Study showed the number one prescribed Alzheimer's treatment beneficial in vascular dementia (VaD)
...zheimer's disease (AD) and VaD patients. In these distinct populations, patients treated with ARICEPT demonstrated significant improvements in cognition, behavior, and activities of daily living, compared to those receiving placebo. There were important differences in the treatment response between AD and Va...Identifying depression in preschoolers
...ren this young to clearly identify depression as a distinct disorder. They used a parent questionnaire and special interview techniques designed for young children to identify signs and symptoms of depression and to learn whether very young children displayed those symptoms. "One of the reasons this area of r...Symphony of memory formation revealed
...s, with subdivisions within the hippocampus making distinct but changing contributions as learning takes place," said lead author Michael M. Zeineh, a Brain Mapping Center researcher and student in the David Geffen School of Medicine's Medical Scientist Training Program. "Brain activity increases as informati...Satellite images predict hantaviral transmission risk
... to the researchers, satellite imaging detects the distinct environmental conditions that may serve as a refug...chers found that high-risk sites were ecologically distinct from low-risk sites and SNV infection was prevalent among deer mice in high-risk areas. Woody plants...Trial opens new possibilities for improving survival with a novel heart attack drug
...s period. The complement system is made up of many distinct proteins that react in a "cascade," one after the other, when faced with a stimulus. The end result of this cascade is an inflammatory response that destroys foreign substances. Pexelizumab is a fragment of an antibody that blocks one of the proteins...Flaxseed-rich diet blocks prostate cancer growth and development in mice
...seed-derived lignans inhibited the growth of three distinct human prostate cancer cell lines through hormonally dependent and independent mechanisms. "So far we have observed the suppression of prostate cancer in humans, mice and at the cellular level," said Lin. "It's not a fluke or a coincidence. It's an en...Evidence supports two types of heart failure
...vidence that isolated diastolic heart failure is a distinct syndrome and may need to be addressed as such. We look forward to moving toward clinical research to test whether treatments that have proven effective for systolic heart failure, or other new therapies, might be effective against diastolic heart fai...Study describes second kind of heart failure
...ool of Medicine further characterizes a second and distinct type of heart failure, a progressively debilitatin...ndition that should be addressed as a separate and distinct clinical syndrome." To discuss the findings with Dr. Premen, media may call the NIA Information Off...The eyes have it: Study shows infants more tuned into wider world than previously believed
...it in the blindfold test. The researchers found a distinct age difference in the infants' ability to distinguish a visual obstruction. The 12-month-olds had difficulty distinguishing between the headband and blindfold, while the 14- and 18-month-olds readily followed the eyes of the headband-wearing experim...Smoking may change type of lymphoma into more lethal form of cancer
...romatic hydrocarbons found in tobacco smoke causes distinct mutations in the p53 tumor suppressor gene. One of p53's major roles is to arrest cells that have sustained DNA damage from proceeding into the phase of the cell cycle involving DNA synthesis. If, however, the p53 gene is mutated and the cell divid...The Lancet Infectious Diseases (TLID)
... more frequent and more severe, but they also have distinct features with respect to clinical presentation, laboratory results, microbial epidemiology, treatment, and infection control. Moreover, ageing may be the cause of infection but infection can also be the cause of ageing. In a related commentary, Kevin...Exercise, talk therapy may help relieve some symptoms of Gulf War veterans' illnesses
... disorders, which are more generally accepted as a distinct illness by physicians than the collection of illnesses formerly known as Gulf War syndrome, have been shown to respond to exercise and supportive interactions with others. According to those who experience it, the overwhelming fatigue, mental distre...Schizophrenia has different sub-types linked to problems in different parts of the brain
...nts. The authors suggest that they might not be a distinct subgroup, but rather a composite mixture of patients who exhibit the same cognitive and neurobiological manifestations as the other two groups, but to a lesser extent. The existence of categorically different subtypes may help to explain some of th...Beijing conference to address lung cancer crisis in China
...to normal genes and creating "genetic profiles" of distinct types of cancer. Jablons, with co-author and fellow UCSF scientist Biao He, PhD, will discuss recent findings about the Wnt signaling pathway. Wnt signaling likely plays an important role in lung cancer, they said, and modulating this signaling pathw...UCLA geneticists find location of major gene in ADHD; targeted region also linked to autism
...remains to be determined. ADHD and autism are very distinct clinical conditions. Although certain features are...of this finding, as it is also quite feasible that distinct risk genes underlying each condition just happen to be in close proximity on chromosome 16. UCLA res...UNC forms Conte Center for multidisciplinary schizophrenia research
...enter will conduct four interrelated studies using distinct research methods. Researchers will attempt to identify critical brain events that trigger the development of psychotic symptoms associated with schizophrenia. One study will use ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to examine prenatal and ...Women with advanced cervical cancer need varied therapy, study shows
...clinical stage IIIb cervical cancer fell into four distinct groups on the basis of PET scans. Women whose cancer had not spread to the lymph nodes had the highest rates of survival, followed by women with cancer cells in the pelvic lymph nodes only. Those whose tumors had spread to lymph nodes in the upper ab...Experts gathering to discuss tapping into $40-$50 billion natural products market
...grow naturally in North Carolina, which gives us a distinct advantage over other producers around the world," he said. "Jobs these researchers have set for themselves include undertaking surveys to determine these plants' importance to the market, their potential for North Carolina agriculture and their effic...UT Southwestern researcher studies causes, treatment of bipolar disease coupled with drug abuse
...by Nejtek. The study was the first to identify two distinct patterns of cortisol release corresponding to events of high and low emotional impact. The adult study showed a strong correlation between the amount of emotionally impacted stress, individual cognition and cortisol salivary levels when subjects watc......d, for instance, can easily distinguish smallpox's distinct "fingerprint" from that of HIV. "By providing a n...erprinting" method also offers a greater number of distinct signals than conventional methods, meaning more diseases can be tested for at one time. ...