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Diabetes May Bring You A Step Closer To Alzheimer’s Diseas

... amnestic mild cognitive impairment, which affects memory more significantly than non-amnestic mild cognitive impairment-is increasingly recognized as a transitional state between normal functioning and Alzheimer's disease. José A. Luchsinger, M.D., and colleagues at Columbia University Medical Center, Ne...

Glucose Causes Death of Brain Cells in Rodents Following Hypoglycemic Coma

...campus and cerebral cortex, which are essential to memory and cognition. 'This study tells us for the first time that, in rats, the brain damage occurs not during the coma, but after it, when we give them glucose and their blood glucose levels return to normal,' says principal investigator Raymond A. Swan...

Canadian Researchers Raise Hopes of Treatment for Memory Loss

...unprecedented treatments for people suffering from memory loss and dementia, but similar drugs might also improve the memory performance of healthy people. The researchers studied an unusual gene that normally produces a p...

Research Explains How Lead Exposure Produces Learning Deficits

...rowing off of a tree limb—which allow learning and memory to take place. The length of the neuronal processes, called dendrites, in lead-exposed rats were shorter and twisted when compared to the long and relatively straight dendrites in neurons found in control rats. “The fewer connections between neuron...

Research to Protect Accident Victims from Epilepsy

...ith the classic jerking seizures, but instead with memory loss, attention problems and the like. Doctors could mistakenly attribute such subtle symptoms to the original brain injury, post-traumatic stress or some other factor. So epilepsy becomes inevitable. Now researchers are trying to figure out whethe...

Testosterone-based Cream may Help Prevent Alzheimer's

..., drugs can delay the progress of symptoms such as memory loss and the erosion of the ability to do everyday...ir mood. However the gel did not appear to improve memory or other mental skills. Source-IANS/L...

Testosterone-based Cream may Help Prevent Alzheimer's

..., drugs can delay the progress of symptoms such as memory loss and the erosion of the ability to do everyday...ir mood. However the gel did not appear to improve memory or other mental skills. Source-IANS...

Emergency Department Strain As Ice Problems Grows

...fects, including depression,anxiety, psychosis and memory disturbance," she says.In an accompanying editorial, Dr Gordian Fulde and Dr Alex Wodak of St Vincent's Hospital,Sydney, support the view that amphetamine-related presentations are a great burden on the healthcare system and believe there is a pressi...

Date Rape Drug Seized at Chennai Airport

...ally affectionate way. They will have little or no memory of what happens while the drug is active in their system. Without any memory of the actual events, they are often unaware that they have even been raped. And even if they are aw...

Eat Berries, Prevent Colon Cancer

...ies also have shown promise for protecting against memory loss and heart disease. In general, a diet rich in fruits, vegetables and grain is recommended by health experts for the prevention of colon cancer. Funding for this study was provided by the National Cancer Institute. Source-Eurekalert PI...

Socialization may Help to Avoid Alzheimer’

... brain disorder that gradually destroys a person's memory and ability to reason and make judgments. David Bennett and other researchers from the Rush University Medical Center studied 823 people in and around Chicago with an average age of about 80, none of who had dementia at the start of the study, repo...

Memory Loss Linked To Alcohol Abuse

...hol and nicotine are reported to cause significant memory loss in young age which could extend into adulthoo...ment. This may result in more severe problems with memory later in life. Frank Soodeen spokesman from Alcohol Concern said that parents need to be more resp...

Losing Sleep Over Sleep Inducing Drugs

...in their sleep after they woke up. But they had no memory of carrying out these activities. An official from FDA says these are rare incidents but there could more cases than are reported. He also said that if patients conformed to the directions given in the drugs, such incidents can be avoided. FDA has ...

FDA Requests Label Change for All Sleep Disorder Drug Products

... ingestion of a sedative-hypnotic product, with no memory of the event. "There are a number of prescription sleep aids available that are well-tolerated and effective for many people," said Steven Galson, M.D., MPH, director of FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "However, after reviewing the a...

‘Generalist' Genes Linked to a Variety of Learning Disorder

... language and math disorders, and even spatial and memory functions. Environment does play a role in learning disorders, but more so in determining what type of learning disorder may develop. “Because we now know that environmental factors are ‘specialists’, these findings have far-reaching implications f...

Making Sense of the World Through a Cochlear Implant

...a of the brain also responsible for verbal working memory – but only when the sentence is predictable. 'In a noisy environment, when we hear speech that appears to be predictable, it seems that more regions of the brain are engaged,' explains Dr Jonas Obleser, who did the research whilst based at the Insti...

New Reason to Hit the Gym: Fighting Memory Loss

...ch has shown that people who exercise do better on memory tests. Now a new study explains specifically what ... dentate gyrus, which underlies normal age-related memory decline that begins around age 30 for most adults. This finding is significant because it was accom...

Golfer Plans ‘lasting Legacy’ for Mothr

...will be named the Elizabeth Montgomerie Center, in memory of the golfer's mother, who died from the disease in 1991.Montgomerie was very close to his mother who incidentally, taught him how to play golf. The partnership was made known at a special event held by the Roy Castle Foundation to recognize the...

Sleeping Pills can Sometimes Cause 'sleep-driving' and Allergic Reactions - FDA

...drive cars when not fully awake. They may have no memory of having taken a tablet at all. Also they could be making phone calls or fixing and eating food even while still asleep, not realizing that are yet to wake up. Still worse, those who consume such pills could be subject to life-threatening alle...

Wiping Out Memories Selectively, is Possible Now

...hey have been able// to wipe out a single specific memory from brains of rats using a drug, leaving all othe...d be possible to stop the transfer of one specific memory without affecting others, and they seem to have succeeded. Detailing their findings, the team has...

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