Posts Tagged ‘Health’
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]
Let There Be Light: It’s Good for Our Brains
EPFL scientists have proven that light intensity influences our cognitive performance and how alert we feel, and that these positive effects last until early evening. Tests conducted in EPFL’s Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO) have confirmed the [Read More]
Maternal Antibodies to Gluten Linked to Schizophrenia Risk in Children
Babies born to women with sensitivity to gluten appear to be at increased risk for certain psychiatric disorders later in life, according to research by scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore. The team’s findings, [Read More]
Transplanted Gene-Modified Blood Stem Cells Protect Brain Cancer Patients from Toxic Side Effects of Chemotherapy
Study is first to show feasibility and efficacy of a new use for autologous stem cell transplant. For the first time, scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have transplanted brain cancer patients’ own gene-modified blood stem cells in order to protect their [Read More]
Researchers Discover a New Family of Key Mitochondrial Proteins for the Function and Variability of the Brain
This family comprises a cluster of six genes that may be altered in neurological conditions, such as Parkinson’s and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. A team headed by Eduardo Soriano at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) has published a study in Nature [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]
New Embryonic Stem Cell Line Will Aid Research on Nerve Condition
Second U-M stem cell line now publicly available to help researchers find treatments for nerve condition. Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease line made from a never-frozen donated embryo. The University of Michigan’s second human embryonic stem cell line has just been placed on [Read More]
Migraine Patients Find Pain Relief in Electrical Brain Stimulation
Chronic migraine sufferers saw significant pain relief after four weeks of electrical brain stimulation in the part of the brain responsible for voluntary movement, the motor cortex, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, [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]
