News tagged with frontal lobe dementia
Blood test predicts chance of dementia
VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Belgium) researchers connected to the Born-Bunge Institute and the University of Antwerp discovered the amount of growth factor progranulin in blood is a predictor of Frontotemporal ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Scientists describe new model for neurodegeneration
A team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has developed a new model for how inherited genes contribute to a common but untreatable and incurable neurodegenerative disease. ...
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Mar 10, 2011 |
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Malaria medication may help against one type of frontotemporal dementia
Frontotemporal dementia is caused by a breakdown of nerve cells in the frontal and temporal region of the brain (fronto-temporal lobe), which leads to, among other symptoms, a change in personality and behavior. The cause ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 02, 2011 |
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New insight into dementia pathophysiology
New research unravels a key molecular pathway underlying a neurodegenerative disorder that causes a devastating type of dementia. The study, published by Cell Press in the November 18 issue of the journal Neuron, sheds light ...
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Nov 17, 2010 |
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Researchers open window on a little-studied form of dementia
(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale University researchers have discovered one of the first tantalizing clues to how frontotemporal dementia (FTD) - often mistaken for Alzheimer's disease - wreaks havoc in the brain.
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Nov 17, 2010 |
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New insight into the cause of common dementia found
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida have found a clue as to how some people develop a form of dementia that affects the brain areas associated with personality, behavior, and language.
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Nov 17, 2010 |
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Daily dose of beet juice promotes brain health in older adults
Researchers for the first time have shown that drinking beet juice can increase blood flow to the brain in older adults – a finding that could hold great potential for combating the progression of dementia.
Nov 02, 2010 |
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The unhealthy ego: What can neuroscience tell us about our 'self'?
With Election Day right around the corner, political egos are on full display. One might even think that possessing a "big ego" is a prerequisite for success in politics, or in any position of leadership. High achievers–CEO's, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 28, 2010 |
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Obesity gene, carried by more than a third of the US population, leads to brain tissue loss
Three years ago, geneticists reported the startling discovery that nearly half of all people in the U.S. with European ancestry carry a variant of the fat mass and obesity associated (FTO) gene, which causes them to gain ...
Apr 19, 2010 |
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Human working memory is based on dynamic interaction networks in the brain
A research project of the Neuroscience Center of the University of Helsinki sheds light on the neuronal mechanisms sustaining memory traces of visual stimuli in the human brain. The results show that the maintenance of working ...
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Apr 13, 2010 |
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Protein linked to problems with executive thinking skills
New research shows that a high level of C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker for inflammation in the blood, is associated with brain changes that are linked to problems with executive thinking skills. The study is published ...
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Mar 29, 2010 |
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