In a study of more than 7,000 people, researchers from Israel found that dementia was 51 percent more common among people with lupus The autoimmune disease is hard to diagnose, because it comes with so many symptoms, sometimes including a ‘brain fog’ Corticosteroids are used to treat lupus, but can also cause memory problems The study authors...
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Studying sleep’s profound and extensive effects on brain function
Although the general benefits of a good night’s sleep are well established, one-third of American adults do not get a sufficient amount of sleep. Recent research sheds new light on the extensive effects of sleep on the brain, as well as the harms caused by sleep loss. The studies were presented at Neuroscience 2017, the...
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Loneliness could kill you
Studies are showing that loneliness can be deadly, even more so than obesity. Independence is glorified in North American culture as a symbol of strength. As a society, we value individual achievement and extol self-reliance. I am expert on aging and retirement and I also help employees transition from work to retirement by facilitating seminars...
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Breathing Pure Oxygen Could Repair Brain Damage Years After a Concussion
IN BRIEF Researchers from Tel Aviv University have shown that treating post-concussion syndrome patients with pure oxygen helps to regrow blood vessels and nerve endings. This could help to alleviate cognitive symptoms ranging from headaches to mood changes. BRAIN REPAIR Researchers have revisited hyperbaric oxygen sessions as a possible treatment for brain damage sustained after...
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Gelatin accelerates healing of the blood brain barrier in acute brain injury
Researchers already know that gelatin-covered electrode implants cause less damage to brain tissue than electrodes with no gelatin coating. Researchers at the Neuronano Research Centre (NRC) at Lund University in Sweden have now shown that microglia, the brain’s cleansing cells, and the enzymes that the cells use in the cleaning process, change in the presence...
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Autism treatments may restore brain connections
The diagram above illustrates how the absence or presence of the KCTD13 gene affects the ability of neurons to communicate. When the gene is absent, the protein RhoA proliferates and reduces connections between neurons by half. A drug that …more Scientists have identified a pair of treatments that may restore brain function to autism patients...
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Blood-clotting protein prevents repair in the brain
Picture a bare wire, without its regular plastic coating. It’s exposed to the elements and risks being degraded. And, without insulation, it may not conduct electricity as well as a coated wire. Now, imagine this wire is inside your brain. That’s what happens in many diseases of the nervous system, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), spinal cord injuries,...
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Promise seen in possible treatment for autism spectrum disorder
In searching for a potential therapeutic for autism spectrum disorder, researchers have found that R-Baclofen reverses cognitive deficits and improves social interactions in two lines of 16p11.2 deletion mice. Human chromosome 16p11.2 deletion syndrome is caused by the absence of about 27 genes on chromosome 16. This deletion is characterized by intellectual disability; impaired...
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New database to connect neurodegenerative disease community
Researchers studying neurodegenerative disease can now look up cohort studies and make connections through a new online database. The JPND Global Cohort Portalopens in new window, created by the EU Joint Programme in Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) for which the MRC is a founder member, is a searchable online database of neurodegenerative disease cohort studies. Long-term...
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Researchers probe brain disease-causing proteins at the atomic level
A change in a single amino acid determines which species are vulnerable, study finds COLUMBUS, Ohio—Researchers studying a protein that causes a hereditary degenerative brain disease in humans have discovered that the human, mouse and hamster forms of the protein, which have nearly identical amino acid sequences, exhibit distinct three-dimensional structures at the atomic level....