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| LIQUORICE DRUG BOOSTS MEMORY IN ELDERLY |
| A compound based on a liquorice extract improves memory in older men, shows a new study. |
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| ‘SLEEP ON IT’ IS GOOD ADVICE TO IMPROVE MEMORY |
| Nothing beats a good night's sleep, especially to retrieve memory or to boost the ability to learn language, says US research.
The benefits of sleep are well known, but researchers at the University of Chicago have published research in the journal Nature which shows that while we sleep, brain activity encourages higher types of learning. |
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| INFANTS MORE VULNERABLE TO SERIOUS BRAIN INJURY FROM FALLING THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT |
| Babies are more vulnerable to serious head injury during a fall than had been previously thought, according to new research that may also begin to help child abuse investigators distinguish between accidental and intentional injury. |
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| ANTIOXIDANTS SAVE BRAIN CELLS FROM ALCOHOL DAMAGE |
| An artificial antioxidant appears to protect brain cells from the damage caused by alcohol, according to research on rats by an international team. |
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| VACCINE AGAINST MAD COW DISEASE NOW POSSIBLE |
| A new antibody capable of locking onto the prion proteins that cause brain-wasting mad cow disease - and similar human ailments - has been developed by researchers, allowing early diagnosis and maybe even a vaccine. |
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| SNORING LINKED TO HEADACHES |
| People who suffer from chronic daily headaches are far more likely to be chronic snorers than people who have only occasional headaches, a new U.S. study has found. |
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| POOR MEMORY WITH AGE LINKED TO HIGH BLOOD SUGAR |
| Losing memory as you age may not be inevitable, according to U.S. research which suggests that maintaining low blood sugar levels through diet and exercise may keep memories intact longer. |
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| BRAIN CAN REORGANIZE AFTER TRAUMATIC INJURY |
| People who have suffered a moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) can recover some of their memory function by using alternate brain networks, according to a new study in the August 2002 issue of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. |
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| STRANGE ENCOUNTERS OF A REFLECTIVE KIND |
| An Australian neuropsychologist is working on the causes of an unusual condition in which people fail to recognise their own reflections in the mirror. |
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| RESEARCHERS IDENTIFY GENE IN RARE FORM OF EPILEPSY. FINDINGS MAY PROVIDE NOVEL INSIGHTS INTO MORE COMMON EPILEPSY. |
| Columbia Health Sciences researchers have identified a gene implicated in a rare form of epilepsy, a finding that could provide insights into the cause of common epilepsy. |
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| NEW COMPOUNDS SUPPRESS NEUROINFLAMMATION OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE |
| Researchers from Northwestern University and the Universite’ Louis Pasteur in France have synthesized a new class of chemicals which suppress the cellular signaling processes that trigger inflammation of brain cells, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and other neurodegenerative diseases. |
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| THE OLDEST RECORD OF EPILEPSY |
| Ezekiel's visions may owe as much to disease as to divine inspiration. The Bible may contain the oldest recorded case of temporal lobe epilepsy. Ezekiel, the prophet whose visions are recorded in a book of the Old Testament, apparently had all the classic signs of the condition. |
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