http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Considerable opportunity exists to improve interventions and outcomes of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in older adults, according to three studies published in the recent online issue of NeuroRehabilitation by researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-effects-traumatic-brain-injury.html Neuroscience Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:07:02 EST news283691213 Research from the University of North Carolina has shown that children at risk of developing schizophrenia have brains that function differently than those not at risk. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-brain-children-schizophrenia-predate-onset.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:58:12 EST news283190282 Cognitive impairments are disabling for individuals with schizophrenia, and no satisfactory treatments currently exist. These impairments affect a wide range of cognition, including memory, attention, verbal and motor skills, and IQ. They appear in the earliest stages of the disease and disrupt or even prevent normal day-to-day functioning. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-brain-magnetic-memory-schizophrenia.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:03:32 EST news282308606 (Medical Xpress)—A team of sleep researchers led by UC Riverside psychologist Sara C. Mednick has confirmed the mechanism that enables the brain to consolidate memory and found that a commonly prescribed sleep aid enhances the process. Those discoveries could lead to new sleep therapies that will improve memory for aging adults and those with dementia, Alzheimer's and schizophrenia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-mechanism-critical-memory-ambien.html Neuroscience Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:42:57 EST news282300163 (HealthDay)—In a small study of former NFL players, about one quarter were found to have "mild cognitive impairment," or problems with thinking and memory, a rate slightly higher than expected in the general population. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-brain-small-nfl-players.html Neuroscience Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:00:01 EST news276803030 Decreased kidney function is associated with decreased cognitive functioning in areas such as global cognitive ability, abstract reasoning and verbal memory, according to a study led by Temple University. This is the first study describing change in multiple domains of cognitive functioning in order to determine which specific abilities are most affected in individuals with impaired renal function. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-decreased-kidney-function-cognitive-functioning.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:20:01 EST news272473929 (HealthDay)—For white middle-aged adults, there may be an association between variants in a gene associated with fat mass and obesity (FTO) and memory decline, according to research published online Nov. 7 in Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-fat-gene-variants-linked-middle.html Neuroscience Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:00:01 EST news271593336 Changes in the ability to smell and taste can be caused by a simple cold or upper respiratory tract infection, but they may also be among the first signs of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Now, new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has revealed an association between an impaired sense of smell and myasthenia gravis (MG), a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease characterized by fluctuating fatigue and muscle weakness. The findings are published in the latest edition of PLOS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-association-rare-neuromuscular-disorder-loss.html Neuroscience Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:00:08 EST news269705411 Eating cocoa flavanols daily may improve mild cognitive impairment, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Hypertension. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-consuming-flavanol-rich-cocoa-brain-function.html Cardiology Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:00:05 EST news264091961 Treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in children normalizes disturbances in the neuronal network responsible for attention and executive function, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-treatment-childhood-obstructive-apnea-reverses.html Sleep apnea Sun, 20 May 2012 13:31:15 EST news256739462 Auditory working memory and attention, for example the ability to hear and then remember instructions while completing a task, are a necessary part of musical ability. But musical ability is also related to verbal memory and literacy in childhood. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Behavioral and Brain Functions shows how auditory working memory and musical aptitude are intrinsically related to reading ability, and provides a biological basis for this link. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-musical-aptitude-ability.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:00:01 EST news238044344 Adults who consume dairy products at least once daily have higher cognitive function than those who rarely or never drink milk or eat dairy foods, according to a new study by researchers from the University of South Australia and University of Maine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-dairy-products-adult-diets-cognitive.html Health Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:11:50 EST news236322694 (Medical Xpress) -- Older patients with lower rates of left ventricular ejection fraction (a measure of how well the left ventricle of the heart pumps with each contraction) appear more likely than younger patients to have significantly reduced verbal memory function, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-age-severity-heart-failure-impairment.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 09 Aug 2011 02:20:02 EST news232073933 Many patients who undergo bone marrow or blood stem cell transplantation to treat blood cancers or a "pre-leukemic" condition called myelodysplasia experience a decline in mental and fine motor skills due to the toll of their disease and its treatment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-patients-recover-chemo-brain-years-stem.html Cancer Tue, 03 May 2011 11:08:12 EST news223639658 A study in the May 1 issue of the journal Sleep describes how changes in sleep that occur over a five-year period in late middle age affect cognitive function in later life. The findings suggest that women and men who begin sleeping more or less than 6 to 8 hours per night are subject to an accelerated cognitive decline that is equivalent to four to seven years of aging. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-adverse-duration-cognitive-scores-middle-aged.html Health Sun, 01 May 2011 06:40:02 EST news223449470