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...part of revamping of Loker Commons, the grill will take orders from the end of Brain Break at 10:30 p.m. until 1 a.m. Sunday through Thursday. The food stands will be replaced during the day by fly-by. Loker Commons will now remain open until...
Besides moving Brain Break and fly-by to the grill area, the College has installed opaque shades around the coffeehouse room to foster privacy...
...disease, which killed 60 people last year, is an infection of the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord...
...Within 20 years, over-85s - of whom roughly a quarter have dementia - are expected to comprise 2% of the population, twice the present figure. But the problem isn't simply that there'll be more oldies. A recent report by British researchers suggests that, compared to 30 years ago, brain diseases such as Alzheimer's strike a higher proportion of people in developed countries, a trend attributed to worsening pollution and greater exposure to harmful chemicals...
...University of Melbourne, who says drugs that could stop or reverse the disease may not be far off. Alzheimer's inexorably strips people of their memory, personality and eventually all cognitive function. Characterized by the spread of sticky plaques and clumps of tangled fiber that disrupt communication between brain cells, Alzheimer's typically kills within 5 to 10 years of onset. Partly because the majority of patients spend the last stages of the illness in government-subsidized aged-care homes, Alzheimer's is extremely costly: an Access Economics report, also to be released next week, estimates that...