Posts Tagged ‘cogntive decline’
Sugar Makes You Stupid: Study Shows High Fructose Diet Sabotages Learning and Memory
This is your brain on sugar: UCLA study shows high-fructose diet sabotages learning, memory. Attention, college students cramming between midterms and finals: Binging on soda and sweets for as little as six weeks may make you stupid. A new UCLA rat study is the first to [Read More]
Smoked Cannabis Reduces Some Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis
Controlled trial shows improved spasticity, reduced pain after smoking medical marijuana. A clinical study of 30 adult patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has shown that smoked cannabis may be an effective [Read More]
Female and Younger Athletes Take Longer to Overcome Concussions
New research out of Michigan State University reveals female athletes and younger athletes take longer to recover from concussions, findings that call for physicians and athletic trainers to take sex and age into account when dealing with the injury. The study, led by [Read More]
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]
Awake Mental Replay of Past Experiences Critical for Learning
Blocking it stumps memory-guided decision-making in rats – NIH-funded study Awake mental replay of past experiences is essential for making informed choices, suggests a study in rats. Without it, the animals’ memory-based decision-making faltered, say scientists [Read More]
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
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
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
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]
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]
