Antioxidants have no effect on Lou Gehrig's disease
...t causes deterioration of motor nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Although researchers are still unsure about the exact causes of the disease, some have suggested that nerve cells in ALS patients are damaged by the accumulation of "free radicals," highly active oxygen particles that bombard and eve...Moderate alcohol intake may reduce risk of dementia in older women
...oblems are due to strokes and blood vessels in the brain becoming blocked, and alcohol may reduce the development of blood clots and increase blood flow, thereby improving cognition." Espeland said alcohol also tends to increase levels of high-density lipoprotein, or "good" cholesterol, which might also re...Severity of liver disease not a reliable indicator of quality of life
...ons such as hepatic encephalopathy (which involves brain damage, personality changes, and intellectual impairment) and ascites (an accumulation of excess fluid in the abdomen), are not accounted for in the MELD score. MELD is now used in place of the Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) model, which does take into ac...Antibody treatment partially reverses nerve damage in Alzheimer disease
...own that an antibody treatment administered to the brain surface in mice with Alzheimer disease is capable ...up of amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) in areas of the brain responsible for memory and cognition. While several approaches to decreasing Abeta production or inc...JCI table of contents, January 20 2005
...own that an antibody treatment administered to the brain surface in mice with Alzheimer disease is capable ...up of amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) in areas of the brain responsible for memory and cognition. While several approaches to decreasing Abeta production or inc...Intellect linked to risk of suicide in young men
...e possible explanation could be that influences on brain development during childhood also increase an individual's susceptibility to mental illness and hence suicide. Alternatively, it may be due to an individual's ability to solve problems in times of crisis or maladjustment in childhood, they conclude....Two minutes of magnetic stimulation can change your brain for an hour
...inutes is all it takes to 'knock out' bits of your brain for an hour, according to a new study by a Univers...ered ways to improve TMS to produce effects on the brain that last for more than an hour after only 40 seconds of stimulation. Longer-lasting effects will en...Discovery of pathway in learning impairment caused by liver disease may lead to drug treatment
...imes causes hepatic encephalopathy, which involves brain damage, personality changes, and intellectual impa... in the glutamate-nitric oxide-cGMP pathway in the brain and that administering sildenafil to increase cGMP would restore learning ability. Sildenafil, commo...Diet, exercise, stimulating environment helps old dogs learn
...x cognitive strategies and have a more complicated brain structure than many other animals. Dogs also proce...as this gives us new ways to think about the aging brain and what we can do to keep it intact." For the study, the researchers divided 48 older beagles (ages...Spinal repair pioneer to speak in NY on 20th Jan
...connection of the nerve fibres travelling from the brain down to the spinal cord causes paralysis, loss of ...Disconnection of nerve fibres travelling up to the brain causes loss of sensation. "When a nerve fibre is severed it attempts to regrow, like the sprouts a...Controversial drug shown to act on brain protein to cut alcohol use
...mined that it does so by increasing the level of a brain protein known as glial cell line-derived neurotrop...f The Journal of Neuroscience. "By identifying the brain protein that Ibogaine regulates to reduce alcohol consumption in rats, we have established a link be...Study of CPR quality reveals frequent deviation from guidelines
...e," explained Abella. "It protects your heart and brain until we can get your heart pumping again," which usually requires shocking it back into a normal rhythm. The study authors have used their data to launch an effort to increase the quality of CPR delivered at the hospital, combining additional train...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...n as an out-of-body experience (OBE) with specific brain activity. During an OBE, one senses that the "self" departs the body so that the body and the world can be viewed from "outside." Healthy volunteers imagined an OBE, mentally shifting their visual perspective and body position. Evoked potential mappi...New theory chalenges current view of how brain stores long-term memory
...gram, "feels" like it is stored permanently in the brain and it will never be forgotten. Indeed, the cur...e re-duplication of memories across many different brain networks. For example, one's name is represented in innumerable neural circuits; thus, it is ex...MGH researchers find way of regenerating cells key to hearing
...them to electrical signals that are carried to the brain by the auditory nerve. Among the earliest structures to form in embryonic development, hair cells are very sensitive to damage from excessive noise, infections or toxins including some medications. Once damaged, hair cells do not naturally regenera...Northwestern Memorial chosen to be featured in first-ever mini-med school TV airing on PBS
..., he takes Mini-Med students through the intricate brain surgery of his patient, Kathy a Chicago area resident who before being referred to Dr. Batjer had undergone an unsuccessful procedure to treat her aneurysms, a form of stroke. In front of the studio audience, Kathy shares her story and discusses h...New system may help babies avoid brain damage
...bor reduces the number of babies born with hypoxic brain damage as well as unnecessary Caesarean sections. "The umbilical cord, the brain and the heart are the particular aspects of the fetus that have to be conserved almost at all costs ...Mayo Clinic Cancer Center receives SPORE grant for brain cancer research from NCI
...grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for brain cancer research. The SPORE grant will provide $10....port research geared toward significantly reducing brain cancer deaths and disabilities. Mayo Clinic neurologist Brian O'Neill, M.D., is the overall principa...Antibiotics protect nerves in mice by turning on genes
...Instead, the drugs squelch the dangerous side of a brain chemical called glutamate by turning on at least o..., can increase numbers of specific transporters in brain cells. Because we study ALS, we tested the drugs in a mouse model of that disease, but this is much ......e gained new insights into the strategies that the brain uses to measure time. Their findings indicate that the brain measures time by assessing the duration of a process--using the internal equivalent of a neural stop...