Drug triggers body's mechanism to reverse aging effect on memory process
...gher learning and the ability to reason. With age, deficits in LTP emerge, and learning and memory loss occurs. Significantly, restoration of LTP was found in the middle-aged rats' brains even after the ampakines had been cleared from the animals' bodies. The drug used in the injections has a half-life of o...Preventing spinal cord injury during aortic surgery
...amping the aorta to prevent bleeding. While severe deficits can be controlled through reduced ischemia time, t...ay further decrease the likelihood of neurological deficits following aortic aneurysm surgery....Behavioural therapy can restore ovulation in infertile women
...ailure to ovulate was usually caused by the energy deficits induced by excessive exercise and/or undernutrition, but we asked why women undertake such behaviours. Often dieting and exercise are a way of coping with psychosocial stress, and our previous work had shown that such stress is often increased in w...Serotonin, acting in a specific brain region, promotes sleep in fruit flies
...gesting that serotonin treatment can overcome some deficits caused by other sleep problems. The researchers also identified a serotonin receptor that affects sleep, and showed that it acts in a specific region of the fly brain known as the mushroom bodies. Interestingly, the mushroom bodies are required for l...Mixed amphetamine salts extended release improves information processing in adults with ADHD
...fficiency of completing tasks primarily due to the deficits in attention and executive functions," said investigator Gary Kay, Ph.D., president of the Washington Neuropsychological Institute. "Our analyses demonstrate that mixed amphetamine salts help people with ADHD to respond to a number of demanding cogn...M. D. Anderson: Setting the benchmark in brain tumor treatment
...tructures, thus reducing the kinds of neurological deficits that lead to impaired quality of life, says Sawaya. Radiation therapy also has been part of the standard of care in brain tumors, but such treatment is especially tricky in the brain, given that tumors are embedded within functional folds of t...Mayo Clinic study finds coma grossly misrepresented in the movies
... if from a terrible nightmare -- with no cognitive deficits or other long-lasting effects from the coma. Dr. Wijdicks explains that the actors portraying comatose patients in the movies that depicted coma poorly do not have feeding tubes, do not have contractures and are not tracheotomized. They also remain ...Mild neurologic deficits appear to increase vulnerability to post-traumatic stress disorder
...mbat exposed, identical twins had minor neurologic deficits that veterans without PTSD and their twins did not have, suggesting that those deficits are not acquired by exposure to traumatic events but instead may predispose individuals to PTSD, acc...Does IQ drop with age or does something else impact intelligence?
...perform under conditions that mimic the perception deficits many older people have, their IQ scores would take...intelligence tests," concludes Gilmore. Perception deficits gradually appear over the life span of individuals and seem to reach problem levels in older adults ...In utero exposure to urban air pollutants can increase risk
...ment is indicative of greater risk for performance deficits in language, reading, and math in the early school years. In the study, the mothers' exposure during pregnancy to varying levels of airborne PAHs was measured by personal air monitoring. PAHs enter the environment when combustion occurs such as fr...Autism has high costs to US society
... developmental disorder (PDD) that involves severe deficits in a person's ability to communicate and interact with others. Children with autism often have trouble using their imagination, have a limited range of interests, and may show repetitive patterns of behavior or body movements. The disorder is often a...Prenatal alcohol exposure can alter circadian rhythms in offspring
...ell as other behavioral problems such as attention deficits and depression. Alterations in these behaviors may indicate that their biological rhythms, which are controlled by circadian systems, have been affected by alcohol exposure during development. Rodent research confirms that alcohol exposure during a...Stroke patients may be more likely to experience memory decline
...sible that the occurrence of stroke adds cognitive deficits in person with subclinical Alzheimer's disease that bring them over the diagnostic threshold and that stroke does not have a direct specific effect on Alzheimer's disease." "A history of stroke is related to a progressive decline in memory and abstr...... understand the neural bases of object recognition deficits in mental disorders, such as autism, dyslexia or s...nique to probe the neural bases of face perception deficits in autism," Riesenhuber said. Because humans are so talented in recognizing faces, many in the scien...AIDS-related cognitive impairment exists in two separate forms
...ain and can be a complicated syndrome resulting in deficits in mood, behavior, motor coordination and thought processes. Studies have shown that, especially since the advent of the first combination antiretroviral therapies, the incidence of severe dementia in people with AIDS has decreased significantly. How...BMJ Editor calls for independence for the NHS
...xaggerations. Record spending has delivered record deficits and uncertain value for money. For the first time in anyone's memory, sizeable numbers of NHS staff are losing their jobs. How has this happened and what's to be done? Last week's edition of the BBC's Panorama roundly blamed the government. But gover...Combining alcohol and Red Bull reduces the 'perception' of impairment
...not, however, significantly reduce alcohol-related deficits on objective measures of motor coordination and .... Red Bull did not, however, significantly reduce deficits caused by alcohol on objective measures of motor coordination and visual reaction time. "There a...Memory function: There is hope for alcoholics with Korsakoff Syndrome
...t events. A new study investigates if these memory deficits extend to visuoperceptual learning. Findings indic...nking and thiamine deficiency, often have profound deficits in their "explicit memory" or ability to recall recent events. A study in the April issue of Alcoh...Reduced insulin in the brain triggers Alzheimer's degeneration
...ulin and IGF-I signaling mechanisms correlate with deficits in acetylcholine production. In this study, ChAT was markedly reduced in the experimental Alzheimer's model. "Our previous work has shown that many of the important features of Alzheimer's such as the accumulation of phosphorylated tau and the deat...Effects of preterm birth and early environmental risks continue into adolescence
...Numerous studies of children born prematurely find deficits in cognitive ability and school achievement throug...hough there may be no intervention to overcome the deficits associated with severe medical complications at birth, there is room for improvement in the social e...