Word: dementia
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...their previous studies, Mt. Sinai psychiatrist Michal Beeri and her 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...
...Great White North. The first five seasons of The X Files were shot in British Columbia, which was a good fit for a show that wanted to leave its fans with a chill. In its pensiveness and good manners, its immersion in desolate wastes, its search for eccentricity, even dementia, behind the blandest Anglo face, the show was devoutly Canadian. For the movie, which is set mostly in West Virginia, Carter took the crew back to Vancouver for one of its snowiest episodes ever...
...kids with FXS often reported that their father was experiencing neurological symptoms. "I thought, This can't be a coincidence," she recalls. At an FXS conference in 2000, Hagerman asked some 100 fragile X family members if an older male relative was having problems with balance, tremors or dementia. About a third of the audience members shot their hands into the air. Within a few years, a newly recognized genetic disorder called FXTAS (fragile X--associated tremor, ataxia syndrome) was part of the literature, though the illness is still often mistaken for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or Lou Gehrig...
McCain's Health Report What no one seems willing to mention when discussing John McCain's health [May 26] is that 11% of American males 71 or older have dementia of one kind or another, according to a comprehensive study published late last year. This is not a partisan statistic. If Hillary Clinton or Obama had a decent chance of having a heart attack or stroke in office, would this be something the electorate had a legitimate interest in? Signs and symptoms of dementia include memory loss and difficulty with language and learning new things. As a health professional with...
...Someren also notes that the gain in cognitive test scores is the same benefit that Alzheimer's patients can expect from taking cholinesterase inhibitors, which stall the advent of dementia by strengthening communication between brain nerve cells. "Because it gives the same effect, on average, it may make sense for people to consider living in a better-lit environment," he says. While experts don't feel the results are enough to constitute a treatment for symptoms, when it comes to staving off the mental decline of dementia, a new rule of thumb might be "Let there be light...