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• Mood Improves on Low-Fat, but not Low-Carb, Diet Plan

  
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  After one year, a low-calorie, low-fat diet appears more beneficial to dieters’ mood than a low-carbohydrate plan with the same number of calories, according to a report in the November 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.Obese individuals who lose weight tend to have an ...
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• Reduced Muscle Strength Associated With Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease

  
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  Individuals with weaker muscles appear to have a higher risk for Alzheimer’s disease and declines in cognitive function over time, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by declines in memory and other cognitive ...
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• Teenage Obesity Linked to Increased Risk of MS

  
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  Teenage women who are obese may be more than twice as likely to develop multiple sclerosis (MS) as adults compared to female teens who are not obese, according to a study published in the November 10, 2009, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.The research involved ...
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• New Thoughts on Memory

  
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  Traditionally, scientists have believed long-term and short-term memories were formed by different processes within the brain. This theory is now being challenged by researchers from University College London. Historically, the position of a different process for memories was based on observation of patients with ...
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• Dieters Face Similar Problems as Drug Abusers

  
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  Researchers have discovered irregular eating of foods rich in fat and sugar can cause changes in the brain comparable to those observed in drug dependence. According to Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) scientists, their findings may explain how abstinence from these foods contributes to relapse eating ...
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• U-M Receives $1.8 Million To Develop Therapy For Neuropathic Pain

  
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  Researchers from the University of Michigan Department of Neurology have received a $1.8 million dollar grant to develop a novel therapy for neuropathic pain, a difficult to treat condition in which patients experience pain because of damage to nerve without obvious tissue injury.
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• Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience: Dementia in Clinical Practice by P. Giannakopoulos

  
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  Publisher: S. Karger AG | ISBN: 3805590156 | edition 2009 | PDF | 184 pages | 14,9 mb Doody Review Services Reviewer:Bryan Woodruff, MD (Mayo Clinic Hospital) Description:The editors present a succinct compilation of current clinical knowledge of the most commonly encountered dementia syndromes. Each section ...
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• Overweight as teenager doubles risk of multiple sclerosis in women

  
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  AAN.com - Teenage women who are obese may be more than twice as likely to develop multiple sclerosis (MS) as adults compared to female teens who are not obese, according to a study published in the November 10, 2009 issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.The research involved ...
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• U-M Receives $1.8 Million to Develop Therapy for Neuropathic Pain

  
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  Researchers from the University of Michigan Department of Neurology have received a $1.8 million dollar grant to develop a novel therapy for neuropathic pain, a difficult to treat condition in which patients experience pain because of damage to nerve without obvious tissue injury.In previously published studies, these ...
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• What Celebrity Names Can Reveal about the Onset of Alzheimer’s Disease

  
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  Research that is targeting the early diagnosis of Alzheimer disease has drawn national attention to the work of Michael Seidenberg, PhD, a faculty member at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science.Dr. Seidenberg, a professor in the university’s Department of Psychology, is the lead author of an article ...
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• Autism Research Update

  
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  A recent meeting by The Autism Consortium gave scientists, clinicians, advocates and parents an opportunity to share the latest information on causes of autism and their implications for diagnosis, prognosis and therapies. The symposium’s scope and attendance doubled this year, with an increase in scientific ...
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• Ten Techniques for Fast Relaxation: Relaxing Music

  
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  “Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul” -Plato We have all experienced the calming power of music. It only makes sense to use it in the cultivation of consciousness! If you have been following this series, you will have already read about 5 of our Ten Techniques for Fast ...
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• Genetix Pharmaceuticals Announces Global Clinical Plans To Treat Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)

  
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  Genetix Pharmaceuticals, a leader in gene therapy of somatic stem cells, announced the companys clinical program to treat Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). The company is developing a gene therapy product in collaboration with Professor Patrick Aubourg and Doctor Nathalie Cartier of the National Institute of Health and ...
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• Nicotinic Receptor Deletion Could Result In Developmental Delay

  
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  The loss of a gene through deletion of genetic material on chromosome 15 is associated with significant abnormalities in learning and behavior, said a consortium of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears online in the journal Nature Genetics.
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• Nanomedicine Promising For Treating Spinal Cord Injuries

  
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  Researchers at Purdue University have discovered a new approach for repairing damaged nerve fibers in spinal cord injuries using nano-spheres that could be injected into the blood shortly after an accident. The synthetic "copolymer micelles" are drug-delivery spheres about 60 nanometers in diameter, or roughly 100 ...
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• $6-Million NIH Grant To Study Rare Brain Disease

  
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  Brown University, in collaboration with two other institutions, has been awarded a five-year, $6-million National Institutes of Health program project grant to help determine how a virus that can cause a rare brain disease attaches to host cells. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) occurs in patients ...
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• High Serum and CSF Urate Levels may Slow the Rate of Clinical Decline of PD

  
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  Urate is a superoxide, peroxynitrite and hydroxyl radical scavenger, and iron chelator and ascorbate stabilizer. Previous researches have shown that people with higher urate levels are at a lower risk of Parkinson disease (PD), by virtue of its antioxidant effect. These include persons with gout and those who consume ...
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• Dan Agin: Armistice Day, the Great War, and Brains: A Tale of Woe

  
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  What do we remember? Veteran’s DayNovember 11thwas once called Armistice Day, the day the mangled soldiers started coming home in 1918.source : www.topix.com
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• Can’t Sleep Because Of Your Back Pain?

  
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  Do you need a good nights sleep? Have you been up most of the night because of back pain? You may have insomnia because of your back pain. I personally have treated many patients that were suffering from this problem. I can tell you that I have treated thousands of patients for back pain, and prior to seeing them many ...
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• Changes in Hippocampal Metabolites After Effective Fibromyalgia Treatment

  
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  The Clinical Journal of Pain just published a case study that evaluates the impact of fibromyalgia on hippocampal brain metabolite ratios. Researchers at the Department of Family Medicine, Anesthesiology and Psychiatry at Louisiana State Universitys Biomedical Research Institute based this case study on the results ...
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