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Surgery Not Linked To Memory Problems In Older PatientsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
For years, it has been widely assumed that older adults may experience memory loss and other cognitive problems following surgery. But a new study from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis questions those assumptions. In fact, the researchers were not able to detect any long-term cognitive declines attributable to surgery in a group of 575 patients they studied. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 20, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alzheimer's / Dementia Source Type: news

Surgery Not Linked To Memory Problems In Older PatientsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
For years, it has been widely assumed that older adults may experience memory loss and other cognitive problems following surgery. But a new study from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis questions those assumptions. In fact, the researchers were not able to detect any long-term cognitive declines attributable to surgery in a group of 575 patients they studied. (Source: Alzheimer's / Dementia News From Medical News Today)
Source: Alzheimer's / Dementia News From Medical News Today - November 20, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Tags: Alzheimer's / Dementia Source Type: news

Surgery not linked to memory problems in older patientsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Washington University School of Medicine) For years, it has been widely assumed that older adults may experience memory loss and other cognitive problems following surgery. But a new study by School of Medicine researchers questions that assumption. In the 575 patients they studied, the investigators did not detect any long-term cognitive declines attributable to surgery. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - November 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Research On College Students' Drinking Beliefs And BehaviorEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Unrealistic optimism about drinking behavior can lead to later alcohol-related problems, according to research published in the current issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (PSPB), the official monthly journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Researchers interviewed 800 college students several times over the course of two years about whether their drinking resulted in hangovers, memory loss or trouble with police. (Source: Psychology / Psychiatry News From Medical News Today)
Source: Psychology / Psychiatry News From Medical News Today - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Source Type: news

Dance drug ketamine can lead to memory lossEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
HEAVY use of the dance drug ketamine causes memory loss and can make users "delusional", researchers said yesterday. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
Source: Scotsman.com News - Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Inhibition of Human {alpha}4{beta}2 Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors by Volatile Aromatic Anesthetics Depends on Drug Hydrophobicity.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Volatile aromatic anesthetics potently and reversibly inhibit human alpha(4)beta(2) neuronal nACh receptors. This inhibition may play a role in producing amnesia. In contrast to N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors, the inhibitory potencies of aromatic anesthetics for alpha(4)beta(2) neuronal nACh receptors seem to be dependent on drug hydrophobicity rather than electrostatic properties. This implies that the volatile aromatic anesthetic binding site in the alpha(4)beta(2) neuronal nACh receptor is hydrophobic in character and differs from the nature of the binding site in N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors. PMID: 1...
Source: Anesthesia and Analgesia - November 16, 2009 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Solt K, Kelly EW, Cotten JF, Raines DE Tags: Anesth Analg Source Type: journals

Making Memories Means New Neurons Must Erase Older OnesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Short-term memory may depend in a surprising way on the ability of newly formed neurons to erase older connections. That's the conclusion of a report in the November 13th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, that provides some of the first evidence in mice and rats that new neurons sprouted in the hippocampus cause the decay of short-term fear memories in that brain region, without an overall memory loss. (Source: Neurology / Neuroscience News From Medical News Today)
Source: Neurology / Neuroscience News From Medical News Today - November 14, 2009 Category: Neuroscience Tags: Neurology / Neuroscience Source Type: news

To Make Memories, New Neurons Must Erase Older OnesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Short-term memory may depend in a surprising way on the ability of newly formed neurons to erase older connections. A new article provides some of the first evidence in mice and rats that new neurons sprouted in the hippocampus cause the decay of short-term fear memories in that brain region, without an overall memory loss. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - November 13, 2009 Category: Science Source Type: news

Barrow Scientists Partner With Hispanic 'El Grupo' In Alzheimer's ResearchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Researchers from the Barrow Neurological Institute and aging Hispanic alumni from Phoenix Union High School are partnering in a major research trial to study Alzheimer's disease in the ethnic community. More than 20 graduates from the high school, who belong to a social club called "El Grupo," have joined neuroscientists at Barrow to study memory loss and Alzheimer's disease among the Hispanic community. (Source: Alzheimer's / Dementia News From Medical News Today)
Source: Alzheimer's / Dementia News From Medical News Today - November 13, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Tags: Alzheimer's / Dementia Source Type: news

People entering their 60s may have more disabilities today than in prior generationsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In a development that could have significant ramifications for the nation's health care system, Baby Boomers may well be entering their 60s suffering far more disabilities than their counterparts did in previous generations, according to a new UCLA study. The findings, researchers say, may be due in part to changing American demographics. In the study, which will be published in the January 2010 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, researchers from the division of geriatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA found that the cohort of individuals b...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - November 12, 2009 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: organizations

To make memories, new neurons must erase older onesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Cell Press) Short-term memory may depend in a surprising way on the ability of newly formed neurons to erase older connections. That's the conclusion of a report in the November 13 issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, that provides some of the first evidence in mice and rats that new neurons sprouted in the hippocampus cause the decay of short-term fear memories in that brain region, without an overall memory loss. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - November 12, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Depo Medrone (Methylprednisolone) - Revised SPCEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Pfizer Area: Other Library Updates > SPC Changes Amendment to section 4.8 (undesirable effects) of SPC. A wide range of psychiatric reactions including affective disorders, psychotic reactions, behavioural disturbances, irritability, anxiety, sleep disturbances, and cognitive dysfunction including confusion and amnesia have been reported for all corticosteroids. Reactions are common and may occur in both adults and children. Psychological effects have been reported on withdrawal of corticosteroids; the frequency is unknown. Increased intra-cranial pressure with papilloedema in children has been re...
Source: NeLM - SPC Changes - November 11, 2009 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: organizations

Fixation-off sensitivity with atypical presentation: Clinical and video/EEG documentation.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A 9-year 2-month-old Saudi boy of normal intelligence was brought to a pediatric neurology clinic because of episodes of abnormal behavior associated with disorientation and confusion and postictal amnesia. Video/EEG evaluation unexpectedly documented the presence of fixation-off sensitivity. PMID: 19913461 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour)
Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - November 11, 2009 Category: Neurology Authors: Saadeldin IY Tags: Epilepsy Behav Source Type: journals

Side-effects alert for all statin users as drug is linked to depression and memory lossEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
New health warnings are to be issued over popular cholesterol-lowering drugs after evidence that thousands of users suffer side effects such as depression. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 9, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Hybrid Molecules Show Promise For Exploring, Treating Alzheimer'sEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
One of the many mysteries of Alzheimer's disease is how protein-like snippets called amyloid-beta peptides, which clump together to form plaques in the brain, may cause cell death, leading to the disease's devastating symptoms of memory loss and other mental difficulties. In order to answer that key question and develop new approaches to preventing the damage, scientists must first understand how amyloid-beta forms the telltale clumps. Researchers have now developed new molecular tools that can be used to investigate the process. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - November 6, 2009 Category: Science Source Type: news

Study: Radiosurgery+whole-brain RT can lead to memory lossEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Whole-brain radiation therapy and stereotactic radiosurgery, when used together in the treatment of brain tumors, present a greater risk of significant decline in learning and memory function by four months, according to a randomized trial published in the November edition of Lancet Oncology. (Source: Health Imaging News)
Source: Health Imaging News - November 5, 2009 Category: Radiology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news

How specialist ECT consultants inform patients about memory loss [Original papers]Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
AIMS AND METHOD A questionnaire was distributed to consultants with a special interest in electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) at clinics participating in an ECT accreditation process. This aimed to ascertain a consensus of clinical practice regarding informing patients about the treatment and assessment of memory during ECT. RESULTS The response rate was 64%. There is consensus on informing patients about the possibility of permanent memory loss. Memory is assessed before and during an ECT course by clinical interview and Mini-Mental State Examination, but rarely at long-term follow-up. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS P...
Source: Psychiatric Bulletin - November 5, 2009 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Hanna, D., Kershaw, K., Chaplin, R. Tags: Original papers Source Type: journals

Camera offers hope for memory-loss patientsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A small, wearable camera that captures images automatically could change the way memory loss patients, in particular those with Alzheimer's, are treated, experts say. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - November 5, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Promise For Exploring, Treating Alzheimer's Shown By Hybrid MoleculesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
One of the many mysteries of Alzheimer's disease is how protein-like snippets called amyloid-beta peptides, which clump together to form plaques in the brain, may cause cell death, leading to the disease's devastating symptoms of memory loss and other mental difficulties. In order to answer that key question and develop new approaches to preventing the damage, scientists must first understand how amyloid-beta forms the telltale clumps. (Source: Neurology / Neuroscience News From Medical News Today)
Source: Neurology / Neuroscience News From Medical News Today - November 5, 2009 Category: Neuroscience Tags: Alzheimer's / Dementia Source Type: news

Promise For Exploring, Treating Alzheimer's Shown By Hybrid MoleculesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
One of the many mysteries of Alzheimer's disease is how protein-like snippets called amyloid-beta peptides, which clump together to form plaques in the brain, may cause cell death, leading to the disease's devastating symptoms of memory loss and other mental difficulties. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 5, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alzheimer's / Dementia Source Type: news

Thinking Matters: RememberingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This is my 3rd blog entry. In each of the previous two, I've spelled out the relation of the appearance of psychological symptoms to a person's repression of anger. In this blog entry I will focus more on repression, but in this case it's about the issue simply of remembering. So, please remember that repression is always about how memory or remembering is conquered and rendered as erased. When you've got repression, you've got amnesia for the remembering. WARNING: The anecdote described here is real, and for children it may be a bit X rated, although I believe, essentially harmless. Introduction: The Innocence Project has...
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - November 4, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Henry Kellerman, Ph.D. Tags: Personality anecdote blog entry case example dead of winter dormitory eye witness reports female patients henry kellerman hospital patients hospital security innocence project patrol cars psychological symptoms psychologist r Source Type: consumer

Neuro-Behcet's disease presenting with amnesia and frontal dysfunctionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We report a 48-year-old patient with neuro-Behcet's disease who presented with the combination of severe memory impairment and frontal/executive dysfunction. The clinical feature mimicked that of diencephalic amnesic syndrome. The MRI and SPECT findings supported the notion that the thalamus and related subcortical–frontal connection was responsible for this patient's problem. (Source: Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery)
Source: Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery - November 4, 2009 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Masaru Mimura, Motoichiro Kato, Haruo Kashima Tags: Case reports Source Type: journals

Sex, then amnesia...and it's no soap operaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It was either mind-blowing or completely forgettable. Either way, Alice doesn't remember. That's because first she and her husband had sex, then she developed amnesia. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - November 4, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Hybrid molecules show promise for exploring, treating Alzheimer'sEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(University of Michigan) One of the many mysteries of Alzheimer's disease is how protein-like snippets called amyloid-beta peptides, which clump together to form plaques in the brain, may cause cell death, leading to the disease's devastating symptoms of memory loss and other mental difficulties. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 4, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

MHRA publishes public assessment report of adverse effects associated with statinsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: MHRA Area: News The MHRA has published a Public Assessment Report summarising adverse drug reaction reports and published literature on statins, which concluded that sleep disturbances, memory loss, sexual dysfunction, depression and interstitial lung disease (leading to breathing problems) may be associated with statin use. The product information for all statins will be updated with warnings on all of these side effects. (Source: NeLM - Cardiovascular Medicine)
Source: NeLM - Cardiovascular Medicine - November 4, 2009 Category: Cardiology Source Type: organizations

Amnesia-Like Behavior Returns On Mars Rover SpiritEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Until Oct. 24, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover had gone more than six months without an episode of amnesia-like symptoms like those that appeared on four occasions earlier this year. In these amnesia events, Spirit fails to record data from the day's activities onto the type of computer memory -- non-volatile "flash" memory -- that can retain the data when the rover powers down for its energy-conserving periods of "sleep." (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - November 2, 2009 Category: Science Source Type: news

Diabetes Slows Alzheimer's Memory Loss?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
While research shows diabetes increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease, having both conditions might actually slow the memory loss process. (Source: Medical Headlines From Ivanhoe.com)
Source: Medical Headlines From Ivanhoe.com - November 2, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Can We Adapt to Big Cities and to Little Nature?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Some people say that we don't have to worry that we're destroying the natural world, and that we increasingly live in increasingly large, congested, and polluted cities. At the core of their argument usually lies three claims, which sound something like this: (i) "Well adapt." (ii) "Adaption is how we evolved." And (iii) "adaptation is good for us."It's a pernicious argument.Granted, the first claim is true. We will adapt. It is that or we will go extinct, and I doubt that will happen. The second claim is also true. Adaptation is part of our evolutionary heritage. But the third claim is not always true. It is possible to a...
Source: Psychology Today Work Center - October 30, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Ph.D. Tags: Evolutionary Psychology Happiness Health Morality Social Life Stress Work adaptation adaptations adaption biological systems Choices cities darkened area evolutionary heritage harmful ultraviolet radiation hemoglobin huma Source Type: consumer

The neural basis of effective memory therapy in a patient with limbic encephalitisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: SenseCam images may provide powerful cues that trigger the recall and consolidation of stored but inaccessible memories. (Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry - October 28, 2009 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Berry, E, Hampshire, A, Rowe, J, Hodges, S, Kapur, N, Watson, P, Browne, G, Smyth, G, Wood, K, Owen, A M Tags: Memory disorders (neurology), Infection (neurology), Memory disorders (psychiatry) Research papers Source Type: journals

Does Diabetes Speed Up Memory Loss In Alzheimer's Disease?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research has shown that diabetes increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease and the risk of memory loss in people who don't have Alzheimer's disease. But it hasn't been clear whether people with Alzheimer's disease and diabetes have more rapid memory loss than those who have Alzheimer's disease but no diabetes. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - October 28, 2009 Category: Science Source Type: news

Finding That Memory Loss Is Slower In Alzheimer's Patients With Diabetes Surprises ResearchersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Researchers from France and the UK who set out to investigate whether people with Alzheimer's disease and diabetes have more rapid memory loss were surprised to find not only that they did not, but that their memory loss was actually slower than that of Alzheimer's patients without diabetes. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 28, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alzheimer's / Dementia Source Type: news

Urine formaldehyde level is inversely correlated to mini mental state examination scores in senile dementia.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It is widely known that exogenous formaldehyde exposure induces human cognitive impairment and animal memory loss; and recent studies show that formaldehyde at pathological levels induces Abeta deposition and misfolding of tau protein to form globular amyloid-like aggregates. Endogenous formaldehyde may be a marker for progressive senile dementia. The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation of endogenous formaldehyde in urine of senile dementia and mini mental state examination (MMSE) scores. Formaldehyde level was analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography (with fluorescence detection) in human ur...
Source: Neurobiology of Aging - October 28, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Tong Z, Zhang J, Luo W, Wang W, Li F, Li H, Luo H, Lu J, Zhou J, Wan Y, He R Tags: Neurobiol Aging Source Type: journals

Does Diabetes Speed Up Memory Loss In Alzheimer's Disease?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research has shown that diabetes increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease and the risk of memory loss in people who don't have Alzheimer's disease. But it hasn't been clear whether people with Alzheimer's disease and diabetes have more rapid memory loss than those who have Alzheimer's disease but no diabetes. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 27, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alzheimer's / Dementia Source Type: news

Teaching NeuroImages: Amnesia due to fornix infarctionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Neurology - October 26, 2009 Category: Neurology Authors: Adamovich, B. L., Gualberto, G., Roberts, T., Haut, M. W., Gutmann, L. Tags: Stroke in young adults, MRI, All Cerebrovascular disease/Stroke, Memory, Infarction RESIDENT AND FELLOW SECTION Source Type: journals

Memory loss mum keeps diary to recall baby's early daysEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A mother with short term memory loss following meningitis has started writing a diary of her baby's first month so she can recall his early days. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - October 25, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: meningitis baby Source Type: news

A comparative analysis of structural brain MRI in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Dementia is a debilitating and life-altering disease which leads to both memory impairment and decline of normal executive functioning. While causes of dementia are numerous and varied, the leading cause among patients 60 years and older is Alzheimer's disease. The gold standard for Alzheimer's diagnosis remains histological identification of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles within the medial temporal lobe, more specifically the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus. Although no definitive cure for Alzheimer's disease currently exists, there are treatments targeted at preserving cognition and memory while delayi...
Source: Behavioural Neurology - October 24, 2009 Category: Neurology Authors: Appel J, Potter E, Shen Q, Pantol G, Greig MT, Loewenstein D, Duara R Tags: Behav Neurol Source Type: journals

The Tepid Pool? -- Choices We Make in Connecting with NatureEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In a New Jersey town, a controversy about a pool has pitted neighbor against neighbor. Here's the issue, as reported in the New York Times (9/7/2009). There's a natural swimming hole, called Graydon Pool. It's 2.6 acres. For over 90 years, children in that town have grown up swimming in this pool. It has a sandy bottom. Cool spring currents flow into it. But many residents would like to plow under this natural pool and replace it with a blue, concrete pool with "thoroughly disinfected" chlorinated water. They call this a "real pool" - a "bona fide pool."My colleague, Dr. Pat Hasbach (a clinical psychologist in Eugene, Oreg...
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - October 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Ph.D. Tags: Child Development Evolutionary Psychology Happiness Health Parenting Relationships Stress bodies of water children and nature clinical psychologist concrete pool cool spring domestic nature environmental education environmental Source Type: consumer

Memory loss due to lack of sleep may be reversibleEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
INSOMNIACS worried that the condition may affect their memory have good news to wake up to. Scientists claim that the loss of memory from a lack of sleep may be reversible (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
Source: Scotsman.com News - Health - October 23, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Exercise Helps Brain After RadiationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Exercise may protect against both memory-loss and depressive mood after whole-brain radiation treatments, U.S. researchers say. The study, presented at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in Chicago, found mice with access to an exercise wheel less likely to suffer a decline in erasable memory after radiation and less likely to show depressive-like behavior. (Source: Cancercompass News: Other Cancer)
Source: Cancercompass News: Other Cancer - October 23, 2009 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news

Teen drug use may impair memory later, study suggestsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Rats develop memory loss in adulthood after receiving high doses of amphetamines during their "teen" years, new research shows. (Source: USATODAY.com Health)
Source: USATODAY.com Health - October 22, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Limbic encephalitis associated with systemic lupus erythematosus.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A 34-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) presented with general fatigue, seizures and memory loss. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain showed a high signal area in the mesial temporal lobe bilaterally. Computed tomography scan of the chest and abdomen and ultrasound of pelvis detected no malignancy and tumour marker, antibodies to antineuronal antibodies (anti-Hu, anti-Ta and anti-Ma) and antibodies to voltage-gated potassium channels were all negative. The present case is limbic encephalitis (LE) associated with SLE and the pathogenesis may include autoimmunity shared. Our experience indicates t...
Source: Lupus - October 21, 2009 Category: Rheumatology Authors: Kano O, Arasaki K, Ikeda K, Aoyagi J, Shiraishi H, Motomura M, Iwasaki Y Tags: Lupus Source Type: journals

Psychosis From Anticholinergic Medications Administered at a Smoking Cessation ClinicEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Anticholinergic medications are used for a variety of reasons, from their effects on the central nervous system to their effects on the gastrointestinal tract. They are used in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, vertigo, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and peptic ulcer disease. They have also been used in the treatment of motion sickness. These medications must be used with caution due to their effects on other systems, including the central nervous system. Common central nervous system side effects due to anticholinergic medications include sedation, delirium, amnesia, and in the case of the patient presented in...
Source: Journal of Pharmacy Practice - October 21, 2009 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Minton, J. A., Tofade, T. S., Shah, S. A. Tags: Topics in Internal Medicine Source Type: journals

Exercise helps brain after radiationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CHICAGO, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Exercise may protect against both memory-loss and depressive mood after whole-brain radiation treatments, U.S. researchers say. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 20, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Natural history of recovery from brain injury after prolonged disorders of consciousness: outcome of patients admitted to inpatient rehabilitation with 1-4 year follow-up. - Katz DI, Polyak M, Coughlan D, Nichols M, Roche A.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The natural history of recovery from brain injury typically consists of a period of impaired consciousness, a subsequent period of confusion and amnesia, followed by a period of post-confusional recovery of function. Patients with more severe injuries may ... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - October 18, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: info

Olive oil compound linked to Alzheimer'sEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CHICAGO, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- A compound in olive oil targets and blocks toxic proteins that damage brain cells and cause memory loss in Alzheimer's disease victims, U.S. researchers said. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Olive oil compound may fight Alzheimer'sEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CHICAGO, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- A compound in olive oil targets and blocks toxic proteins that damage brain cells and cause memory loss in Alzheimer's disease victims, U.S. researchers said. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

We Don't Know What We're MissingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There are experiences with nature - so beautiful, so deep - that we're losing. We don't have to lose them. We can chose otherwise.But it's difficult to chose otherwise because we're hardly aware of what we're missing. Why are we hardly aware? One explanation that I wrote of last month [click here] focuses on the problem of environmental generational amnesia.In a nutshell here's the problem: Across generations people construct a conception of what is environmentally normal based on the natural world encountered in childhood. The upside is that children start afresh, unencumbered psychologically by the environmental misdeeds...
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - October 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Ph.D. Tags: Child Development Evolutionary Psychology Happiness Pets Relationships Stress amnesia Cataracts continuous stream downside eclipse environmental degradation environmental generational amnesia evolutions extreme beauty flock Source Type: consumer

University Of The Basque Country Study On Proteins Related To AlzheimerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The cause, or at least one of the possible causes, of memory loss amongst Alzheimer sufferers is related to the location of certain proteins. The aim of this University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) PhD thesis was to analyse the location of certain proteins related to AlzheimerÂ´s. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alzheimer's / Dementia Source Type: news

Dementia and capsular genu ischemia in patients with severe bacterial meningitisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract Infarction in the genu of the internal capsule causes dementia that is characterized by abulia, lethargy and memory loss without obvious motor palsy (capsular genu syndrome). We found infarction or decreased cerebral blood flow in the genu of the internal capsule in 6 of 13 patients with severe bacterial meningitis. Four of these six patients developed post-meningitis dementia, characterized by abulia, lethargy, and memory loss. Of 24 patients with viral meningitis, none developed capsular genu ischemia or post-meningitis dementia. In patients with severe bacterial meningitis, capsular genu ischemia...
Source: Neurological Sciences - October 16, 2009 Category: Neurology Tags: Neurological Sciences Source Type: journals