The dangerous disease that affects some 5 million American citizens to date could finally be slowed down or even cured, thanks to progresses made in understanding its causes, announced researchers working with the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND). Some proteins have been known to oppose Alzheimer in... |
20 October 2008
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Huntington's disease is an abnormal hereditary genetic mutation, currently incurable, which determines an increasingly fast deterioration of certain nerve cells in the brain. The disease itself is not lethal, although the complications are. The symptoms usually appear around middle age and manifest themselves th... |
19 May 2008
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You have to eat well to function well. To grow muscles you need proteins in your food. We stimulate our brain with various products, from caffeine to lecithin. But what about a cocktail making your brain grow?A MIT team has discovered that a cocktail made of 3 chemicals, normally found in the blood stream, boosts th... |
27 November 2007
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It may sound paradoxical, but 'exercised' brains get demented much rapidly than the nerd ones. Highly instructed patients seem to outcome easier dementia symptoms in the first stages, compensating subliminally the deficits through trained "thinking power". University graduates experience memory loss 50 % fa... |
25 October 2007
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We have just found out why the Americans are so smart: because of the blueberry!...Just a sole dietary switch on the lab animals with a genetic pattern rendering them prone towards Alzheimer's disease enabled them to act as well as healthy counterparts in maze tests. The team at the Agricultural Research Service... |
10 August 2007
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After the mad cow, why not the demented pig? This is what Danish researchers at Institute of Human Genetics, Aarhus University, and University of Copenhagen, led by Associate Professor Arne Lund Jorgensen, are going to produce: the first pigs containing genes that trigger the Alzheimer's disease. The first clone... |
6 July 2007
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If the PS3 can't make it into the hearts of fans with its super-console abilities, Sony thought of including the machine in more useful activities like taking on incurable diseases. Breitbart posted an article about Sony's announcement on Thursday saying their PS3 consoles would be enhanced to join a super... |
16 March 2007
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