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DRINK UP, BUT DON'T GET DRUNK A study in Epidemiology found that middle-age adults who binge drink--about five beers in a sitting--once a month triple their risk of dementia in their senior years...
...raising a child with this disorder. They refer interested patients to support groups. About half of babies born with Down have heart defects, though thanks to improved treatment, their average expected lifespan has doubled, from 25 in 1983 to 56 today. A higher risk of leukemia, infectious disease and dementia are also in the picture...
...word game may someday help doctors identify people in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. In a preliminary study published in Neuropsychologia, British researchers asked 96 Alzheimer's sufferers and 40 healthy adults to name as many animals or fruits as they could in one minute. Those with dementia came up with not only fewer words but simpler ones that they learned earlier in childhood, like cat or dog. Healthy adults mentioned slightly less typical terms like hippopotamus, gorilla and giraffe...
...literature professor teaching King Lear from a strong feminist perspective who accuses a male student of hers, an athlete, of plagiarism. It's a case of reverse discrimination, but it's larger than that. Her youngest daughter is leaving home for college. Her father has a form of dementia, and she's sort of Cordelia to her father's Lear. She's looking at political beliefs she formed 30 years ago that she thought would be the dominant beliefs in her life and in the country--and which no longer are. She is looking at the third part...
...researchers are in the process of establishing the individual purpose of each gene in order to determine which ones can be used for medicines. They are currently using one of the genes in the Sir2 family to protect mice from brain disorders analogous to Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and Huntington’s Disease, he said...