News tagged with brain metabolism
Study dusts sugar coating off little-known regulation in cells
In Alzheimer's disease, brain neurons become clogged with tangled proteins. Scientists suspect these tangles arise partly due to malfunctions in a little-known regulatory system within cells. Now, researchers have dramatically ...
Apr 16, 2012 |
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'Knowing it in your gut' is real
A lot of chatter goes on inside each one of us and not all of it happens between our ears.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Self-administered light therapy may improve cognitive function after traumatic brain injury
At-home, daily application of light therapy via light-emitting diodes (LEDs) placed on the forehead and scalp led to improvements in cognitive function and post-traumatic stress disorder in patients with a traumatic brain ...
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Mar 17, 2011 |
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Researchers identify new biomarker for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human form of mad cow disease
Neena Singh, MD, PhD and colleagues at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified the first disease-specific biomarker for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD), a universally fatal, degenerative ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 09, 2011 |
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Researchers find blood-brain barrier damaged by disease
A study into the effects of Sanfilippo Syndrome type B (MPS III B) has found that the barrier responsible for protecting the brain from the entry of harmful blood-borne substances is structurally and functionally damaged ...
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Mar 08, 2011 |
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Cell phone use may have effect on brain activity, but health consequences unknown
In a preliminary study, researchers found that 50-minute cell phone use was associated with increased brain glucose metabolism (a marker of brain activity) in the region closest to the phone antenna, but the finding is of ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 22, 2011 |
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Huntington's disease breakthrough equals hope for patients
A huge leap forward in understanding Huntington's disease may give patients hope for a cure.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 22, 2011 |
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'Round-the-clock' lifestyle can disrupt metabolism, brain and behavior
(PhysOrg.com) -- In Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud argued that modern society was hard on human psychology, forcing people to get along in unnaturally close quarters. Now newly published resear ...
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Feb 21, 2011 |
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Researchers confirm value of therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest
Mayo Clinic researchers confirmed that patients who receive therapeutic hypothermia after resuscitation from cardiac arrest have favorable chances of surviving the event and recovering good functional status. In therapeutic ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 18, 2011 |
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Altered cell metabolism has role in brain tumor development
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Duke Cancer Institute have discovered that genetic mutations found in brain tumors can alter tumor metabolism. This work could help lead to new designs for anti-cancer drugs based on the unique ...
Jan 31, 2011 |
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Feast or famine: Researchers identify leptin receptor's sidekick as a target for appetite regulation
A study by researchers at Mayo Clinic's campus in Florida and Washington University School of Medicine adds a new twist to the body of evidence suggesting human obesity is due in part to genetic factors. While studying hormone receptors in laboratory m ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 11, 2011 |
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Research on obesity targets the brain's use of fatty acids
Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have created a new and exciting mouse model to study how lipid sensing and metabolism in the brain relate to the regulation of energy balance and body weight. The ...
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Jan 04, 2011 |
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Case study on Alzheimer's disease looks at progression before and after death
A case study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet sheds light on the pathological course of Alzheimer's disease. The brain of the first Alzheimer's patient to display amyloids demonstrable with a PET ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 14, 2010 |
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Metabolism models may explain why Alzheimer's disease kills some neuron types first
Bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego developed an explanation for why some types of neurons die sooner than others in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease. These insights, published ...
Dec 06, 2010 |
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Diabetes may clamp down on cholesterol the brain needs
The brain contains more cholesterol than any other organ in the body, has to produce its own cholesterol and won't function normally if it doesn't churn out enough. Defects in cholesterol metabolism have been linked with ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 30, 2010 |
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