The Global Syndicator - alzheimer's disease

Researchers correct decline in organ function associated with old age

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:55:09 +0000

As people age, their cells become less efficient at getting rid of damaged protein — resulting in a buildup of toxic material that is especially pronounced in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease, and other neurodegenerative disorders.

Major Step Forward In Understanding How Memory Works

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:43:15 +0000

Our ability to remember the objects, places and people within our environment is essential for everyday life, although the importance of this is only fully appreciated when recognition memory beings to fail, as in Alzheimer’s disease.

Why fish oil is good for you

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:08:53 +0000

It’s good news that we are living longer, but bad news that the longer we live, the better our odds of developing late-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Many Alzheimer’s researchers have long touted fish oil, by pill or diet, as an accessible and inexpensive “weapon” that may delay or prevent this debilitating disease.

Novel mechanism for long-term learning identified

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:21:06 +0000

Practice makes perfect — or at least that’s what we’re told as we struggle through endless rounds of multiplication tables, goal kicks and piano scales — and it seems, based on the personal experience of many, to be true.

Cognitive ‘fog’ of normal aging linked to brain system disruption

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:28:25 +0000

Comparisons of the brains of young and old people have revealed that normal aging may cause cognitive decline due to deterioration of the connections among large-scale brain systems. The researchers linked the deterioration to a decrease in the integrity of the brain’s “white matter,” the tissue containing nerve cells that carry information.

Enzymes Key To Brainpower Identified

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:54:22 +0000

Bolstering disintegrating neural connections may help boost brainpower in Alzheimer’s disease patients, MIT researchers and colleagues will report in the Nov. 8 issue of Neuron. The researchers zeroed in on the enzymes that manipulate a key scaffolding protein for synapses, the connections through which brain cells communicate.

Scientists link gene that promotes long lifespan to cholesterol

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:33:30 +0000

MIT researchers have discovered a link between a gene believed to promote long lifespan and a pathway that flushes cholesterol from the body. The finding could help researchers create drugs that lower

Cholesterol metabolism links early- and late-onset Alzheimer’s disease

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:22:00 +0000

Although the causes of Alzheimer’s disease are not completely understood, amyloid-beta (A-beta) is widely considered a likely culprit — the “sticky” protein clumps into plaques thought to harm brain cells.

Vaccine thwarts the tangles of Alzheimer’s

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:02:35 +0000

A new study by NYU Medical Center researchers shows for the first time that the immune system can combat the pathological form of tau protein, a key protein implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. The researchers, led by Einar Sigurdsson Ph.D.

Toward an alternative to stem cells for treating chronic brain diseases

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:25:12 +0000

With ethical issues concerning use of discarded embryos and technical problems hindering development of stem cell therapies, scientists in Korea are reporting the first successful use of a drug-like molecule to transform human muscle cells into nerve cells.