News tagged with brain energy

Decaffeinated coffee preserves memory function by improving brain energy metabolism

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have discovered that decaffeinated coffee may improve brain energy metabolism associated with type 2 diabetes. This brain dysfunction is a known risk factor for dementia and ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Silver bullet' supplement could slow brain aging

Professor David Rollo and a group of researchers at McMaster may have found a "silver bullet" when it comes to slowing the aging of the brain.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

How obesity alters the brain area involved in body weight control

The number of people who suffer from one or more of the adverse complications of obesity, including type 2 diabetes and heart disease is rapidly increasing.

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created Dec 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

People with early Alzheimer's disease may be more likely to have lower BMI

Studies have shown that people who are overweight in middle age are more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease decades later than people at normal weight, yet researchers have also found that people in the earliest stages ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study shows estrogen works in the brain to keep weight in check

A recent UT Southwestern Medical Center study found that estrogen regulates energy expenditure, appetite and body weight, while insufficient estrogen receptors in specific parts of the brain may lead to obesity.

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created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Protecting the brain when energy runs low

Researchers from the Universities of Leeds, Edinburgh and Dundee have shed new light on the way that the brain protects itself from harm when 'running on empty.'

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

This is your brain on estrogen

It's no secret that women often gain weight as they get older. The sex hormone estrogen has an important, if underappreciated, role to play in those burgeoning waistlines.

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created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mouse model brings new perspectives on Lafora disease

Short-term energy storage in animal cells is usually achieved through the accumulation of glucose, in the form of long and branched chains, known as glycogen. But when this accumulation happens in neurons it is fatal, causing ...

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created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study links insulin action on brain's reward circuitry to obesity

Researchers reporting in the June issue of Cell Metabolism have what they say is some of the first solid proof that insulin has direct effects on the reward circuitry of the brain. Mice whose reward centers can no longer ...

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created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Disruption of nerve cell supply chain may contribute to Parkinson's

(Medical Xpress) -- New data offer hints to why Parkinson's disease so selectively harms brain cells that produce the chemical dopamine, say researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 12, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Potential mechanisms for future anti-obesity drugs identified

An interdisciplinary group of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has, for the first time, identified the neurological and cellular signaling mechanisms that contribute to satiety — the sensation of feeling ...

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created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Huntington's disease breakthrough equals hope for patients

A huge leap forward in understanding Huntington's disease may give patients hope for a cure.

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created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Case study on Alzheimer's disease looks at progression before and after death

A case study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet sheds light on the pathological course of Alzheimer's disease. The brain of the first Alzheimer's patient to display amyloids demonstrable with a PET ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Metabolism models may explain why Alzheimer's disease kills some neuron types first

Bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego developed an explanation for why some types of neurons die sooner than others in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease. These insights, published ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Food for thought, er, well... Study finds brain wolfs energy to stop thinking

Ever wonder why it's such an effort to forget about work while on vacation or to silence that annoying song that's playing over and over in your head?

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created Sep 20, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast