An extra hour of sleep can make a big difference for kids
...d that sleep deprivation significantly impairs the brains executive control system, which helps people organize, prioritize and focus on tasks. But few sleep-deprivation studies have focused on children, and those few have tended to examine extreme rather than modest sleep deprivation. The daily struggles b...Parkinsons symptoms indicated for first time on pet scans of brains of living patients
...maging to identify changes in small regions of the brains of living Parkinson's disease patients for the fir...ed positron emission tomography (PET) scans of the brains of 41 Parkinson's patients and 16 normal individuals obtained at the Hammersmith Hospital, part of t...Alcohol-damaged brains 'recruit' new brain regions to perform simple tasks
...ger tapping, slower than non-alcoholics. Alcoholic brains also recruited other-than-normally activated regio...her words, the alcoholics had to use more of their brains to do less. "First, we found that alcoholics, generally speaking, tapped more inefficiently," said M...Smart virus eliminates brain cancer in animal experiments
...t had human glioblastoma tumors implanted in their brains and treated with Delta-24-RGD survived for more than four months, whereas untreated mice lived for less than three weeks. The mice were considered clinically cured of their brain tumors. Investigators found only empty cavities and scar tissue where t...Rush researchers find effects of Alzheimer's disease may be influenced by education
...ia, examined physical characteristics of autopsied brains of deceased participants in the Religious Orders S...ual speed, and "visuospatial" ability. At death, brains of the participants were examined to see how much AD pathology, or damage, was evident. Scientists ...Researching a workout device to help keep the balance system in shape
... muscle strength, they will also be training their brains to readapt to a gravity environment," Bloomberg said. "Everyone is told they need to exercise to maintain their heart and muscles, but rarely do people train to keep their balance system in shape." Further development of these testing protocols will...Scientists develop technique that uses ultrafast lasers to obtain hi-quality images of brain tissue
...valuable application of this technique is to image brains of animals that have been genetically engineered t...n in certain cells. By studying 3-D images of the brains of mice that produced fluorescent protein in the blood vessels of the brain, Kleinfeld's team was ab...Higher education or larger brain size may protect against dementia later in life, new study finds
...ven prevent the onset of dementia by keeping their brains active," Dr. Mortimer said. It is not yet known wh...ntia. Sixty participants died and their autopsied brains were evaluated to assess the severity of brain abnormalities associated with AD. The Nun Study, begu...Could a mandated food additive aimed at better fetal development be a risk for seniors?
...B-12 deficiency goes undetected, the longer their brains and nervous systems will undergo progressive deterioration due to the B-12 deficiency, culminating in a greater risk for the Alzheimer's--like dementia as well as paralysis that can result from B-12 deficiency. Diagnosing B-12 Deficiency Preventi...Short-term dyslexia treatment strengthens key brain regions
...ildren with dyslexia use the same regions of their brains as other readers, and that specialized instruction...rmal readers used the same specific parts of their brains to perform these tasks, says lead study author Elizabeth Aylward, PhD, with the department of radiol...Amnesia, confusion may signal concussion
...athletes 18 years of age and younger because their brains are still developing," concludes Dr. Lovell. Concu...the proper amount of time to heal, young athletes' brains should completely recover from concussion. Should a young athlete sustain a second concussion before...Cell 'suicide' enzymes are a missing link in Alzheimer's disease
... the timing of tau cleavage in Alzheimer's disease brains relative to other molecular events and to determine what role, if any, caspase cleavage of tau has in neuronal cell death. Binder is professor of cell and molecular biology and a researcher at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center a...Emory scientists contribute to study of key regulatory protein in neurodegeneration
...School of Medicine studied the degeneration in the brains of Pin1-deficient mice using electron microscopy a...up joined the effort to analyze the Pin1-deficient brains in a way that was complementary to the biochemical methods used by the Harvard group. They found th...SFVAMC researchers distinguish dementias using brain imaging
...ng severity. Schuff and his colleagues studied the brains of 43 elderly patients who had been diagnosed with...o create three-dimensional images of the patients' brains in order to look for differences in structure. They also used magnetic resonance spectroscopy to loo...Amphetamine or cocaine exposure may limit brain changes that occur with life experiences
...ironment. At the end of 3 or 3.5 months, the rats' brains were analyzed for changes in dendritic branching and spine density. Specifically, the researchers examined the spiny neurons in the nucleus accumbens and the pyramidal cells in the parietal cortex. These areas were shown in previous studies to be alt...Mayo Clinic study reveals new fathers struggle with obsessional thoughts too
...houghts," points out Dr. Abramowitz. "How people's brains are hard-wired may play a role, as well as how people are trained as a child to think about themselves or the importance of their thoughts. Stress situations, like the period after a child is born, definitely increase the likelihood that obsessional ...UCSD researchers ID peptides that bind to Alzheimer's plaques
...ntaining plaques that accumulate abnormally in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients, providing a possible "Trojan horse" mechanism to diagnose and treat the disorder. "These peptide sequences are potential new tools for the delivery of medication to the amyloid plaques that are found in Alzheimer's di...Early nicotine use may lead to lasting addiction, study finds
... brain to proceed inappropriately. In essence, the brains of adolescents who use tobacco may be sculpted around an addiction to nicotine."...PET scans show cigarette smoke affects peripheral organs
... has shown that the level of MAO B is lower in the brains of smokers....Imaging study reveals effect of smoking on peripheral organs
...s of the enzyme monoamine oxidase B (MAO B) in the brains of smokers, now provide compelling evidence that M...research showed that the reduction of MAO B in the brains of smokers was not due to nicotine, but rather, to some other component of tobacco smoke. "Since smo...