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...primary area where the ear is damaged is not the eardrum, not the part of the ear that you can see and not the bones that are inside the middle ear - it is actually deeper inside. It's where the nerve that brings the sound message up to the brain connects with the inner ear, and it involves some very specialized cells. These are hair cells, and specifically we're looking at the outer hair cells. When they're overexposed or stimulated at too high a level for too long a duration, they end up being metabolically exhausted. They...
...team discovered that people with diabetes in midlife had up to three times the risk of developing dementia 35 years later. Building on that work for their current study, which Beeri presented Monday at the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease in Chicago, researchers analyzed samples of brain tissue from 248 patients, stored in the Mt. Sinai Brain Bank. Detailed medical histories, including medications taken, were available for all patients. Beeri matched 124 patients with diabetes with 124 non-diabetic patients, who were similar to the first group in age, sex and stage of dementia at death...
Compared with patients who never developed diabetes, patients who had the disease but took insulin along with one additional medication to control blood sugar (typically metformin or glyburide) had 80% fewer brain-clogging amyloid plaques in their brain. Build up of these protein plaques, which are one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease, can interfere with normal communication between nerve cells and cause deficits in memory and cognition. "The group on combination therapy had a very, very low load of neuritic plaques," Beeri says. "Their brains looked almost like normal people." The medications did not, however, do much...
With his child's smile and nimble brain and breathtakingly simple instructions tumbling out one after another, Pausch made the infernally complex machine that is modern life look like anyone could put it together if they just had the right tools and the crib sheet. Come on, he seemed to say, you can do this; I have the secrets, and I'm giving them to you, for free...
...those of us who are not brain surgeons, driving is probably the most complex everyday thing we do," writes design journalist Vanderbilt in this look at the intricacies of the open road. Full of scads of cocktail-party factoids (half of all American road crashes occur at intersections; Saturday afternoons see more congestion than the typical rush hour), Traffic piles up fact after study after data point into an occasionally mind-numbing heap. Yet several of Vanderbilt's conclusions are eye-opening. Example: "We all think we are better drivers than we are." Propelled onto the road after a minimum...