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Researchers looking into understanding the triggers that favor the onset and development of Alzheimer's disease recommend that people respect their normal sleeping times whenever possible. In new scientific studies, investigators determined that the lack of sleep could contribute to the production of a biomolecu... |
25 September 2009
13:41 GMT |
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According to a report released today, more than 35 million people around the world will suffer from some form of dementia by early 2010. Forms of the disease include such conditions as Alzheimer's, and no effective course of treatment for such afflictions exists up to this point, which makes the predictions even... |
21 September 2009
04:27 GMT |
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Many experts believe that the average human brain starts shrinking with old age, and that the trend continues until death. But a new study comes to disagree with them, stating that, in healthy individuals, no such regression can be found, regardless of age. The same paper hints at the fact that the diminishing of the... |
15 September 2009
10:43 GMT |
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A new scientific study has recently uncovered a worrying correlation between high blood pressure and the risk of developing memory problems in adults beyond the age of 45. Experts determined that people with high diastolic blood pressure were more likely to experience forms of cognitive impairment and memory loss in ... |
25 August 2009
09:14 GMT |
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Dementia is a family of diseases that includes some terrible conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). The very structure of the brain is undergoing transformations because of these diseases, and experts have tried to gain a better understanding on how this happen... |
21 August 2009
08:39 GMT |
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Neurobiologists have known for a long time that new memories accumulated in the brain change the organ's very structure, causing it to change its shape in order to accumulate the knowledge. But exactly how this is done, and where new memories are stored is a puzzle. Now, a groundbreaking new study from experts a... |
13 August 2009
16:51 GMT |
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Experts from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in Bronx, NY, have recently published a new research paper, which shows that people could potentially avoid the risk of developing dementia later on in life if they keep their brain active throughout the day. Activities such as reading, writing, solving crosswords... |
4 August 2009
02:53 GMT |
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According to a new medical study, seniors that are self-satisfied and are not easily stressed are 50 percent less likely to develop dementia than those who have a negative vision on life and take everything to heart. The researchers also showed that each person's social network played a crucial role in this stat... |
20 January 2009
04:43 GMT |
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People at midlife who drink coffee and tea responsibly may be at a lower risk of developing dementia in their senior years, a new prolonged scientific study, conducted in Finland, showed. Some of the test subjects in the new research had been under survey for more than 37 years, starting 1972, so experts from the Uni... |
15 January 2009
10:02 GMT |
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Fat, sugar and cholesterol are the three main "ingredients" that cause the brain tangles associated with some forms of dementia, including Alzheimer's. Karolinska Institutet's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center scientist, Susanne Akterin, announced on Friday that mice fed with fast food products for n... |
1 December 2008
05:38 GMT |
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Vitamin B3 seems to hold many surprises in store for researchers, as evidenced by the latest discovery related to it, when scientists learned that a compound of the vitamin, named nicotinamide, showed an incredible potential in stopping the development of severe Alzheimer's symptoms, such as acute memory loss an... |
5 November 2008
06:22 GMT |
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A new scanning device may hold the key to doctors being able to identify early signs of dementia, even before the disease sets in. The positron emitter tomography (PET) offers conclusive evidence about the signs that characterize the illness, but the problem with it is that only trained professionals can read and int... |
4 November 2008
02:15 GMT |
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The human brain is designed since birth to begin reducing its volume on its own, past a certain age. The process usually shows a 1.9 percent decrease over approximately ten years, in a regular person. But studies conducted on moderate drinkers revealed that the decrease is much more accelerated in their brains, and a... |
14 October 2008
09:20 GMT |
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The number of dementia cases in developing countries could be twice the one previously estimated, says a study involving about 15,000 participants, which might be related to the lack of standard techniques for diagnosing dementia in these particular areas. The findings come in contradiction with similar studies that ... |
28 July 2008
05:16 GMT |
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A review regarding the findings of the 90+ Study in the United States, the biggest study on dementia and other health factors in the country, found recently that women with ages over 90 years are more likely to have dementia than men. The original study involved the investigation of 911 people with ages over 90 and i... |
3 July 2008
03:59 GMT |
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Alzheimer's disease if the most common form of dementia, affecting over 24 million people worldwide. It is degenerative, terminal and there's no known cure for it at the moment, which makes it an even scarier prospect than many of the other frightening demons of modern times, cancer and AIDS among them. Los... |
31 May 2008
05:09 GMT |
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Being called "shorty" is hard to stand as it is. But this is probably the least of concerns: people with shorter arms and legs are more prone to Alzheimer's disease, probably because of a low quality of nutrition in childhood, as revealed by a new study published in the Neurology journal. "Arm span and knee heig... |
7 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Beer or wine? A new Swedish research carried out at the Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg and published in BJS bets on the wine. Started in 1968 and made on 1,458 women, the survey revealed this alcoholic beverage protects against dementia. At the beginning of the study, the subjects rated how much win... |
11 April 2008
05:01 GMT |
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They call you "old man" 'cause you cannot even remember where you left your keys or what you ate in the morning. The others may be right. The leading cause of senile dementia is Alzheimer's disease. A new research published in "2008 Alzheimer's Disease: Facts and Figures," and carried out by a team fro... |
19 March 2008
04:26 GMT |
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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
09:18 GMT |
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Now we know why women spend so much time chatting while having a cup of coffee: caffeine appears to protect thinking skills in older women. A new research showed that women aged 65 and older who consumed over three cups of coffee (or the same caffeine amount in tea) daily scored better over time on memory tests than ... |
8 August 2007
02:39 GMT |
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Aging comes with an array of severe issues; now two of them have been connected. Plaques similar to those encountered in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) - the most common form of senile dementia - may be linked to the nerve damage of glaucoma; however, drugs employed in AD treatment were found... |
7 August 2007
07:20 GMT |
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