Neurology Medicine

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According to statements by one of the authors of the research, psychologist Denise Head, appeared in a statement from Washington University, the results are a first step toward understanding how personality can affect brain aging. Head argues that these data clearly demonstrate a relationship between personality and brain volume, particularly in brain regions associated with social information processing and emotions.

Also, the researcher adds that the results suggest that personality influences the degree of aging of the human brain and also the way the brain aging may affect the personality of each individual. The researchers plan to conduct future studies to monitor the structural changes that will suffer the brain of the participants in this research, in order to deepen this process and its links to personality.

A team of psychologists at Washington University in St. Louis, USA, has discovered a relationship between the personality of older people and the state of the brain in old age. According to the scientists in an article published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, in general, during aging, there is a reduction in the volumes of certain brain regions, particularly in the middle temporal and prefrontal areas. However, these reductions or changes do not occur equally in all people, because, according to the results, neuroanatomical integrity can be modified to a lesser or greater extent depending on certain individual personality traits. Read the rest of this entry »

The Brain Dynamics Andalusian company develops a draft IDI, co-funded by the Technological Corporation of Andalusia (CTA) and the Agency for Innovation and Development of Andalusia (IDEA), to achieve a method of early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s based on an artificial intelligence system in creating a map of the brain. In this sense, CTA said that the company developed a brain mapping Malaga average healthy population and a population with Alzheimer’s and a system based on artificial intelligence to interpret it. Read the rest of this entry »

Recent studies rule out racial differences in predisposition to develop Alzheimer’s disease

According to a team of researchers from University Medical Center Chicago Rush, cognitive impairment is four times faster in older people with Alzheimer’s, with no difference between blacks and whites. The journal Neurology, the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), has just published the results of a study that measures the rate of cognitive decline and its precursor, mild cognitive impairment in people who develop Alzheimer’s disease. Read the rest of this entry »

Grape seed might help combat degenerative brain diseases like Alzheimer’s disease because they are rich in compounds that prevent this degenerative condition characteristic of old age. Experts from Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, found that mice fed with grape seed extract for six months, had better cognitive function compared with those who had a normal diet. Read the rest of this entry »

Biotechnology company Biotech Araclon Aragon has been invited to participate in BioChicago 2010, the largest biotechnology fair in the world, to present the results of his research on Alzheimer’s disease, along with two of the most prestigious Spanish biotech companies. In particular, Araclon Biotech, owned by Viamed Health Group, has staged a conference to present their progress in Alzheimer research in a monographic session on the disease within the Congress, held 3 to 6 May in Chicago with the assistance of more than 14,000 professionals, the company said in a statement. Read the rest of this entry »

People with some kind of neurodegenerative disease like Alzheimer’s, are “more likely” than others to malnutrition, since this type of disease involves the “progressive loss” of cognitive functions, leading to a decline in the performance daily activities, among which is adequate food. This has been one of the topics discussed by Dr. Francisca Pereyra in the course on specific nutritional support is developed in the Hospital Our Lady of Candelaria, Tenerife, Canary Islands the government said in a press release. Read the rest of this entry »

Surgery for Treatable Dementia could also help in Alzheimer’s

A brain shunt that is normally used to treat less common neurological disease, may help some people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

The other disease, normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) occurs when an excess accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricles, or cavities, from the depths of the brain. The reasons for the accumulation of fluid is unknown, but tends to occur in older people, said study author Dr. Sebastian Koga, chief resident and surgeon in the department of neurosurgery of the Center for Health Sciences at the University of Virginia . Read the rest of this entry »

Clarifying the mechanism of Alzheimer’s Disease

A major Australian study has provided new and crucial knowledge of structural damage in a certain region of the brain and its potential association with Alzheimer’s disease. I found points to a buildup of beta-amyloid protein in a brain region known as the inferior temporal cortex. This region is connected to the hippocampus, which is involved in memory. Read the rest of this entry »

How to Communicate With an Alzheimer’s Patient?

As you know, as the disease progresses, the vocabulary of the sick person is reduced gradually, reaching a time will not be able to name the objects that surround him and even to express their feelings or desires or call our behalf, and to understand what we say. Communicating with person who have neuro problem can be frustrating, but we should never think that reducing our dialogue, questions and phrases are going to help, but quite the opposite. We must always look for strategies that allow us to continue communicating with him, even in the final stage of the disease. Read the rest of this entry »