Mental declines can be reversed - report shows
...e that people do on regular basis as part of their daily lives, said Foth, whose paper with Thompson is published this month in Educational Gerontology. Examples of "ecologically valid" activities that can improve mental capacity include reading, traveling, memorizing poetry, playing card games, doing cros...Neurologix announces positive results of gene therapy clinical trial in Parkinson's disease
...provement in the UPDRS score. Also, activities of daily living (ADL), another standard measure of Parkinson's severity which is recorded by the patients themselves, showed a strong trend toward statistical improvement(p= .06). In addition, fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET scans at one year revealed that the t...Seaweed could make junk food healthier
...uit and vegetables, yet to consume the recommended daily amount of fibre they would have to eat a lot of these types of foods. "We believe it's hard to change people's habits and that the most practical solution is to improve the food they do eat. With a burger, for example, you would simply remove some o...Temperature regulates circadian clock in zebrafish
...pond to light cycles, much less is known about how daily temperature cycles affect the clock's timing mechanism in vertebrates. In the open-access journal PLoS Biology , Kajori Lahiri, Nicholas Foulkes, and their colleagues study temperature related responses at the genetic and molecular level in zebrafi...CU virologist finds contagious equine flu in dogs
...gs have the most intimate contact with humans on a daily basis, so the potential for human infection has to be in the back of our minds," said Ed Dubovi, director of the virology center at Cornell's Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory, who isolated the virus from the University of Florida samples. Still, ...UNC computer, marine scientists collaborate to predict flow of toxic waters from Katrina
...nd other weather factors. Their goal is to provide daily forecasts of coastal circulation and pollutant concentrations in the Katrina-affected region, information that will be vital as cleanup efforts and recovery continue. The two also have extended their work with RENCI, Reed and colleagues to analyze va...Nocturnal dialysis improves heart disease in patients with end-stage kidney failure
...injury to help repair the damage which occurs on a daily basis," Chan explained, adding that depletion or reduced function of these cells likely contributes to blood vessel disease. "If we can manipulate EPCs to directly target vascular and cardiac injury, we may unlock an important mechanism by which we ...Cerebellum found to be important in cognition and behavior
...th cerebellar injury had functional limitations in daily living, communication, and socialization skills, compared with only 3 percent of controls. Sixty-one percent, versus 3 percent of controls, had global developmental delays. Deficits included delays in both expressive and receptive language, visual re...Groundwater sampling goes tubular
...site remedial investigations and EPA total maximum daily load of groundwater influx to streams and lakes, Peterson said. Installations also can be adapted to incorporate in situ instrumentation for continuous monitoring of conditions....Satellite technology allows scientists to track warm sharks in cold polar seas
...s anyone with Internet access to track the sharks' daily migration in near-real time on a web browser: http://www.toppcensus.org . "I like to check on the position of the sharks with my coffee every morning," says Block, the Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Professor in Marine Sciences at Stanford's Hopkins ...Prozac improves learning and memory in fatal brain disease
...he Huntington's gene and control mice were treated daily with either fluoxetine or saline. The mice were given cognitive tests to perform to determine the behavioural effects of the drug. The scientists expected fluoxetine to improve the depressive-like symptoms, which they have shown for the first time i...NSF awards 19 new projects to better undestand genetic processes in plants of economic importance
...osion and also supply more than 5,000 items in our daily lives--from fuels and paper to fruit and medicines. Studying trees has challenged researchers, in part because of the plants' large sizes and long life cycles. Three projects are developing and using genomic tools to better understand tree metabolis...UCI nurses receive $2.7 million to study exercise and impact on growth in premature babies
...bies." As part of the study, nurses will perform daily range of motion exercises to the arm and leg joints of about 200 premature infants for four weeks. A series of tests will be performed to monitor progress, including blood tests to measure growth hormones and ultrasounds to evaluate bone density. In......athering samples. Team members will also be filing daily dispatches from the ship at www.at-sea.org.One of the expedition's goals is to "ground truth," or verify, a newly produced high-resolution multibeam sonar map of the region, which offers unprecedented resolution to reveal bottom features that were pr...Good gnus: Ruminating on conservation in Africa 'til the cows come home
...ng, insightful, practical, and applicable to their daily work," notes Dr. Steve Osofsky, Senior Policy Advisor for Wildlife Health for the Wildlife Conservation Society, long-time member of the World Conservation Union's Veterinary Specialist Group, and the book's editor. "As socioeconomic progress demands...RSRF-funded research yields novel function for Rett syndrome gene
... requiring maximum assistance with every aspect of daily living. There is no cure. RTT is caused by mutations in a gene (MECP2) that regulates expression of other genes. Genes are made up of long stretches of nucleotide bases that are divided into exons (sequences that code for protein) and introns (non-co...To stem disease, keep cats indoors, stop feeding strays, scientist urges
...ygiene with the litter box and washing hands after daily cleanings, he added. Infected mice, he noted, show altered behavior, including being less aware of cats in an area, leaving the mice open to predation that renews the parasite's life cycle. Mice may not be the only creatures susceptible to behavioral...Mental stimulation through play has beneficial effect on children with stunted growth
...uraged and taught to play with their children on a daily basis in way to promote development. The food supplement comprised of 1kg of milk-based formula per week. The investigators found that both interventions improved the development of the children. In the latest study the researchers followed-up the g...Dietary fat intake linked to dry eye syndrome in women
...articipating in other vision-related activities of daily life are difficult or impossible. In this study, the researchers report the following specific findings: Women with the highest levels of omega 3 in their diets reduced their risk of dry eye syndrome by 20 percent compared to women with the lowe...Anti-cold, anti-flu product cuts recurrent colds by more than half, study shows
...redy. "For example, in participants taking COLD-fX daily for prevention, recurrent infections were reduced by more than half. In addition, there was a 31% reduction in the severity of their symptoms." CV Technologies Inc. CEO and Chief Scientific Officer and co-discoverer of COLD-fX, Dr. Jacqueline Shan ...