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Insulin Resistance, Behavioral Disorders Linked

... and other neurodegenerative conditions, especially Alzheimer's disease. Clinical studies have shown that patients with Alzheimer's demonstrate reduced levels of certain insulin signaling proteins, ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2015 - 9:45am - 0 attachments

New Compounds Protect Nervous System From Structural Damage Of MS

... in diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Alzheimer's disease. The study was conducted in collaboration with ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2015 - 2:58am - 0 attachments

Young Adult Brains Have Amyloid Clumps Linked To Alzheimer's

... protein whose accumulation in the brain is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, starts accumulating inside neurons of people as young as ...  on brains obtained from the Northwestern University Alzheimer's Disease Center Brain Bank and from pathologists throughout the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 2 2015 - 11:31am - 0 attachments

Whole Food Diet Linked To Greater Cognitive Dysfunction In Alzheimer’s

... al. detail their study using a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's Disease and found that a whole food diet caused mice with their equivalent of Alzheimer's to do worse on tests of strategic learning and spatial memory. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 27 2015 - 10:41am - 0 attachments

Coffee Linked To Reduced Risk Of Multiple Sclerosis

... has been associated with a reduced risk of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, and our study shows that coffee intake may also protect ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 26 2015 - 5:00pm - 0 attachments

ANAVEX 2-73 Preserves Mitochondrial Integrity, Prevents Alzheimer's Disease In Mice

... apoptosis (cell death) in a nontransgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Mitochondrial damages have been consistently reported as an early cause of Alzheimer's disease and appear before amyloid-beta plaques and memory decline ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 26 2015 - 12:20am - 0 attachments

Evolving A Bigger Brain With Human DNA

... but also why people get some diseases, such as autism and Alzheimer's disease, whereas chimpanzees don't. The human version ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2015 - 10:30am - 0 attachments

Nicotine Metabolite Amplifies Action Of The Primary Chemical Messenger For Learning And Memory

... of the messenger acetylcholine, which are typical in Alzheimer's, and may boost effectiveness, at least for a time, of existing therapies for Alzheimer's and possibly other memory and psychiatric disorders. The ... by cholinergic neurons, a target in diseases such as Alzheimer's. The first sign of damage is these brain cells start pulling back ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2015 - 12:12pm - 0 attachments

Nicotine Supports Learning And Memory

... of the messenger acetylcholine, which are typical in Alzheimer's, and may boost effectiveness, at least for a time, of existing therapies for Alzheimer's and possibly other memory and psychiatric disorders. The ... by cholinergic neurons, a target in diseases such as Alzheimer's. The first sign of damage is these brain cells start pulling back ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2015 - 10:31am - 0 attachments

More DNA And Extra Copies Of Disease Gene In Alzheimer's Brain Cells

... genomic changes in single neurons from the brains of Alzheimer's patients, pointing to an unexpected factor that may underpin the ... February 4, 2015 in the online journal eLife, shows that Alzheimer's brains commonly have many neurons with significantly more DNA and ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2015 - 6:05pm - 0 attachments