Unusual form of memory loss often confused for Alzheimer's disease
...cognitive impairments may emerge, but the language deficit remains the primary feature throughout the illness and progresses more rapidly than deficits in other areas. Also in contrast to many patients with Alzheimer's disease, who tend to lose interest in recreational and social activities, some individual...New drug-and-psychotherapy program for bipolar disorder in children
... to address, each in turn, symptoms like attention deficit hyperactivity, residual depression and aggression ...oo often, children are treated first for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), resulting in a worsening of the mania." According to Pavuluri, determ...Understanding Alzheimer's disease: Animal research points to new direction for therapy
...l of Medicine. "If one could reverse the transport deficit problem, the system should be able to pump the pro...e disabled a person becomes. Because the transport deficit causes the amyloid beta protein to accumulate, scientists should focus on finding ways to destroy th...Damage to the frontal lobes can affect a person's ability to 'stay on the job'
...also been reported in dementing illness, attention deficit disorder and schizophrenia. However, there has been no direct experiment to determine if lesions in 'any' focal region of the frontal lobes are critical for performance variability. Dr. Stuss wanted to investigate whether different frontal lobe lesio...Dispute over toxic shock syndrome
...thinks the lack of antibodies could be linked to a deficit of a protein called complement in the patients' blood. Complement is made by a gene on chromosome 6 that might be defective in some people. "We are discussing developing a test," says Jay Gooch, spokesman for P&G. The work could complicate the lega...'Shifty-eyed' monkeys offer window into brain's social reflexes
...e in the eye, and in particular they show a strong deficit in shifting their attention where another individual is looking or paying attention." Such deficits not only cause problems for autistic children in everyday social interactions, said Platt, but also in teaching them. "When you're teaching another p...Alcohol may compound its damaging effects through frontocerebellar circuitry
... volume deficits and specific functions. "A volume deficit of the anterior vermis, but not the prefrontal or ...ue predictors of card-sorting scores, and a volume deficit of cerebellar hemispheric white matter, but not partietal cortex, was a predictor of visuospatial te...SHRS researcher receives NIH grant to study communication deficits in stroke patients
... evaluated to determine what type of comprehension deficit the RHD patients experience and to test Tompkins' theory against two alternative theories. One of these alternatives suggests that RHD patients are unable to maintain different meanings for words and phrases; the other that RHD patients aren't able t...JCI table of contents, 1 August 2003
...ther a primary neurological impairment or a severe deficit in immune function. Two different genetic forms, GS1 and GS2, account for the mutually exclusive neurological and immunological phenotypes. Mutations in the gene encoding the molecular motor protein Myosin5A cause GS1, whereas mutations in the gene e...Researchers find way to improve musical performance
...ping with a number of conditions such as attention deficit disorder and epilepsy, but this is the first time it has been used to improve a complex set of skills such as musical performance in healthy students." Two experiments were conducted involving a total of 97 students. In both experiments, the students...Racial, economic disparities seen in kids' vision care
...y between boys and girls in diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, similar factors may be at work in suspicion and diagnosis of poor vision. In all, Kemper says, more studies of children's eye health are needed in order to understand the prevalence of eye disorders, the influence of insuranc...Pre-term infants slower than full-terms at processing information
...-- than full-term infants. New research shows this deficit in processing speed is already present in the first year of life and the gap in performance does not narrow with age. The research is published in the November issue of Developmental Psychology, a journal of the American Psychological Association (AP...Jefferson scientists find evidence of greater sensitivity to addictive drugs in adolescence
...activity, particularly hyperactivity and attention deficit syndrome. They did not see similar increases in the accumbens, another part of the striatum that is associated with reward from psychostimulants. In the post-weanling mice, there was an increased response in the caudate only to amphetamine. When they...UCLA geneticists find location of major gene in ADHD; targeted region also linked to autism
...obehavioral disorders, including autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dementias, depression, manic-depressive illness (bipolar disorder) and schizophrenia....Physical, mental health illnesses hinder low-income families' economic security
...oning coupled with depression, autism or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), for example. "The fact that many of these caregivers face health problems usually associated with older, frail individuals, is very troubling," Burton notes. "Also, we found that most of these caregivers tended to negl...'Drink at least 8 glasses of water a day' -- Really?
...elieve that evolution left us with a chronic water deficit that needs to be compensated by forcing a high fluid intake." The 8 x 8 rule is slavishly followed. Everywhere, people carry bottles of water, constantly sipping from them; it is acceptable to drink water anywhere, anytime. A pamphlet distributed at ...Research helps explain why perception of pleasure decreases with chronic cocaine use
... cocaine intake. The persistence of this pleasure deficit after stopping prolonged cocaine use may be part of the neurobiological basis for the continued craving and increased vulnerability to relapse associated with drug addiction. The study's findings also show that tolerance does not result from a decre...Faulty gene may explain why some fall ill at high altitudes
... to decipher the genetic cause of the nitric oxide deficit in patients with HAPE," Hanaoka says. Researchers drew blood from 41 healthy climbers with a history of HAPE and a control group of 51 healthy climbers from the Mountaineering Association of Nagano and the Alpine Club of Shinshu University who had no...Bleach-producing enzyme found to modulate blood vessel dilation during inflammation
...rosclerosis, which are commonly characterized by a deficit in the vasodilatory substance nitric oxide and the accumulation of myeloperoxidase in the blood vessel wall." The research findings also may help guide future studies aimed at identifying whether individuals without the myeloperoxidase enzyme due to...UC Davis Children's Hospital launches unique program to develop community pediatricians
...add services for children with asthma or attention deficit disorder." Gold, a clinical professor at UC Davis, will lead efforts to recruit other practicing pediatricians to help mentor the medical residents and teach the program's curricula....