Hypertension is a leading risk factor for dementia and other disorders associated with cognitive decline. Blood flow to the brain is tightly controlled by several mechanisms that malfunction when blood pressure is abnormally ...
Nov 14, 2016
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Age-related dementia will affect 10 percent of people in the U.S. within their lifetime.
Nov 10, 2016
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Researchers in the University of Kentucky College of Public Health and UK College of Medicine recently published a landmark study examining the relationships between diabetes and two types of cognitive dysfunction, Alzheimer's ...
Aug 31, 2016
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Alzheimer's is a devastating and incurable disease marked by beta-amyloid and tau protein aggregations in the brain, yet the direct relationship between these proteins and neurodegeneration has remained a mystery. New molecular ...
Jun 13, 2016
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A large study by researchers with the UC Davis MIND Institute has found that a gene whose role is to suppress cellular damage from environmental stressors is nearly twice as likely to be defective in children with autism ...
Mar 31, 2016
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(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers working in Germany has found that giving two different types of amyloid-β antibodies to mice genetically engineered to have Alzheimer's type symptoms caused them to develop a type ...
(HealthDay)—Older women are much more likely than men to suffer brain dysfunction after surgery with general anesthesia, a new study finds.
Jul 21, 2015
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About one-third of patients admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) will develop delirium, a condition that lengthens hospital stays and substantially increases one's risk of dying in the hospital, according to a new study ...
Jun 4, 2015
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A Swiss teenager, recently returned home from a discotheque, came to the emergency department with classic sudden symptoms of stroke, only to be diagnosed with Lyme disease. The highly unusual case presentation was published ...
Mar 2, 2015
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A new review looks at how the brain impacts the sequence of physical and emotional changes that occur as a person participates in sexually stimulating activities.
Mar 2, 2015
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