Study shows new antipsychotic drug prevents brain loss in schizophrenia
...s been linked to social withdrawal and progressive deterioration in cognition and emotion--which are among the leas... that causes progressive worsening of symptoms and deterioration in function, but only in the last 10 years have researchers found that the brains of schizophrenics ...Lack of vigorous activity linked to functional decline in older adults with arthritis
...gorous physical activity and subsequent functional deterioration in this national arthritis cohort is particularly .... According to their calculations, the functional deterioration could have been reduced by as much as 32 percent. "These findings indicate that older persons with...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 2
... receptor antagonist memantine can slightly reduce deterioration in patients with moderate to severe Alzheimer's di...mantine had slightly less functional and cognitive deterioration and were less likely to have become agitated. However, for patients who had already developed agitat...Some Alzheimer's patients can benefit from drug memantine
The drug memantine can reduce cognitive deterioration and loss of everyday functions in patients with mo...sible that the drug only extends the total time of deterioration without reducing the personal of social burden of the disease." Alzheimer's disease is the most comm...Study links cigarette smoking with progression of multiple sclerosis
... MS, a later stage of the disease marked by steady deterioration of the central nervous system. This disease progression also occurred more quickly in patients who were identified as current or past smokers. The study also supported earlier research showing that smoking may increase the risk of initial MS diagno...Too many doctors fail to follow guidelines and to prescribe best treatments for heart patients
...patients had to be referred to the hospital due to deterioration of their heart failure or for cardiovascular symptoms, and there was a longer time before patients had to be readmitted to hospital because of their symptoms. "However, the study showed that only 60% of patients were treated according to the ESC guid...Atorvastatin shows promise in small trial for the treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease
...m for positive effects on cognitive and behavioral deterioration in mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease. D. Larry... and may have a positive effect on the progressive deterioration of cognitive function and behavior anticipated in mild to moderate AD," the authors write. "As a pil...High blood pressure causes pathological scars in the heart
...ells by inert fibres played a critical role in the deterioration of the heart and the appearance of clinical complications in high blood pressure patients. Over this period, the research team has provided evidence, from both animals and high blood pressure human patients that this hypothesis was, indeed, correct a...Post-marketing analysis examines cholesterol-lowering drugs' side effects
...myopathy (muscle weakness), rhabdomyolysis (muscle deterioration resulting in toxins released in the blood that can...le or kidney complications: rhabdomyolysis (muscle deterioration resulting in toxins released in the blood that can lead to renal failure), proteinuria (protein in t...Boston University psychologists find neurological mechanism for subliminal learning
...ths after the initial trials and show little or no deterioration in their ability to recognize moving dots in a visually noisy background. "It's possible that other parts of the brain could work this way too," Watanabe says. "People might be able to improve their pronunciation of a new language, if it's presented...Knee injury causes decrease in lubrication, has implications for arthritis
...ubricating ability. The findings indicate that the deterioration of lubricating ability and its possible association to cartilage damage "is not a unique feature of early stages of a knee injury, but rather a common feature in inflammatory conditions, both acute and chronic," the paper states. In order to measure ...Report describes details of four transplant recipients who contracted rabies from donor
... a common donor who developed a rapid neurological deterioration and died with clinically unsuspected rabies infection. The two kidneys, the liver and blood vessel tissue were successfully transplanted into four recipients. All four transplant recipients also developed rapidly progressive neurological disease and ...Bone-protecting drugs reduce pain and fractures in metastatic breast cancer
...al destruction often leads to ongoing symptoms and deterioration of quality of life."The review appears in the current issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about ...'Save sight with more light': NASA helps develop new bulb
...macular degeneration, a common eye disease causing deterioration of the macula, the central area of the retina, and low vision, the loss of visual sharpness. Age-related macular degeneration is the number one cause of vision loss and legal blindness in American adults over the age of 60, according to the non-profi...Anti-inflammatory function of Alzheimer's disease drugs revealed
...enerative disease of the brain, characterized by a deterioration of both cognitive and physical abilities. It first affects memory and the ability to carry out complex, coordinated tasks. It also can bring on depression, inattention and outbursts of anger. In a more progressive stage, the disease can cause difficu...Early warning signs of Alzheimer's show up across cognitive areas years before official diagnosis
...gnosed, confirming that Alzheimer's causes general deterioration and tends to follow a stable preclinical stage with a sharp drop in function. The findings appear in the July issue of Neuropsychology, which is published by the American Psychological Association. Researchers at the Karolinska Institute and Stockh...Prenatal exposure to famine increases risk of schizophrenia
...order, hallucinations, and delusions, as well a as deterioration of social functioning and social withdrawal, according to background information in the article. It is distributed worldwide with a lifetime risk of approximately 1 percent. Schizophrenia is increasingly viewed as a neurodevelopmental disorder with e......the infection caused severe sepsis, rapid clinical deterioration and bleeding into the adrenal glands, a complication, known as Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome, that is usually associated with fulminant bacterial meningitis. Two of the three bacterial strains were resistant to standard antibiotics. In all thre...A new analysis of a standard brain test may help predict dementia
... A prominent feature associated with cognitive deterioration on the baseline EEG was a brain wave called theta, which was excessive in people who would eventually decline, according to the study. This band was particularly abnormal in the frontal regions, along the lateral regions and in the right posterior re...Early life stress can lead to memory loss and cognitive decline in middle age
... that early life emotional stress initiates a slow deterioration of brain-cell communication in adulthood. These cell-signaling deficits occur in the hippocampus, a brain region involved in learning, storage and recall of learned memories. Study results appear in the Oct. 12 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. ...