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Brain's Filing System Uncovered

...d recalls visual information will help us overcome impairments to these functions caused from brain damage and diseases, including strokes, Alzheimer’s disease, and schizophrenia,” Freedman says. Source-Newwise SRM...

IQ of Toddlers Affected by Excess weight

...later in life did not carry the risk for cognitive impairments because their brains are developed enough to fend off the damage. NLA...

Visual impairment risk in preterm infants with reduced occipital brain volumes

... visual performance, the study infants with visual impairments had significantly smaller inferior occipital region brain tissue volumes. Divyen K. Shah, MB, ChB, of Royal Children's Hospital, Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, who led the study says, 'This study is amongst the fir...

Obesity Takes its Toll on IQ of Toddlers

...later in life did not carry the risk for cognitive impairments because their brains are developed enough to fend off the damage. NLA...

Risk Factors Identified for Hearing Loss in Children with Bacterial Meningitis

...of patients. The resulting social and educational impairments can be devastating to the individual and society." J. Walter Kutz, M.D., and colleagues from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, reviewed the medical records of 171 children admitted to the Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, with a diagnosis of...

New Sleep Medication not Effective for Treating Abuse or Cognitive Impairment

...at blocks the formation of new memories; and motor impairments that may make driving dangerous and contribute to falls among older adults. In addition, those who use benzodiazepine receptor agonists long-term may experience withdrawal symptoms—including anxiety, irritability and even seizures—if they stop taking...

Brain Regions Do Not Communicate Efficiently in Adults with Autism

...uring blood flow. Post-mortem studies also suggest impairments in communication at the level of individual brain cells. This over and under abundance of neural connections suggests inefficient and inconsistent communication inside the brains of people with autism and may explain some of the deficits shown by p...

Virus Infections Could Affect Cognitive Impairment in Latter Adulthood

...ges. We hypothesize that mild memory and cognitive impairments of unknown etiology may, in fact, be due to accumulative loss of hippocampus function caused by repeated infection with common and widespread neurovirulent picornaviruses." The findings of the study are published in the journal Neurobiology of Dise...

3-D monitor vision test Developed for Children

...study involved 56 children, 38 with various visual impairments and 18 with normal vision. Study participants were seated on their mother's lap or alone with their heads stabilized by a chin and front rest. Unlike a number of other tests, this new 3D monitor stereotest does not require disassociating glasses that...

Chemo drugs cause cognitive decline in breast cancer patients

... and know that if they experience mild to moderate impairments in their cognitive functions, this level of change is potentially manageable." While there is growing evidence from studies of cancer patients on chemotherapy that the chemobrain effect does exist, many of the studies have suffered from methodologi...

Memory Improves After Sleep Apnea Therapy

...ed, we may have the ability to reverse some of the impairments by providing effective and consistent use of CPAP treatment.” Dr. Aloia and colleagues examined the degree to which varying levels of CPAP adherence improved memory in 58 memory-impaired patients with clinically diagnosed OSA. All patients underwen...

Watching With Intent to Repeat Ignites Key Learning Area of Brain

...tating rehabilitation of individuals with movement impairments or paralyses.” Soure-Newswise SRM...

Physicians Enlisted in Efforts to Keep Demented Drivers Off the Road

...who may be impaired by dementia or other cognitive impairments linked to aging//. Researchers at the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and elsewhere have developed a three-hour workshop that trains health care providers to identify potentially u...

'Picture-To-Speech' Projects Help Disabled Speak

...s, the handheld innovation helps those with speech impairments express their needs in such everyday tasks as ordering food or asking for medical attention from an archive of commonly-used phrases and graphics. The initiative is spearheaded by the Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore (MINDS). "...

Cocaine's Use During Pregnancy May Cause Lasting Cellular Effects

...pregnancy can cause subtle but disabling cognitive impairments -- attention deficits, learning disabilities and emotional problems //– Says a recent study by investigators. The studty Investigators at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development may help explain the long-term behavioral and ...

Early Treatment May Thwart Mad Cow-Type Disease

...damage. "Remarkably, these behavioral and synaptic impairments recover when (normal prion protein) is depleted, in parallel with reversal of spongiosis," the team reports. "These data now lead to the hope that early intervention in human prion disease will not only halt clinical progression but allow reversal...

Antidepressants Improve Post-Stroke Mental Abilities

...ur usual route home. People with stroke often show impairments in executive function and may not be able to respond well to non-routine situations. This impairment may affect rehabilitation efforts. The UI team included Kenji Narushima, M.D, Ph.D., UI resident physician in psychiatry, who contributed signific...

New Study Suggests Special Cocoa may Lead to Sustained Improvement in Blood Vessel Function

...a beverage daily may have the potential to reverse impairments in the functioning of blood vessels//, according t...l days - even to the point of apparent reversal of impairments in blood vessel function. While this study is very promising, the researchers do indicate that large...

Parents Should Do Their Homework to Aid Autistic Child's Education

...ch often are characterized by social and cognitive impairments as well as severe communication difficulties. "It's important for parents, educators and clinicians to keep an overview of how different intervention and treatment programs are affecting the child," he said. "There is no tried and true method. Educ...

Asthma Incidence Shows a 50 Percent Increase in Fat People

...besity in the absence of asthma causes physiologic impairments in lung function, including reduction in lung volume, chest wall restriction and an increase in the oxygen cost of breathing. It also contributes to various other conditions including gastroesophageal reflux and sleep apnea. These difficulties can re...

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