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...sells his own line of "brain longevity" supplements. He recommends a regimen of antioxidants like vitamins E and C and co-enzyme Q10 to keep the brain healthy. Beyond that, one of his favorite nootropic formulations is a combination of ginkgo, phosphatidylserine (a molecule essential to the health of neural-cell membranes) and omega-3 fats (found in fish oils). But Khalsa emphasizes that nine-tenths of the mental boost people seek can be had by eating well, staying mentally and physically active and keeping stress...
...professor at the Harvard Medical School (HMS) has been awarded a $500,000 five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct cell biology research that may have significant repercussions on future treatments of neural diseases like Parkinson’s and Huntington?...
Michael S. Boyce ’05, who just finished his Ph.D. under Yuan, said her research team hopes to find chemicals that will inhibit the proliferation of neural degeneration...
...perhaps best known for research showing that the abnormal repetition of a protein called polyglutamine in cells led to an overactivation of the enzyme caspase-8—which is critically involved in apoptosis. These results suggested that the mutant protein helped accelerate cell death and degeneration in neural diseases...
Because subjects with a history of interracial dating saw almost no persistent fear reaction to the faces of other races, the study’s authors—Ebert, Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Mahzarin R. Banaji, New York University (NYU) Professor of Psychology and Neural Science Elizabeth A. Phelps, and NYU graduate student Andreas Olsson—concluded that fear learning is influenced by one’s social group, and thus may be socially conditioned...