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Visual Memory Improved By Strobe Eyewear Training
Date: Jul-25-2012Stroboscopic training, performing a physical activity while using eyewear that simulates a strobe-like experience, has been found to increase visual short-term memory retention, and the effects lasted 24 hours. Participants in a Duke University study engaged in physical activities, such as playing catch, while using either specialized eyewear that limits vision to only brief snapshots or while using eyewear with clear lenses that provides uninterrupted vision. Participants completed a computer-based visual memory test before and after the physical activities...
Snacking And BMI Linked To Double Effect Of Brain Activity And Self-Control
Date: Jul-25-2012Snack consumption and BMI are linked to both brain activity and self-control, new research has found. The research, carried out by academics from the Universities of Exeter, Cardiff, Bristol, and Bangor, discovered that an individual's brain 'reward centre' response to pictures of food predicted how much they subsequently ate...
Wakeful Resting Can Boost New Memories
Date: Jul-25-2012Too often our memory starts acting like a particularly porous sieve: all the important fragments that should be caught and preserved somehow just disappear. So armed with pencils and bolstered by caffeine, legions of adults, especially older adults, tackle crossword puzzles, acrostics, Sudoku and a host of other activities designed to strengthen their flagging memory muscles. But maybe all they really need to do to cement new learning is to sit and close their eyes for a few minutes...
Newly-Discovered Molecular Mechanism Might Explain The Link Between Stem Cells And Cancer
Date: Jul-25-2012Stem cells hold great promise for the medicine of the future, but they can also be a cause of disease. When these self-renewing, unspecialized cells fail to differentiate into diverse cell types, they can start dividing uncontrollably, leading to cancer. Already several decades ago, Weizmann Institute scientists were among the first to demonstrate the link between cancer and the faulty differentiation of stem cells. Now a new Weizmann Institute-led study, published in Molecular Cell, reveals a potential molecular mechanism behind this link...
New Understanding Of Diabetes And Kidney Disease May Lead To Effective New Treatments
Date: Jul-25-2012Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center have identified biological mechanisms by which glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), a gut hormone, protects against kidney disease, and also mechanisms that inhibit its actions in diabetes. The findings, which are reported online by Diabetes, may lead to the development of new therapeutic agents that harness the actions of GLP-1 to prevent the harmful effects of hyperglycemia on renal endothelial cells...
Quality Of Life Of Children With Trisomy 13 And 18 May Be Better Than That Predicted By Physicians
Date: Jul-25-2012Children with trisomy 13 or 18, who are for the most part severely disabled and have a very short life expectancy, and their families lead a life that is happy and rewarding overall, contrary to the usually gloomy predictions made by the medical community at the time of diagnosis, according to a study of parents who are members of support groups published in Pediatrics. The study was conducted by Dr...
Very Promising Target For Treatment Of Melanoma, As Part Of A Combination Therapy
Date: Jul-25-2012A melanoma is a malignant form of skin cancer and is one of the most aggressive types of tumors there is. Treatment is particularly difficult, because melanomas are usually resistant against conventional chemotherapy treatments. Agnieszka Gembarska and Chris Marine. (VIB/KU Leuven) have found a new line of approach in which to treat these aggressive skin cancers, namely by combating the interaction between the protein MDM4 and the tumor suppressor p53...
Children With Trisomy 13 And 18 Are Happy Despite Popular Beliefs
Date: Jul-24-2012Trisomies 13 and 18 are rare chromosome disorders, which are predominantly diagnosed prior to a child's birth and sometimes after. Children with trisomy 13 or 18 generally do not survive beyond their first year of life, and those who do are severely disabled and only live a short life. When diagnosed before birth, parents often decide to have an abortion, whilst those who continue the pregnancy often have a miscarriage...
Nerve Stimulation May Be Able To Treat Autism, Stroke, Tinnitus And More
Date: Jul-24-2012Researchers from UT Dallas explained how specific experiences, like sounds or movements, paired with nerve stimulation can reorganize the brain. This new technology could be the beginning of new treatments for tinnitus, autism, stroke, and other disorders. The speed, at which the brain works in laboratory animals, could be altered by pairing stimulation of the vagus nerve with fast or slow sounds, according to UT Dallas neuroscientists in a related paper. Dr. Robert Rennaker and Dr...
Tick Bites May Cause Red Meat Allergy
Date: Jul-24-2012A new study by Susan Wolver, MD, and Diane Sun, MD, from Virginia Commonwealth University, and colleagues, discovered that the tick bite is the cause for a delayed allergic reaction to red meat. Their research, published by Springer in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, explains why people bitten by a tick may become allergic to red meat. Delayed anaphylaxis - a severe, life-threatening allergic reaction to meat - is a new syndrome that was initially identified in the southeastern United States. Ticks are tiny spider-like bugs...
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