X-rays may show way to better Alzheimer's drugs
...e disorder causing memory loss and other cognitive deficits in roughly 10 percent of the elderly. One of its pathological hallmarks is the deterioration of nerve cells releasing acetylcholine a neurotransmitter that helps ferry messages in the form of nerve impulses between brain cells. The acetylcholine sh...This is your adolescent brain on alcohol
... have documented what is called neuropsychological deficits -- brain damage -- in adult heavy drinkers. Only...t, after isolating the individuals' areas of brain deficits due to heavy drinking, they are given specific tasks that will 'work' that area, improving through r...Playing the odds: Can you stop abusing alcohol at 10 years and be OK?
...threshold," suggesting thatneuropsychological (NP) deficits or damage were detectable only if chronic alcohol ...lt of chronic or long-term, heavy drinking. These deficits can occurin the individual's ability to reason (both verbally and nonverbally), memory and learning ......udy of a treatment aimed at reversing neurological deficits from stroke. Dr. Kondziolka's study involve...were involved. All patients had stable neurologic deficits at least two months prior to implantation. The first four patients were treated with two million ...Northwestern researchers clone gene responsible for inner ear motor
...es are severely hard of hearing, and many of these deficits are related to the loss of outer hair cell function. In addition to the health implications of the prestin discovery, these tiny biocompatible motors could be a boon to the developing nanotechnology field. "This is a landmark study," said Mario R...Alcohol and thiamine deficiency together: a dangerous combination?
...lar havoc on the brain, causing a wide spectrum of deficits in cognition, behavior, and motor coordination. What researchers now suspect, as noted in a recent study in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research , is that chronic alcohol consumption and thiamine deficiency combined may have a synergistic a...Cocaine use while pregnant may cause ADHD
...em to affect most areas of cognitive function, the deficits in attention are consistent and lasting -- seen in adult animals long past the period of exposure. In humans, this type of dysfunction could significantly impact the lives of affected children, as seen in cases of attention deficit hyperactivity diso...Fewer calories linked to healthier brains in old age
...des new insight into the cognitive and motor skill deficits that occur with age. The results may also help to explain the basis of common neurological disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. Cheol-Koo Lee, Richard Weindruch and Tomas A. Prolla, all of UW-Madison, profiled the action of 6,347 g...Study links impulsive violence with brain's inability to regulate emotion
...s. While the research points to emotion regulation deficits as a "smoking gun" in impulsive violence, Davidson cautions that science is a long way from developing any preventive strategy for at-risk populations. Davidson's future studies will explore this complex brain process in much greater detail, through ...Northwestern researchers map gene mutation that makes mice deaf and causes them to dance
...in the espin gene can give rise to such pronounced deficits at the behavioral level," Bartles said. Bartles and his laboratory team discovered espins several years ago, first in intercellular junctions in the testis and later in the kidney and intestine. "Because espins were originally discovered in these org...Aging alters sleep and hormone levels sooner than expected
... stress-response system, has been linked to memory deficits and insulin resistance, a risk factor for diabetes. Elevated evening cortisol levels could also cause additional sleep loss. "Our data support the concept that decreased sleep quality contributes to the wear and tear resulting from overactivity of ...... disease from progressing and reversing functional deficits or symptoms associated with the disease in monkeys displaying early signs of Parkinson's disease. Results of the research are published in the Oct. 27 issue of the journal Science. Rush scientists used a special virus (lenti-GDNF), which was dev...Why some people just can't seem to pay attention
...sociated with neuropsychological deficits. These deficits include an inability to maintain attention. A re...of course possible that individuals with attention deficits are more prone to an early onset of drinking. This is one of the reasons that we are going to apply...How sensitive is your brain to alcohol-induced damage?
...common ground' was the relation of alcohol-induced deficits in central nervous function to addiction and recovery. "Data indicates that risk factors for alcoholism include heavy binge drinking, genetics and adolescent drinking," said Crews. "These may also be risk factors for increased brain damage." Th...Rat study shows high-fat diet impairs concentration and memory
...administration clearly helps overcome those memory deficits associated with hippocampal function, this is not a long-term solution," cautions Dr. Winocur. "We should not fool ourselves into thinking that glucose from a glass of orange juice is all we need to protect our brains from clogging up from a high-fat...Genetic mutation causes cardiac conduction disease
...through. "In a sense, the mutation causes balanced deficits that mostly cancel each other out," Balser said. "So what you end up with is a very slight net decrease in sodium channel function. That slows conduction by about 10 to 15 percent, enough to slow the heart rate, but not enough to cause tachyarrhyth...Electrophysiological differences of individuals at high risk for alcoholism
...ory mechanisms. "We have been studying brain deficits in chronic alcoholics for many years using brain w...aper's authors. "We have found that some of these deficits do not recover with prolonged abstinence from alcohol. Our studies of high-risk children of alcohol...Sleeping dogs lend a paw to narcoleptics
...ed hypocretin/orexin. Narcolepsy correlates with deficits in hypocretin cells or in the receptors that detect hypocretin (called Hcrtr2). In the current study, Mignot and colleagues examine the Hcrtr2 gene in narcoleptic poodles, Labradors, Dachshunds, and Dobermans. The researchers describe a novel, natu...Older fathers more likely to have children with schizophrenia
...te and reproduce, presumably because of the social deficits in the illness, so evolution would normally tend to decrease the proportion of individuals with the disease, unless new cases kept arising through new mutations. A related fact is that schizophrenia's incidence is strikingly consistent across human p...Do the effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol differ by culture?
... is called "intellectual abilities." "Having deficits in so-called 'higher order cognitive-motor skills,'" said Savage, "means that - as they mature - these children will have an increasingly more difficult time succeeding in life. As adults, this will severely limit their prospects to advance, no matt...