Benzodiazepine use increases hip fractures in Alzheimer's disease patients supriya kashyap kashyap27 Nov 2016 10:07 AM ISTThe use of benzodiazepines and related drugs increases the risk of hip fracture by 43% in persons with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study...
Practice testing protects memory against stress supriya kashyap kashyap27 Nov 2016 10:04 AM ISTIn experiments involving 120 student participants, individuals who learned a series of words and images by retrieval practice showed no impairment in...
Cluster headaches: Painful but treatable supriya kashyap kashyap26 Nov 2016 11:04 AM ISTOften called the suicide headache because of the excruciating intensity of the pain, cluster headaches are three times more likely to strike men than...
Standard Treatment Guidelines for Brain Death And ICU Management supriya kashyap kashyap26 Nov 2016 9:48 AM ISTIt is important to recognize and diagnose brain death especially in patients who are potential organ donors. Early diagnosis, documentation and...
Focused-ultrasound device gets FDA approval to treat essential tremor supriya kashyap kashyap24 Nov 2016 10:48 AM ISTA device that uses transcranial focused ultrasound to destroy the MRI-identified pathologic area of the thalamus in essential tremor patients became...
Response to schizophrenia and bipolar treatment dictated by gene type supriya kashyap kashyap24 Nov 2016 9:48 AM ISTA drug prescribed to many patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder may decrease negative symptoms for people with a certain variant of the COMT...
Eyes can reveal onset of Alzheimer's disease savita thakur thakur22 Nov 2016 11:58 AM ISTNew York: In a breakthrough research, US scientists have identified that early signs of Alzheimer's disease can be detected by looking at the back of...
Surprisng coexistence: Superior memory with Alzheimer’s pathology supriya kashyap kashyap20 Nov 2016 10:28 AM ISTWell-established research suggests extensive plaques and tangles in the brain result in the death of neurons and are an indicator of Alzheimer's...
Kochi surgeons develop a new cost effective treatment for epilepsy supriya kashyap kashyap17 Nov 2016 10:46 AM ISTKochi : Neurosurgeons at a Kochi hospital have devised a non-invasive and cheap treatment for epilepsy, considered to be the first time in India. The...
Brain training can help in fight against dementia, meta analysis shows supriya kashyap kashyap16 Nov 2016 12:55 PM ISTResearchers at the University of Sydney have found that engaging in computer-based brain training can improve memory and mood in older adults with...
Brain scans help predict response to psychotherapy for anxiety,depression: Harvard Review of Psychiatry supriya kashyap kashyap14 Nov 2016 10:53 AM ISTBrain imaging scans may one day provide useful information on the response to psychotherapy in patients with depression or anxiety, according to a...
Mumbai: 8 month old epileptic infant undergoes successful brain surgery Noha12 Nov 2016 2:59 PM ISTMumbai: Barely a year old, Jaishan Tamilarasan from Coimbatore would be one of the youngest babies to have undergone a brain surgery at the Kokilaben...
