough, because previous technology – cranial ultrasounds – did not ...

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