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Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Predicting Alzheimer's Disease More Accurate Through Cognitive Changes Than Biomarkers
Measuring people's changes in cognitive abilities is a better predictor of Alzheimer's disease than changes in biomarkers, researchers from the Benito Menni Complex Assistencial en Salut Mental, Barcelona, Spain, reported in Archives of General Psychiatry, a JAMA journal.
05 Sept 2011
JCI Online Early Table Of Contents: Sept. 1, 2011
Activating your ABCs might help prevent AD (Alzheimer disease)Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia among older people. One of the main features of AD is the presence in the brain of abnormal clumps of the protein fragment beta-amyloid, which are known as amyloid plaques.
05 Sept 2011
Autism News
Novel Analysis Of MRI Scans Reveals Distinct Features Of Autistic Brain
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital have used a novel method for analyzing brain-scan data to distinguish children with autism from typically developing children.
05 Sept 2011
Flu / Cold / SARS News
Children Should Be Vaccinated Against Flu This Year, Even If They Were Last Year
All children should receive a flu jab this year, even if one was given to them last year, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) stresses. This coming flu season's flu vaccine provides protection for the same three strains of influenza as last year's vaccine.
05 Sept 2011
Heart Disease News
How Cells' Powerhouse Divides - New Insight
New research from the University of California, Davis, and the University of Colorado at Boulder puts an unexpected twist on how mitochondria, the energy-generating structures within cells, divide.
05 Sept 2011
IT / Internet / E-mail News
Researchers Investigate New Mechanism For Predicting How Diseases Spread
Northwestern University professor Dirk Brockmann and his group at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science have investigated the outcomes of a previously ignored mechanism in modeling how humans travel.
05 Sept 2011
Mental Health News
Mental Illness Affects Half Of All Americans During Their Lifetime
Approximately half of all American adults with suffer some kind of mental illness during their lifetime, a CDC reports announced. The authors stress the need for better surveillance in order to improve treatment and prevention.
05 Sept 2011
Seniors / Aging News
Media Reporting On Good Care Homes Should Be Fair, UK
Bmj.com expert Graham Mulley, Emeritus Professor of Elderly Care at the University of Leeds argues, that many care homes provide first-rate care irrespective of the never-ending negative media coverage.
05 Sept 2011
Undetectable Blockages In Brain Blood Vessels Linked To Signs Of Aging
Blockages in tiny blood vessels in the brain that can't be detected with modern technology could be responsible for many of the "parkinsonian" signs of aging, such as stooped posture, difficulty balancing, slowed walking and shaky hands, according to a study from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, USA, reported online in the 1 September issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
05 Sept 2011
Signs Of Aging May Be Linked To Undetected Blocked Brain Blood Vessels
Many common signs of aging, such as shaking hands, stooped posture and walking slower, may be due to tiny blocked vessels in the brain that can't be detected by current technology.In a study reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association, researchers from Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, examined brain autopsies of older people and found:Microscopic lesions or infarcts - too small to be detected using brain imaging - were in 30 percent of the brains of people who had no diagnosed brain disease or stroke.
05 Sept 2011
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