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New drug trial aims to prevent Alzheimer's before it starts
TIME Magazine
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Researchers will test an experimental drug that could prevent Alzheimer's disease in people who are genetically slated to develop Alzheimer's disease but have yet to exhibit symptoms.
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Beginning statins in the hospital after a stroke increases odds of going home
Los Angeles Times
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Giving stroke victims cholesterol-lowering statins while they are still in the hospital increases the likelihood that they will survive the stroke and be able to go home, researchers reported.
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Treating sleep apnea in children reverses brain abnormalities
Psych Central
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Treating obstructive sleep apnea in children can improve attention and verbal memory, according to a new study. "OSA is known to be associated with deficits in attention, cognition and executive function," said lead author Dr. Ann Halbower, associate professor at the Children's Hospital Sleep Center and University of Colorado-Denver. "Our study is the first to show that treatment of OSA in children can reverse neuronal brain injury, correlated with improvements in attention and verbal memory in these patients."
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Determining how brain acid affects brain function
Medical News Today
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A study by Iowa University neuroscientist John Wemmie, M.D., Ph.D. and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition reveals that elevated acidity or low pH-levels are associated with panic disorders, anxiety and depression and that changes in the brain's acidity are significant for normal brain activity.
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Fatty diet preventing seizures may lead to epilepsy drugs
Bloomberg
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A fatty diet that helps control epileptic seizures may do so by triggering a chemical change in the brain, a discovery that could lead to new treatments, according to a Harvard University study.
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Oxytocin activates brain function in autistic kids
New York Daily News
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Oxytocin, often referred to as a love hormone, boosts activity in brain areas of autistic children involving sight, hearing and understanding other people. These are the preliminary results from an ongoing, large-scale study led by postoctoral fellow IIanit Gordon and Kevin Pelphrey, associate professor of child psychiatry and psychology at the Yale School of Medicine.
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Parenting with a brain disease: Inside the mind of frontotemporal degeneration
Forbes
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A young patient with a rare brain disease tells what it's like to be a husband and father, while watching his capabilities and his freedoms dwindle.
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Rod through Phineas Gage's brain caused more damage than thought
Los Angeles Times
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The tamping rod that blew through Phineas Gage's brain 163 years ago damaged only a small portion of his brain, but it disrupted a much larger proportion of his neural connections, UCLA researchers reported. The finding, based on imaging of Gage's skull, may help explain the behavioral changes he endured following the accident.
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Study: Immune cells change wiring of the developing mouse brain
Medical Xpress
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Researchers have shown in mice how immune cells in the brain target and remove unused connections between brain cells during normal development. This research, supported by the National Institute of Health, sheds light on how brain activity influences brain development, and highlights the newly found importance of the immune system in how the brain is wired, as well as how the brain forms new connections throughout life in response to change.
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