Fear of the unknown is one of the greatest issues facing patients with glaucoma – the second leading cause of blindness worldwide after cataracts – according to research in the April issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. People also worry about how the eye disease, which can be hereditary, will affect other members of […]
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Drinking 100 Percent Fruit Juice May Offer Disease-Fighting Benefits
Drinking 100 percent fruit juices could have protective health benefits similar to those of whole fruits, according to research presented in a literature review yesterday at the 2011 Experimental Biology (EB) meeting. Research examined in the review, which was completed at the University of California – Davis, a range of study types from in vitro […]
Troubled Sleep Contributes To Cognitive Problems In Childhood Cancer Survivors
A new analysis has found that childhood cancer survivors often suffer from sleep problems and fatigue, which negatively impact their attention and memory. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study indicates that addressing sleep hygiene among survivors of childhood cancer may help to improve their cognitive health.
Actress Lea Thompson Hosts New, Free Video To Help People With Alzheimer’s Disease
Film and television actress Lea Thompson is the host of the American Academy of Neurology Foundation’s latest patient education video and guidebook, Alzheimer’s Disease: A Guide for Patients and Families. The video and guidebook are aimed at answering important questions for newly diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease patients and their caregivers and can be viewed and downloaded […]
Gene Linked To Severity Of Social Dysfunction In Autism
With the help of two sets of brothers with autism, Johns Hopkins scientists have identified a gene associated with autism that appears to be linked very specifically to the severity of social interaction deficits. The gene, GRIP1 (glutamate receptor interacting protein 1), is a blueprint for a traffic-directing protein at synapses — those specialized contact points […]
Hyperactive Autonomic Nervous System In Patients With Breast Cancer May Cause Fatigue And Aging
The persistent fatigue that plagues one out of every three breast cancer survivors may be caused by one part of the autonomic nervous system running in overdrive, while the other part fails to slow it down. That imbalance of a natural system in the body appears linked to the tiredness and exhaustion that can burden […]
Dopamine Controls Formation Of New Brain Cells With Potential Implications For Parkinson’s Disease
A study of the salamander brain has led researchers at Karolinska Institutet to discover a hitherto unknown function of the neurotransmitter dopamine. In an article published in the scientific journal Cell Stem Cell they show how in acting as a kind of switch for stem cells, dopamine controls the formation of new neurons in the […]
Antidepressant Medications May Aid Physical Recovery In Stroke
A University of Iowa study finds that patients treated with a short course of antidepressants after a stroke have significantly greater improvement in physical recovery than patients treated with a placebo. Moreover, the study is the first to demonstrate that this physical recovery continues to improve for at least nine months after the antidepressant medication […]
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