http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Childhood adversity can lead to chronic physical and mental disability in adult life and have an effect on the next generation, underscoring the importance of research, practice and policy in addressing this issue, according to a Viewpoint in the May 1 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on child health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-shadow-childhood-adversity.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:07:06 EST news286535071 (Medical Xpress)—For many years, breast cancer patients have reported experiencing difficulties with memory, concentration and other cognitive functions following cancer treatment. Whether this mental "fogginess" is psychosomatic or reflects underlying changes in brain function has been a bone of contention among scientists and physicians. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-chemo-brain-involve-neurophysiological.html Cancer Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:58:42 EST news285580696 Children prenatally exposed to methadone or Subutex (buprenorphine) are prone to developing cognitive difficulties. According to one researcher, these children still need close follow-up after they begin school. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-methadone-children-problems-school.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:00:02 EST news285309982 A study in the JAMA Neurology (formerly the Archives of Neurology) suggests that controlling or preventing risk factors such as hypertension earlier in life may limit or delay the brain changes associated with Alzheimer's disease and other age-related neurological deterioration. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-uncontrolled-hypertension-alzheimer-disease.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:36:24 EST news282850567 The memory problems that many women experience in their 40s and 50s as they approach and go through menopause are both real and appear to be most acute during the early period of post menopause. That is the conclusion of a study which appears today in the journal Menopause. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cognitive-difficulties-menopause.html Other Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:44:48 EST news276428682 Johns Hopkins researchers report the successful use of a form of MRI to identify what appears to be a key biochemical marker for cognitive impairment in the brains of people with multiple sclerosis (MS). In follow-up experiments on mice with a rodent form of MS, researchers were able to use an experimental compound to manipulate that same marker and dramatically improve learning and memory. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-experimental-compound-memory-mice-multiple.html Neuroscience Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:00:10 EST news272537518 (Medical Xpress)—A team of Australian researchers, led by University of Melbourne has developed a genetic test that is able to predict the risk of developing Autism Spectrum Disorder, ASD. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-genetic-at-risk-autism-spectrum-disorder.html Autism spectrum disorders Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:26:30 EST news266655952 (Medical Xpress) -- Children with a rare syndrome that includes a form of insulin-dependent diabetes have brain abnormalities that appear to set the stage for cognitive problems later in life, according to new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-brain-abnormalities-children-severe-diabetes.html Medical research Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:03:13 EST news261295306 Children who are exposed to community violence continue to exhibit a physical stress response up to a year after the exposure, suggesting that exposure to violence may have long-term negative health consequences, according researchers at Penn State and University College London. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-exposure-violence-long-term-stress-effects.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:34:03 EST news260533955 Women undergoing treatment for breast cancer can experience cognitive declines, such as decreased verbal fluency or loss of memory and attention. Often experienced by patients undergoing chemotherapy, the declines have become known as "chemo brain." However, a health psychologist at the University of Missouri says "chemo brain" isn't always to blame. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-stress-contributes-cognitive-declines-women.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:09:14 EST news253372146 The difficulties that many women describe as memory problems when menopause approaches are real, according to a study published today in the journal Menopause, the journal of the North American Menopause Society. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-brain-fog-menopause.html Medical research Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:23:08 EST news250942976 Bingo, a popular activity in nursing homes, senior centers and assisted-living facilities, has benefits that extend well beyond socializing. Researchers found high-contrast, large bingo cards boost thinking and playing skills for people with cognitive difficulties and visual perception problems produced by Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-bingo-game-perception-deficits.html Neuroscience Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:31:36 EST news244812673 A new analysis has found that breast cancer survivors may experience problems with certain mental abilities several years after treatment, regardless of whether they were treated with chemotherapy plus radiation or radiation only. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study indicates that there may be common and treatment-specific ways that cancer therapies negatively affect cancer survivors' mental abilities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-breast-cancer-survivors-struggle-cognitive.html Cancer Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:00:09 EST news242884795 When a person with mild cognitive impairment is agitated or restless, caregivers can expect to find they are more edgy as well. According to research conducted at Virginia Tech, the more a caregiver's day is disrupted by the unsettled behaviors of their loved one, the more they find themselves unable to meet or balance their own home and family work loads. This heightens the effect of elevated stress levels on their own bodies, placing caregivers at risk for current and future health problems. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-caregivers-health-problems.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:15:48 EST news241712136 Football players experience repeated head trauma throughout their careers, which results in short and long-term effects to their cognitive function, physical and mental health. University of Missouri researchers are investigating how other lifestyle factors, including diet and exercise, impact the late-life health of former collision-sport athletes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-football-players-prone-late-life-health.html Health Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:04:48 EST news240066277 Middle-aged adults at risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) can perceive and complain about related cognitive difficulties long before standard neuropsychological screening tools detect any problems, according to a recent study from The University of Texas at Austin. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-self-reported-cognitive-difficulties-early-cerebrovascular.html Cardiology Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:29:56 EST news237101354 A structural variation in a part of the brain may explain why some people are better than others at distinguishing real events from those they might have imagined or been told about, researchers have found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-track-reality.html Neuroscience Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:26:36 EST news236967988 Yale University researchers can't tell you where you left your car keys- but they can tell you why you can't find them. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-memory-lost-.html Medical research Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:00:07 EST news230985655