A unique study by researchers at the University of York and Hull York Medical School has confirmed a link between depression and low levels of folate, a vitamin which comes from vegetables.In research published in the July edition of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, the York team l
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Many people with early dementia are capable of driving safely, say researchers in this week's BMJ. Society's perception of older drivers tends to be negative, write Professor Desmond O'Neill and colleagues. Yet surveys of drivers aged more than 80 consistently show prudent driving behaviours. Furth
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Two new studies suggest older men and women taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, a class of antidepressants that includes Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft, are prone to increased bone loss. [click link for full article]
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A drug based on the design of a Purdue University researcher to treat Alzheimer's disease began the first phase of human clinical trials this week."Millions of people suffer from this devastating disease and treatment options are very limited," said Arun Ghosh, the Purdue professor who led the crea
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A drug based on the design of a Purdue University researcher to treat Alzheimer's disease began the first phase of human clinical trials this week. "Millions of people suffer from this devastating disease and treatment options are very limited," said Arun Ghosh, the Purdue professor who led the cre
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Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center today announced that James McInerney, M.D., associate professor of neurosurgery, and director of stereotactic and functional neurosurgery, Penn State Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine, in collaboration with Elana Farace, Ph.D. [cli
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Autistic children have a capacity to understand other people through stereotypes, say scientists at UCL (University College London). The research shows that autistic children are just as able as others to predict people's behaviour when stereotypes, such as gender and race, are the only available g
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Adding to the evidence that maternal drug use can have lasting effects, a new study finds that young schoolchildren of cocaine-using moms scored more poorly on attention tests. Researchers looked at test scores of 415 African-American children who took tests at age 5 or 7 (now 14 to 16 years old).
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Using new MRI techniques to analyze tissue composition and structure in the brain, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the National Institute on Aging successfully detected mild cognitive disorder (MCI), a condition in which patients suffer mild memory problems an
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