Word: treates
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...psychologist at the University of California at San Diego who has done extensive studies in the aging population, lack of sleep may even mimic the symptoms of dementia. In recent preliminary findings, she was able to improve cognitive function in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's simply by treating their underlying sleep disorder. "The need for sleep does not change a lot with age," says Ancoli-Israel, but often because of disruptive illnesses and the medications used to treat them, "the ability to sleep does...
...called modafinil that was approved two years ago to help shift workers stay alert. And there's a lot more in the pipeline. Neurologists have made rapid progress unraveling the molecular underpinnings of memory and attention, and drug companies are testing dozens of compounds derived from those discoveries to treat cognitive ailments like Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia...
Drugs already on the market, notably those that treat Alzheimer's disease, have been shown in small studies to improve the performance of healthy brains, though not by much. (Most of the research to date has been carried out on patients suffering from cognitive deficits.) "It's not like you start out with an IQ of 100 and get an IQ of 140 after taking these drugs," says Dr. Anjan Chatterjee, a neurologist at the University of Pennsylvania...
SCHOOLYARD DRUGS Adderall and Ritalin, two drugs widely used to treat attention-deficit disorders, can focus healthy minds as well. These potentially addictive stimulants are increasingly abused by students and professionals?so much so that the U.S. government now considers them "drugs of concern...
...team was the first to clone human embryos and extract lines of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) from them, harvesting a single line of ESCs from experiments involving 248 human eggs. ESCs can potentially grow into any type of body tissue, and lines created through cloning might one day help treat conditions like Alzheimer's or diabetes without the risk of immune rejection. In 2005, Hwang claimed to improve his process, using an average of 17 eggs to create an ESC line...