- Enjoy Sugar Again: High Carb Diet On Par With Caloric Restriction In Boosting Health
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... Medical Research Council of Australia and the Ageing and Alzheimer's Institute of Concord Hospital. This study was funded in part by the ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2015 - 11:01am - 0 attachments
- ROI For Biomedical Research Slipping
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... that the "easy" cures have been found and that to tackle Alzheimer's disease, most cancers and autoimmune diseases, for example, is ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 24 2015 - 6:49pm - 0 attachments
- Environmentalists Almost Killed My Friend
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I am fortunate enough to own a small cottage on Fire Island. The island is a barrier beach, located about five miles off the south shore of Long Island. It is a wonderful, unique place. There are no roads or cars. And no stress, which is especially ast ...
Article - Josh Bloom - Aug 15 2015 - 10:59pm - 0 attachments
- Eating Away At Cognitive Decline
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... adults, even when the person is not at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, according to researchers at Rush University Medical ... the MIND diet may reduce a person's risk in developing Alzheimer's disease. The recent study shows that older adults who ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2015 - 7:30am - 0 attachments
- Insulin's Potential To Treat Dementia
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... findings were published online July 30 in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. "Before this study, there was very little evidence of ... like insulin to help those suffering from diseases like Alzheimer's that affect memory function. The study was funded through a ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2015 - 12:29pm - 0 attachments
- Depressed Females Have Over-Active Glutamate Receptor Gene
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... in the brain. Schizophrenia, epilepsy, autism and Alzheimer's disease have all been linked to abnormalities of the glutamate ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2015 - 6:30am - 0 attachments
- Coffee Consumption Linked To Lower Risk Of Mild Cognitive Impairment
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... follow-up. These findings are published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is considered a prodromal stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia. As no effective treatment exists to ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2015 - 3:03pm - 0 attachments
- An Anti-Aging Pill Is Still A Long Way Off
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Last month a team of doctors and scientists made the case to regulators at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to consider approving anti-aging drugs as a new pharmaceutical class. Such a designation would treat aging as disease rather than a ...
Article - The Conversation - Jul 29 2015 - 11:00am - 0 attachments
- Long-Term Memories Maintained By Prion-Like Proteins
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... to a variety of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's. In contrast, functional prion ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2015 - 9:02am - 0 attachments
- Medial Temporal Lobe And How New Memories Are Formed
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In a new study, researchers found that neurons in a specific brain region play a key role in rapidly forming memories about every day events, a finding that may result in a better understanding of memory loss and new methods to fight it in Alzheimer’s a ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2015 - 7:46am - 0 attachments
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