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Clue to cause of Alzheimer's dementia found in brain samples

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found a key difference in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease and those who are cognitively normal but still have brain plaques that characterize ...

Neuroscience created Oct 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

ACR: Strontium ranelate cuts progression of knee OA

(HealthDay)—The osteoporosis therapeutic strontium ranelate (SrRan) reduces radiographic and radiological progression of knee osteoarthritis, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the ...

Arthritis & Rheumatism created Nov 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists report promising new direction for cognitive rehabilitation in the elderly

Research has found that declines in temporal information processing (TIP), the rate at which auditory information is processed, underlies the progressive loss of function across multiple cognitive systems in the elderly, ...

Neuroscience created Aug 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Older subjects who regularly practice Tai Chi found to have better arterial compliance

Exercise which can achieve both cardiovascular function and muscle strength "would be a preferred mode of training for older persons", say investigators

Cardiology created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Shedding light on memory deficits in schizophrenic patients and healthy aged subjects

Working memory, which consists in the short-term retention and processing of information, depends on specific regions of the brain working correctly. This faculty tends to deteriorate in patients with schizophrenia, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New findings, imaging may aid diagnosis of concomitant AD in patients with Parkinson's disease dementia

Dementia is a frequent complication of Parkinson's disease (PD), but it is clinically impossible to distinguish PD dementia (PDD), which develops from the progression of the Lewy body pathology that underlies PD, from PD ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tall and thin not so great for lung disease

Tall, thin women face a greater risk of infection with nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), cousins of the organism that causes tuberculosis, according to researchers at National Jewish Health. Women with NTM infections also ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 23, 2013 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Physical activity shown to help young and elderly alike with lower-leg coordination

An Indiana University study that examined the effect of age and physical activity on lower leg muscle reflexes and coordination concluded that participation in physical activity was beneficial for lower leg muscle coordination ...

Neuroscience created Oct 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The secret to successful aging

Whether we choose to accept or fight it, the fact is that we will all age, but will we do so successfully? Aging successfully has been linked with the "positivity effect", a biased tendency towards and preference for positive, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0