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Tag: "memory" at medical news

Kill Two Birds With One Stone!

...able to delay or effectively alleviate symptoms of memory deterioration or dementia,' said Pasinetti. Surely, this is an area which needs to be explored further, to draw additional benefits from existing cures....

Gender Might Have a Say in How Your Child Speaks

...ow that women tend to be better than men at verbal memory tasks, such as remembering word lists, and that th...on declarative memory. Included within declarative memory is a “mental lexicon” in which word forms are memorized and remembered. The grammatical rules that a...

Memory Complaints Are Associated With Alzheimer's Disease

Complaints about memory could offer an early warning system for Alzheimer ...earchers have found// that having complaints about memory problems is associated with changes in the brain related to Alzheimer's disease. Their findings were...

Painkillers may Reduce Effectiveness of Vaccines

...odies. B cells also serve as the immune system's memory for future protection against the illness. But Richard P. Phipps and colleagues at University of Rochester discovered that when a person took painkillers, the drug also reduces the ability of B cells to make antibodies. Their findings were based ...

Cancer Drugs Damage Brain Cells

...nths have elapsed following treatment, complain of memory loss, and problems related to comprehension, concentration and certain other mental aptitudes. The research was led by Mark Noble, a professor of Neurobiology, from the University of Rochester, New York. He studied healthy brain cells after giving t...

After Ecstasy Comes the Pain… WARNING

... that first time ecstasy users may suffer impaired memory and damage //to the brain, due to reduced blood flow in certain areas of the brain. 'We do not know if these effects are transient or permanent,' said, Maartje de Win at the University of Amsterdam, who led the study. 'Therefore, we cannot conclude...

Brain Responds Better to Name Brands

...ed higher levels of activation in areas of working memory and negative emotional response. Dr. Born believes that this research will be used as a benchmark to improve the understanding of the processing of brand-related information. “The vision of this research is to better understand the needs of peop...

After Effects Of Chemotherapy Will Wane In Few Years :Says Research

...eatment. Many patients complain of// unprecedented memory loss or alterations in abilities pertaining to learning, judgement and comprehension .This seemingly 'fuzzy' experience is also termed as 'chemobrain' in medical jargon. New research has found that these uncomfortable symptoms that trouble a cancer ...

Settlers Suffered from Nightmares, Hypersensitivity in Eve of Disengagement

...spondents reported difficulty in concentration and memory and 81% reported that the mere thought of the disengagement plan causes them anxiety and emotional stress. Prof. Steven Hobfoll and Dr. Daphna Canetti-Nisim who studied the 'psychological and political effects of the disengagement plan on the settle...

Memory And Vascular Diseases Are Linked

...gh University has come up with a finding that poor memory and heart attacks may be linked. She surveyed the ...e says that those with slower reaction times, poor memory and poor visual-spatial perception had a greater chance of developing a cardiovascular disease. “One...

Alzheimer’s risk pronounced with reduced levels of brain oxyge

...d elapsed, the researchers subjected the mice to a memory test and the timing was recorded. The finding revealed that the mice which had spent a month in a reduced oxygen environment did not perform well in the test. Further, the mice also portrayed more amyloid beta plaque in their brains, a significant s...

Hormone Therapy May Improve the Trip Down Memory Lane

Many women experience declines in their memory during and after menopause, a change thought to be...at hormone therapy might help women retain certain memory functions. In a study in the new issue of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, they r...

Hope for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease

...pital found one in five people over 65 without any memory problems had early signs of Alzheimer's. They had traces of a protein called amyloid in their brains, thought to cause Alzheimer's disease. 'This is quite exciting because it means that we are picking up the disease before there is damage done to t...

Pregabalin Proves Durable Pain Relief Option for Fibromyalgia

...en associated with fatigue, sleep disturbances and memory problems. Unfortunately, to date, no FDA-approved treatment has been available for this syndrome. Researchers enrolled 1,051 participants in a six-week program of 300, 450 or 600 mg daily doses of pregabalin to optimize pain control and medication...

Memories Linked To Their Packaging In The Brain

... senior author of the paper. 'You can't get out of memory what you didn't put into it. It is not possible to... binding together all the features of a particular memory so that contextual details, as well as more central aspects of the event such as the identity of the...

Scientists suggest a new ‘brain wave’ for sound sleep and improved memoy

...uch hope for treatment of behavioral disorders and memory loss related disorders linked to old age and sleep... only way to beat a fevered brain. So to run down memory lane you need a shock and sound snooze! <B...

Low Iron levels in infants lead to brain defects

...er the levels of iron; the worse are the learning, memory and thinking functions. "If direct and indirect ...ginning of the study. Their learning, thinking and memory functions were monitored by regular, age-appropriate cognitive tests. Though, the iron deficiency in...

Improved memory with mild electric stimulation

...made to learn a list of paired words in a standard memory test before they slept. Their brain was stimulated... thought and spatial reasoning. In the study, no memory enhancement was noticed when current applied was of a different frequency or was applied at a differ...

PM promises forward-looking IT, electronics policy soon

...nics, Manmohan Singh termed it as a tribute to the memory of Rajiv Gandhi, who was assassinated in this town on May 21, 1991, when he was campaigning during the general election.Expressing happiness that Sriperumbudur was emerging as the hardware capital of India with several world-class electronic hardware...

A 100 years after the first diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

...currently affected by AD, which gradually destroys memory and the ability to learn, reason, make judgments and communicate. "The Yerkes Research Center has developed four major areas of Alzheimer's research critical to identifying preventions and treatments to slow the progression or stop the onset of thi...

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