Word: dementias
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...Johnson '99 as the boomin Col. Cathcart; Ollie M. Lewis '00 as the dying Clevinger; Andrew K. Mandel '00 as the expressive Chaplain; and Joe A Nuccio '00 as the mercurial Milo. Nearly all of the characters these seven actors play, however, are entertaining and endearing in their dementia--there is simply not room to mention them all here. At moments, their performances are so colorful that mere descriptions are unable to do them justice...
...mention of the ancient remedy had ever appeared in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association--until last week. The first double-blind study in the U.S. on the effects of ginkgo, researchers say, proved that an extract of ginkgo has a small but measurable effect on dementia. "Ginkgo is no miracle," says Dr. Pierre LeBars, a neurologist at the New York Institute for Medical Research in Tarrytown, N.Y., and the study's principal investigator. "But we have some patients who have stabilized for four years...
...studies show that among other things, EGb 761 helps keep platelets in the blood from clumping together. That's why ginkgo extract is prescribed in low doses (40 mg a day) in Europe for patients with circulatory problems. Much higher doses (240 mg a day) are used to treat dementia...
...suggesting that ginkgo will cure dementia or prevent Alzheimer's. At best, the benefit is limited to a third of patients. But the effect was most pronounced on the subjects who were the least impaired, suggesting that if Alzheimer's is treated early enough, dementia might be postponed...
Enter Brandt, 43, intelligent but unintimidating. Long fascinated by the physiological aspects of memory disorder, Brandt started delving into amnesia, Alzheimer's and dementia while a graduate student at Boston University. Upon joining the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1981, he began focusing on HD, a disease that he says provides "an almost unique opportunity to study how a deterioration of systems in the brain could result in cognitive, emotional and movement problems...