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...frontotemporal dementia, a degenerative disease caused by the rapid deterioration of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, which Mackey injured on a goal post in his football days...
...years on TV--the length, you'll note, of a two-term presidency--the head of the Soprano crime family is thinking about his legacy. (Fair warning: here's where the spoilers begin.) In the first new episode, Tony, still feeling the effects of having been gut-shot by dementia-addled Uncle Junior, is celebrating his 47th birthday. Later there's a reference to one of his Mob peers, who died at 47. No one connects the dots explicitly, but the parallel is not lost on Tony. "My estimate, historically, 80% of the time, [a Mob boss] ends...
Williams and other brain researchers are already finding that the atlas can be a time saver, speeding them to their ultimate goal: developing new treatments for such human neurological disorders as dementia, schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. In a matter of days, for example, Williams used it to home in on the most promising gene candidate among 20 he had isolated that were involved in aggression and the fear response. Analyzing each gene individually, even with high-throughput methods, would have taken months. He will next look at this gene in human populations to determine whether variants in the gene...
Fresh from a country with two official languages: a new Canadian study suggests that being bilingual will, on average, postpone the onset of dementia by 4.1 years. Even after adjusting for schooling and immigration status, the results were unequivocal: being a polyglot (or at least a biglot) fights brain rot. What's not clear is why. Researchers speculate the ability to operate in two languages could - like exercise or stimulating leisure and social activity - help the brain continue normal functions even as it decays physically. Just don't expect great things from your French refresher course. The study, appearing...
...body mass in humans as an impending disaster. The bleak diagnosis is that as a species we're carrying too much lard, exposing every system of the body to heightened risk of disease. Amid constant warnings about soaring rates of diabetes and links between fat and heart attack, stroke, dementia, cancer, arthritis and a myriad of other conditions, a view is taking hold that obesity will reverse the millennium-long trend of rising human life expectancy-that today's children will die younger than their parents. In Australia and New Zealand, various groups are pushing for numerous anti-fat measures...