Browse News Stories
81 to 90 of 3,003 stories
view headlines only
-
Dynamic New Software Improves Care of Aging Brain
March 14, 2013 Innovative medical records software will provide more personalized health care for older adult patients, a population at significant risk for mental health decline and ... > full story -
Rapid Hearing Loss May Be a Symptom of Rare Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
March 14, 2013 Rapid hearing loss in both ears may be a symptom of the rare but always-fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and should be considered a reason for clinicians to test for the ... > full story -
How Chronic Stress Accelerates Alzheimer’s Disease
March 14, 2013 Why does chronic stress lead to increased risk for dementia? The answer may lie in the elevation of stress steroids that is seen in the brain during stress, a researcher ... > full story -
Normal Prion Protein Regulates Iron Metabolism
March 13, 2013 An iron imbalance caused by prion proteins collecting in the brain is a likely cause of cell death in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, researchers have found. The breakthrough follows discoveries that ... > full story -
Drug Shows Potential to Delay Onset or Progression of Alzheimer's Disease
March 11, 2013 An anti-atherosclerosis drug greatly reduced blood-brain barrier (BBB) leaks in animal models with diabetes and hypercholesterolemia and linked BBB permeability with amyloid peptide deposits at the ... > full story -
Sleep Loss Precedes Alzheimer's Symptoms
March 11, 2013 Sleep is disrupted in people who likely have early Alzheimer’s disease but do not yet have the memory loss or other problems characteristic of full-blown disease, researchers ... > full story -
New Add-on Drug May Improve Memory in People With Moderate Alzheimer's Disease
March 11, 2013 A new drug may improve memory problems in people with moderate Alzheimer’s disease, according to a phase IIa study. The drug is called ... > full story -
Sleep Discovery Could Lead to Therapies That Improve Memory
March 11, 2013 A team of sleep researchers has confirmed the mechanism that enables the brain to consolidate memory and found that a commonly prescribed sleep aid enhances the ... > full story -
Scientists Identify Buphenyl as a Possible Drug for Alzheimer's Disease
March 8, 2013 Studies in mice with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have shown that sodium phenylbutyrate, known as Buphenyl, successfully increases factors for neuronal growth and protects learning and memory, ... > full story -
Drugs Targeting Blood Vessels May Be Candidates for Treating Alzheimer's
March 7, 2013 Researchers have successfully normalized the production of blood vessels in the brain of mice with Alzheimer's disease by immunizing them with amyloid beta, a protein widely associated with the ... > full story
Search ScienceDaily
Number of stories in archives: 137,160

