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• Neuroimaging provides insights into new treatment options for Alzheimers disease

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 621
  Amsterdam, November 10, 2009 -- With about 35 million people around the world suffering from Alzheimers disease (AD) by the year 2010 and an expectation that these numbers will double every twent
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• Is Surgery a Cause of Alzheimers Disease?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Last blog, we talked about head trauma as a risk factor for Alzheimers disease, stimulated by recent press regarding potentially hundreds of NFL players suffering dementia. But to put the NFL issue in perspective, there are many other modifiable and preventable risk factors for dementia with far more importance in ...
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• Sleep apnea therapy ‘helps golfers improve their game’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Washington, Nov 3 (ANI): A new study has revealed that golfers who undergo treatment for obstructive sleep apnea are likely to improve their golf game along with the overall health.The researchers showed that golfers with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) who received nasal positive airway pressure (NPAP) for their ...
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• Clinical tests begin on medication to correct Fragile X defect

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 621
  NIH-supported scientists at Seaside Therapeutics in Cambridge, Mass., are beginning a clinical trial of a potential medication designed to correct a central neurochemical defect underlying Fragile
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• November 1, 2009 Hashimoto’s AutoImmune Thyroiditis, a Mini-Memoir Moment

  
  WORD ZOO — Authority: 122
      When ‘Brain Fog’ Is Real   This post is for one person suffering in a confusional state and not yet heard by the medical profession that Something Is Most Definitely Wrong . In revisit of journal to understand some of the extremes of ‘brain fog’ suffered in 2009 I uneasily recall ...
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• Older patients with dementia at increased risk for flu mortality

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 621
  BOSTON (October 27, 2009) -- An epidemiological study on pneumonia and influenza (P&I) in adults age 65 and over reports that patients with dementia are diagnosed with flu less frequently, have sh
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• Fighting Sleep, Penn Researchers Reverse the Cognitive Impairment Caused By Sleep Deprivation: University of Pennsylvania

  
  My Mind, Body & Health — Authority: 154
  A research collaboration led by biologists and neuroscientists at the University of Pennsylvania has found a molecular pathway in the brain that is the cause of cognitive impairment due to sleep deprivation. Just as important, the team believes that the cognitive deficits caused by sleep deprivation, such as an ...
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• 11 Basics to Understanding Multiple Sclerosis

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 605
  Multiple sclerosis is the ultimate player. First you see it, then you don’t. If you are confused about MS, you are far from alone.First, what it is not: multiple sclerosis is not the same as muscular dystrophy or cerebral palsy. All people with MS are not in wheelchairs. It’s not a psychological problem.So what is ...
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• Does Coffee Boost Brain/ Cognitive Functions Over Time?

  
  SharpBrains — Authority: 598
  A few eternal questions: - Is caffeine good for the brain? - Does it boost cognitive functions? - Does it protect against dementia? There is little doubt that drinking that cup of morning coffee will likely increase alertness, but the main questions that research is trying to answer go beyond that. Basically: is ...
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• Major Symposium About Vagus Nerve Stimulation & Depression at the American Psychiatric Associati

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  A major symposium about vagus nerve stimulation as a treatment for chronic or recurrent depression will be presented at the American Psychiatric Association’s Annual Meeting in May. This is the largest gathering of psychiatrists in the world and over 25,000 psychiatrists will be in attendance.On February 3, 2005, ...
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• Is Alzheimers disease preventable? What the NFL Tells Us

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  There has been a lot of recent press regarding the presence of cognitive impairment and even dementia in NFL players who have suffered repeated head trauma and concussions. But this is not a new story. Indeed, the observation that head trauma could cause dementia was first made in the 1920s when the term "dementia ...
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• Change Your Life Forever with New Medical Breakthrough Treatment for Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  With the next few weeks, the FDA is expected to issue its final approval of vagus nerve stimulation as a treatment for chronic or recurrent depression. The approval of vagus nerve stimulation will be the first ever FDA approved long-term treatment option for the four million desperate Americans( and their families) ...
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• Fruits, vegetables boost cognition, antioxidant levels

  
  iHealthBulletin News — Authority: 132
  IOSPress.com - Scientists at the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I of the Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany, investigated the relationship between fruits and vegetables intake, plasma antioxidant micronutrient status and cognitive performance in healthy subjects aged 45 to 102 years. ...
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