Health Risk To "Cigarette Babies" Is Neglected, Duke Scientist Charges
... produces farmore damage than the more limited and episodic use of cocaine. Professor of Pharmacology Theodore Slotkin bases his conclusions on adetailed review of research findings, including his own, published in a papertitled "Fetal Nicotine or Cocaine Exposure: Which One is Worse?" in the Juneissu...Treatments reduce strep-triggered symptoms of OCD and tics in some children
...matic,sudden onset or exacerbation of symptoms and episodic course, in which periodsof symptom worsening follow strep infections. "The investigation shows that plasma exchange and IVIG relieve neuropsychiatricsymptoms in this subgroup of children with tics and obsessive-compulsivedisorder. A few children wer...Mayo Clinic discovers cause of a frequently fatal myasthenic syndrome affecting children
...genital myasthenic syndromes (CMS) associated with episodic respiratory distress and apnea. The gene mutation...the attacks. Congenital myasthenic syndromes with episodic apnea cause patients, most often young children, to experience episodes in which they have a sudden ...Gluten in the diet may be the cause of recurring headaches
... with confusion and agitation. He had experienced episodic headache for four years but then the attacks progressed in frequency and severity. After starting a gluten-free diet his balance improved rapidly and his headaches cleared completely. After a relaxation of the gluten-free diet, his intermittent head...'Use it or lose it?' study suggests mentally stimulating activities may reduce Alzheimer's risk
... however, in working memory, perceptual speed, and episodic memory among people who did more cognitively stimulating activities. What accounts for the association between cognitively stimulating activities and reduced risk of cognitive decline and AD is unclear. It may be, some scientists theorize, that cogn...Alcohol linked to decreased hypertension risk in young women
...t patterns of alcohol consumption. "We found that episodic or binge drinking didn't increase the risk of high blood pressure compared to drinking more regularly," says Thadhani. But he cautions that binge drinking is associated with stroke, cardiovascular disease and trauma. Thadhani and his colleagues also...First longitudinal study on lesbian health
...erns of drinking including drinking levels, heavy episodic drinking and intoxication and thefactors that influence those changes. "Understanding factors that increase or buffer lesbians' risk will permit the development of more culturally relevant prevention and intervention strategies," said Tonda Hughes,...Study finds a mouse model for episodic neurological disorders
...n the factors that seem to trigger attacks in such episodic neurological disorders as migraine and dyskinesia....s the first to use mice to investigate triggers of episodic attacks, which are much more difficult to study in humans. Though the symptoms of episodic disorder...Verbal memory test best indicator of who will have Alzheimer's disease, new study says
... note that decline in memory, especially in verbal episodic memory, can be observed in normal elderly people as well as in elderly with mild cognitive impairments and that most of those people will not become future victims of Alzheimer's. How can we tell the difference between those elderly with normal memo...American Neurological Association 128th Annual Meeting
...ing commonalities of epilepsy, migraine, and other episodic disorders. These are some of the highlights of the...ine, periodic paralysis, and others, which all are episodic in nature, also share common causes--mutations in proteins that help conduct ions into and out of ce...Rochester chosen to focus on rare neurological diseases
...ocus on three channelopathies: periodic paralysis, episodic ataxia, and nondystrophic myotonias. Patients affe... several times every day. It's much the same with episodic ataxia, except instead of paralysis, patients lose their coordination suddenly and unexpectedly. A p...The evolving management of migraine
... Silberstein commented that some patients who have episodic (occasional) migraines (the most common) eventually develop chronic migraines (those that occur more than 15 days per month; occurs in 2 percent of patients.) There are many risk factors for chronic migraine, Dr. Silberstein said, such as obesity, sn...Distress-prone people more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease
...ile. Proneness to stress was related to decline in episodic memory. Episodic memory is measured by asking part...o recall a list of words or a story. Problems with episodic memory are typical in people with Alzheimer's disease. Episodic memory ability declined 10 times fas...Yesterday, today and tomorrow: Mount Sinai researchers are making sense of episodic memory
...hat are organized by time and context are known as episodic memory. Dr. Matthew L. Shapiro, Associate Profess..." To examine the brain processes involved in such episodic memories, Drs. Shapiro and Ferbinteanu examined cellular activity within the brain while rats search...High blood pressure in the lungs a major risk for death in adults with sickle cell disease
...n people of African descent, and is accompanied by episodic severe pain in the joints, leg ulcers, jaundice and multi-organ failure. A serious complication of sickle cell disease is pulmonary hypertension. Pulmonary hypertension is high blood pressure (not related to the pressure measured by cuff on the arm)...Low vitamin B12 is associated with poorer memory in older people with high risk for Alzheimer's
...allele; 54 without). The researchers then tested episodic memory, varying the test conditions to make them as sensitive as possible to underlying disorder. Among carriers of the є4 ApoE allele, people with normal B12 levels recalled a greater number of words. More time to encode (five as opposed to...Hormonal response to stress alters immune system function and alters mental and physical disease
...n from stable to unstable atherosclerotic plaques, episodic factors like depression and exhaustion become more important. And finally, acute psychological triggers mental stress and anger, for example can promote myocardial ischemia and plaque rupture. Thus, he says, "the specific hormonal and immunologica...For foster children, unstable placements have higher healthcare costs
...r more foster care placements and five percent had episodic foster care placements during the year observed. T... in the sample population. Multiple placements and episodic foster care both increased the predicted probability of high mental health service use. Higher physi...Diabetes linked to increased risk of Alzheimer's in long-term study
...mmonly affected by aging, AD, and other dementias episodic memory (memory of specific life events), semantic memory (general knowledge), working memory (ability to hold and mentally rearrange information), perceptual speed (the speed with which simple perceptual comparisons can be made, such as whether two s...Diabetics at significantly higher risk for Alzheimer's disease
...monly affected by aging, AD, and other dementias - episodic memory (memory of specific life events), semantic memory (general knowledge), working memory (ability to hold and mentally rearrange information), perceptual speed (the speed with which simple perceptual comparisons can be made, such as whether two s...