Category Archives: Health Benefits

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Sat, 07/11/2015

When Jamie Tyrone found out that she carries a gene that gives her a 91 percent chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease beginning around age 65, she sank into a depression so deep that at times she wanted to end her life.
Tyrone, a registered nurSee Original Article

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Mon, 07/13/2015

Ultra-high resolution imaging tools like 7-Tesla MRI now allowresearchers to glimpse the brain in extraordinary detail, openingthe door to new diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders.
Two imaging advances in particular – focused ultrasoundSee Original Article

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Sun, 06/21/2015

It’s the conversation no adult child wants to have, the family dynamic few want to discuss publicly. But the pain pours out on an Alzheimer’s help line, where middle-aged sons and daughters call crying, afraid to tell mom or dad it’s time to stoSee Original Article

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Tue, 07/21/2015

Women who develop slight but detectable deficits in memory and mental acuity late in life tend to decline faster than men with mild impairment, researchers reported on Tuesday.
Some two-thirds of the five million Americans with Alzheimer’s disease aSee Original Article

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Thu, 07/23/2015

At the annual Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in July 2015, scientists report some encouraging news about the benefits of exercise. In the first studies to look at physical activity among people already diagnosed with the early stagSee Original Article

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Wed, 07/15/2015

Type 2 diabetes is known to put individuals at risk for numerous health complications. Now, a study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center sheds new light on the often-overlooked toll that diabetes canSee Original Article

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Wed, 07/08/2015

We will be posting a new pay line for Alzheimer’s research, and I want to alert you to two important facts around it. First, the new pay lines are nine percentage points higher than our general RPG pay line and show advantages in other lines too,See Original Article

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Wed, 06/10/2015

There’s evidence that such activities do little to change the underlying drivers of Alzheimer’s, but doctors say they delay symptoms.

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Opens up new avenues of research into human neuronal systems and interconnections, according to Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience reportHuman stem cells can be differentiated to produce…
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Dopamine-producing neurons fulfil important function in the brainNerve cells that produce dopamine for the purpose of transmitting signals to other cells affect numerous crucial brain functions.
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Tue, 05/05/2015

The past year has been a hopeful one in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. New findings have brought clarity to understanding the disease’s progress; new drugs to attack it are in trials.
Rudolph Tanzi, the Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy ProfesSee Original Article

Pharmaceutical researchers at UNC are the first to use exosomes — lipid-and-protein spheres produced by cells — as vehicles to deliver a potent large-molecule drug to the brainResearchers…
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