Brain research reveals a correlation between amount of education and dementia.
Correlating data from 588 patients diagnosed with frontotemporal lobe degeneration (FTLD), researchers found that subjects with professions which related highly for verbal skills had greater tissue loss on the right hand side of the brain. By contrast, those whose professions required less aptitude for verbal skills, for example flight engineers, had more tissue damage to the left hand side of the brain.
A study on the effects of shunt operations to treat dementia caused by white matter changes and hydrocephalus shows brain shunt operations improved performance in mental functions and walking.
Alzheimer’s disease research has lead to important findings involving the tau gene and the possibility of reversing the disease’s progression....
Research into amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, has lead to new information about neuronal loss...
This is a Neuroscience News book review of Neurobehavioral Anatomy, Third Edition by Christopher M. Filley. Lately, neuroscience anatomy books...
It’s something we just accept: the fact that the older we get, the more difficulty we seem to have remembering...
In what they are calling a new direction in the study of Alzheimer’s disease, UC Santa Barbara scientists have made...
With the novel use of a technique that uses light to control brain cells, Stanford University researchers have shown that...
A new study suggests smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes and being overweight in middle age may cause brain shrinkage and...
A modified form of the enzyme Cdk5 is elevated in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease patients, where it triggers damage...
Researchers discover common cause of all forms of ALS. The underlying disease process of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS and Lou Gehrig’s disease), a fatal neurodegenerative disease that paralyzes its victims, has long eluded scientists and prevented development of effective therapies. Scientists weren’t even sure all its forms actually converged into a common disease process.
