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Sixty per cent of people think politicians are not doing enough to improve care for older people according to a survey by Age Concern and Help the Aged. The poll also found that eight out of ten adults believe care reform is among the most important issues in the forthcoming election...
Having a purpose in life may help ward off Alzheimer's disease, a new study suggests.
Sixty per cent of people think politicians are not doing enough to improve care for older people according to a survey by Age Concern and Help the Aged. (Source: Alzheimers Society)
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Everyone has been there. You are about to get into an accident, your heart races, your mind is completely focused on the oncoming car, time seems to slow, your thoughts become crystal clear. It's a near-death experience that you never forget. Your "stress response" has helped you to survive.Here's another scenario: your boss is shouting at you, your kids are sick, bills are piling up, life is getting really stressful on a chronic basis, day after day, and... after a while, you can't think straight! Your mind is racing, you have trouble paying attention and focusing, memory is impaired, worries abound, you can't make decisions or you make bad decisions, and depression may set in. Now the "stress response" is impairing your brain.What's going on here??Let's go back to basic biology. Long ago...
Accera, Inc., a biotechnology company delivering breakthrough therapies in central nervous system diseases, announced data which showed that augmentation with ketone bodies significantly improved cognitive function in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. An early feature of AD is region specific declines in cerebral glucose metabolism...
Accera, Inc., a biotechnology company delivering breakthrough therapies in central nervous system diseases, announced data which showed that augmentation with ketone bodies significantly improved cognitive function in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. An early feature of AD is region specific declines in cerebral glucose metabolism. One strategy has been to supplement the brain's normal glucose supply with ketone bodies. The company's data was drawn from two clinical studies which examined the cognitive effects of induced ketosis... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Accera, Inc., a biotechnology company delivering breakthrough therapies in central nervous system diseases, announced data which showed that augmentation with ketone bodies significantly improved cognitive function in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. An early feature of AD is region specific declines in cerebral glucose metabolism... (Source: Alzheimer's / Dementia News From Medical News Today)
We present these findings in protest of the way in which they were acquired.For more information:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20085274
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Conclusions and implications: Our data suggest that soluble A[beta]-treated rats have a depressive, but not anxiogenic-like, profile, accompanied by brain region-dependent alterations in the expression of neurotrophins and 5-hydroxytryptaminergic neurotransmission. Hence, these alterations induced by soluble A[beta] might be sensitive indicators of early phases of AD and possible risk factors for the expression of neuropsychiatric symptoms in AD. (Source: British Journal of Pharmacology)
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