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Intranasal Insulin Improves Memory in Normal Adults and in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease

Intranasal Insulin Improves Memory in Normal Adults and in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease

I am the scientist who invented the intranasal insulin treatment that the Obama administration and NIH just announced they would provide millions of dollars in funding to further test and develop for Alzheimer’s disease. I first developed (US Patent 5,624,898: issued [Read More]

Researcher Discovers Role of Gene Variant Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease in Damage to Brain Circulation, Function

Researcher Discovers Role of Gene Variant Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease in Damage to Brain Circulation, Function

A gene variant responsible for vascular damage to the brain is a promising new target for drug therapy to fight Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, according to research published on May 16 in Nature. Berislav Zlokovic, deputy director of the Zilkha [Read More]

Reduction of Excess Brain Activity Improves Memory in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment

Reduction of Excess Brain Activity Improves Memory in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment

Research published by Cell Press in the May 10th issue of the journal Neuron, describes a potential new therapeutic approach for improving memory and modifying disease progression in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment. The study finds that excess brain [Read More]

Deep Brain Stimulation May Hold Promise for Mild Alzheimer’s Disease

Deep Brain Stimulation May Hold Promise for Mild Alzheimer’s Disease

Small phase I study suggests ‘brain pacemaker’ could slow progression of AD A study on a handful of people with suspected mild Alzheimer’s disease (AD) suggests that a device that sends continuous electrical impulses to specific “memory” [Read More]

Single Neuron Observations Mark Steps in Alzheimer’s Disease

Single Neuron Observations Mark Steps in Alzheimer’s Disease

Multiple disease-related changes progress in parallel through distinct stages. Studying a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, neuroscientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen have observed correlations between increases in both soluble and plaque-forming [Read More]

Get Moving: Daily Exercise May Reduce Alzheimer’s Disease Risk at Any Age

Get Moving: Daily Exercise May Reduce Alzheimer’s Disease Risk at Any Age

Daily physical exercise may reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, even in people over the age of 80, according to a study published in the April 18, 2012, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. “The study showed that not [Read More]

New MRI Technique May Predict Progress of Dementias

New MRI Technique May Predict Progress of Dementias

Computer Modeling Supports Theory That Many Dementias Spread Like Prion Diseases. A new technique for analyzing brain images offers the possibility of using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to predict the rate of progression and physical path of many degenerative brain [Read More]

Pulse Pressure Elevation Could Presage Cerebrovascular Disease in Alzheimer’s Patients

Pulse Pressure Elevation Could Presage Cerebrovascular Disease in Alzheimer’s Patients

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System have shown that elevated pulse pressure may increase the risk of cerebrovascular disease (CVD) in older adults with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Their study has been [Read More]

Researchers Show How Embryonic Stem Cells Orchestrate Human Development

Researchers Show How Embryonic Stem Cells Orchestrate Human Development

Yale researchers show in detail how three genes within human embryonic stem cells regulate development, a finding that increases understanding of how to grow these cells for therapeutic purposes. This process, described in the April 6 issue of the journal Cell Stem Cell, is [Read More]

Former Professional Baseball Pitcher Now Keeps His Strike Zone in Proteins

Former Professional Baseball Pitcher Now Keeps His Strike Zone in Proteins

Perhaps no other biochemist in the world has his own baseball card, but University of Massachusetts Amherst doctoral student Elih M. Velazquez-Delgado, who gave up a pitching career for science, does. Now the only stats he cares about are experimental data, because, he [Read More]

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Stem Cell Research Could Benefit Fragile X Patients

Stem Cell Research Could Benefit Fragile X Patients

Stem Cell Research Paves way for Progress on Dealing with Fragile X Retardation Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have achieved, for the first time, the generation [Read More]

New Brain Map Developed By UGA Researchers

New Brain Map Developed By UGA Researchers

GPS for the brain: UGA researchers develop new brain map University of Georgia researchers have developed a map of the human brain that shows great promise as a new guide to the [Read More]

Von Economo Neurons Discovered In Macaque Monkey Insular Cortex

Von Economo Neurons Discovered In Macaque Monkey Insular Cortex

Rare Neurons Discovered in Monkey Brains Max Planck scientists discover brain cells in monkeys that may be linked to self-awareness and empathy in humans. The anterior insular [Read More]

Intranasal Insulin Improves Memory in Normal Adults and in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease

Intranasal Insulin Improves Memory in Normal Adults and in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease

I am the scientist who invented the intranasal insulin treatment that the Obama administration and NIH just announced they would provide millions of dollars in funding to further [Read More]

Oxytocin Could Help Improve Processing Social Information in Children With Autism

Oxytocin Could Help Improve Processing Social Information in Children With Autism

Oxytocin Improves Brain Function in Children with Autism Preliminary results from an ongoing, large-scale study by Yale School of Medicine researchers shows that oxytocin, a [Read More]

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