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Caffeine reverses memory impairment in Alzheimer's mice

Caffeine reverses memory impairment in Alzheimer's mice

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Coffee drinkers may have another reason to pour that extra cup. When aged mice bred to develop symptoms of Alzheimer's disease were given caffeine - the equivalent of five cups of coffee a day - their memory ...


Key Brain Receptors Linked To Learning and Memory Decrease with Age

Key Brain Receptors Linked To Learning and Memory Decrease with Age

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying cognitive decline that accompanies aging have been interested in nicotinic receptors, part of a key neural pathway that not only enhances learning and memory skills but ...


Memory test and PET scans detect early signs of Alzheimer's

Researchers find early markers of Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A large study of patients with mild cognitive impairment revealed that results from cognitive tests and brain scans can work as an early warning system for the subsequent development of Alzheimer's disease.


Research Finds Photos More Useful Than Words for Memory Recall

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that pictures allow patients with very mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) to better recognize and identify a subject as compared to using ...


Researchers use eye tracking to detect mild dementia in humans (w/Podcast)

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, developed a test in nonhuman primates that is now using infrared eye tracking to detect mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in humans. The researchers ...


Shrinking in hippocampus area of brain precedes Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

People who have lost brain cells in the hippocampus area of the brain are more likely to develop dementia, according to a study published in the March 17, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the Americ ...


Motor skill learning may be enhanced by mild brain stimulation

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

People who received a mild electrical current to a motor control area of the brain were significantly better able to learn and perform a complex motor task than those in control groups. The findings could hold promise for ...


Education protects against pre-Alzheimer's memory loss

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 20, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

ST. PAUL, Minn. – People with more education and more mentally demanding occupations may have protection against the memory loss that precedes Alzheimer's disease, according to a study published in the October 21, 2008, issue ...


Ruthenium in a Clinch

Chemistry /

created Oct 13, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Amines are needed for the production of pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, agrochemicals, plastics, dyes, pigments, and additives. Most important are compounds with a terminal amino group (–NH2), known as primary ...


Hidden infections crucial to understanding, controlling disease outbreaks

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 22, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists and news organizations typically focus on the number of dead and gravely ill during epidemics, but research at the University of Michigan suggests that less dramatic, mild infections lurking in large numbers of ...


Hidden infections crucial to understanding, controlling disease outbreaks

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 13, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists and news organizations typically focus on the number of dead and gravely ill during epidemics, but research at the University of Michigan suggests that less dramatic, mild infections lurking in ...


Blood test shows promise for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Elderly people exhibiting memory disturbances that do not affect their normal, daily life suffer from a condition called "mild cognitive impairment" (MCI). Some MCI patients go on to develop Alzheimer's disease within a few ...


Social anxiety disorder a real issue in major league baseball

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In 18 years as the Mets' team psychiatrist, Dr. Allan Lans witnessed player insecurities, depressions and griefs "all the time." But this recent wave of major-leaguers becoming so stressed that they have been assigned to ...


Poll: Many students stressed, some depressed

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Got stress? Oh, yeah, college students say, what with roommates, GPAs, student loans and all the rest. But where's the line between feeling simply stressed and being truly depressed?


New research highlights dramatically reduced risk of developing dementia

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

People with memory problems are less at risk of developing dementia than previously thought, a new study led by the University of Leicester and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust reveals.