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UCI researchers restore memory process in most common form of mental disability
10-05-2007 · EurekAlert!University of California, Irvine scientists have discovered how to reverse the learning and memory problems inherent in the most common form of mental impairment.
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- High-normal uric acid linked with mild cognitive impairment in the elderly
01-01-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins and Yale university medical schools have found that a simple blood test to measure uric acid, a measure of kidney function, might reveal a risk factor for cognitive problems in old age. Of 96 community-dwelling adults aged 60 to 92 years, those with uric-acid levels at the high end of the normal range had the lowest scores on tests of mental processing speed, verbal memory and working memory.
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- MIT corrects inherited retardation, autism in mice
12-19-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have corrected key symptoms of mental retardation and autism in mice. The work indicates that a certain class of drugs could have the same effect in humans.
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- New therapy could preserve vessel function after heart attack
09-10-2007 · EurekAlert!
Scientists have identified the process that causes blood vessels to constrict during and after a heart attack. They've also demonstrated that delivering a vital molecule that is depleted during this process directly to those blood vessels can reverse damage and help restore blood flow. The medical researchers say these findings have the potential to improve outcomes for patients with acute coronary episodes related to ischemia, and to ameliorate the restriction of blood supply to the heart.
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- Carnegie Mellon uses new imaging technique to discover differences in brains of people with autism
10-23-2006 · EurekAlert!
Using a new form of brain imaging known as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), researchers in the Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered that the so-called white matter in the brains of people with autism has lower structural integrity than in the brains of normal individuals. This provides further evidence that the anatomical differences characterizing the brains of people with autism are related to the way those brains process information.
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- Fighting diseases of aging by wasting energy
12-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
By making the skeletal muscles of mice use energy less efficiently, researchers report in the December issue of Cell Metabolism, a publication of Cell Press, that they have delayed the animals' deaths and their development of age-related diseases, including vascular disease, obesity, and one form of cancer. Those health benefits, driven by an increased metabolic rate, appear to come without any direct influence on the aging process itself, according to the researchers.
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- Brain network related to intelligence identified
09-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers have uncovered evidence of a distinct neurobiology of human intelligence. This Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory identifies a network related to intelligence, one primarily involving areas in the frontal and the parietal lobes. The data suggest that some of the brain areas related to intelligence are the same areas related to attention, memory and language. This possible integration of cognitive functions suggests that intelligence levels might be based on how efficient the frontal-parietal networks process information.
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- Blood test takes step toward predicting Alzheimer's risk, Stanford researchers find
10-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
One of the most distressing aspects of Alzheimer's disease is the difficulty in determining whether mild memory problems are the beginning of an inevitable mental decline. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a blood test that is a step toward giving people an answer two to six years in advance of the onset of the disease.
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- Do shopping lists promote or prevent healthy choices?
03-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
A new study reveals an unexpected situation when you may opt for a sinful dessert like cheesecake over a healthy alternative like a fruit salad. Comparing memory-based and stimulus-based decision making, researchers from Duke, UCLA, and the University of Florida found that trying to recall what options are available -- such as when making a shopping list at home -- uses mental resources that might otherwise be used to counter impulsive choices.
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- Vaccine thwarts the tangles of Alzheimer's
08-21-2007 · EurekAlert!
A new study by NYU Medical Center researchers shows for the first time that the immune system can combat the pathological form of tau protein, a key protein implicated in Alzheimer's disease. The researchers, led by Einar Sigurdsson Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and pathology at New York University School of Medicine, created a vaccine in mice that suppresses aggregates of tau. The protein accumulates into harmful tangles in the memory center of the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
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- Early HIV treatment fails to restore memory T cells
12-04-2006 · EurekAlert!
Most of the body's memory T cells vanish within weeks after a person is infected with the HIV virus. In a study from the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center and the Bernard-Nocht Institute appearing in the international open-access journal PLoS Medicine, researchers report that these memory T cells, mostly found in the digestive tract, tend not to return to normal even after years of treatment for HIV.
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