Posts Tagged ‘Brain’
US researchers found insufficient levels of vitamin D in 55 percent Parkinson’s patients, while these levels were 36 percent in healthy elderly people. Now the scientists are trying to know that the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease can be eased with vitamin D supplements.
The researchers from Emory University do not find yet whether vitamin D deficiency is a cause of developing Parkinson’s or not.
The study has been published in the journal Archives of Neurology.
Due to Parkinson’s nerve cells gets affected in many parts of the mind and especially in those parts that use dopamine (chemical messenger) to control movement. Read the rest of this entry
CHICAGO – Brisk walking provide trivial improvement on mental tests for older people with memory difficulties, considered as the first meticulous test of exercise on the aging brain. Study published on Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association.
The results were only modest of this small Australian study. But they support observational studies establishing potential mental benefits from physical activity.
The effects of exercise were not better but good enough than those, seen with drugs approved to aid brain function in Alzheimer’s disease, according to experts.
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – Calls for Medicare government health plans to include coverage for PET scans to additional cancer types have been made. The medical imaging industry has asked an advisory panel to recommend wider payments.
Data has shown that positron emission tomography (PET) scans went a long way in giving doctors accurate information and allowed them to alter their treatment plans for nearly one-third of their enrolled patients. The way PET scans work is that radioactive sugars are injected into the body which then travel to the metabolically active parts of the body and can indicate cancer risk. What the CT or MRI scans miss, the PET scans could pick up due to the unique method of locating possible cancer cells. Read the rest of this entry
With the help of scanning technology, Swedish researchers found a difference in the nerve-wiring of gay men and women’s brain if compared to the heterosexual people’s brains of the same sex. However, a similarity was also noted between homosexual people’s brain and their opposite sex heterosexual people’s brain. Thus, the brain of a gay man was more likely to the brain of heterosexual woman than a heterosexual man and similarly, a lesbian’s brain was more alike to heterosexual man’s brain than a heterosexual woman.
The study has been published online in the Journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and it was the work of Drs Ivanka Savic and Per Lindström from the Stockholm Brain Institute at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands: The oldest person in the world, Henrikje Van Andel-Schipper, A Dutch woman had a perfect brain died of at the age of 115 during the period of 2005. Happiness, joking and pickle herring were the secrets of her long life.
The scientists are of the view that Henrikje Van Andel-Schipper’s psychic ability was most likely as fine as it appeared. Alzheimer was observed through the Henrikje post-postmortem. She had Alzheimer at the later stages of her life that declined her mental ability.
There are many of the symptoms of Henrikje disorder through Alzheimer such as memory damage, recalling, hallucination, quietness, loneliness, lack of sleeping, dizziness, anxiety and madness, etc.
