Study: Moderate lifetime drinking may lead to lower Alzheimer-related beta amyloid deposits in the brain

__ Mod­er­ate drink­ing tied to low­er lev­els of Alzheimer’s brain pro­tein (Busi­ness Stan­dard): “Kore­an researchers stud­ied 414 men and women, aver­age age 71, who were free of demen­tia or alco­hol-relat­ed dis­or­ders. All under­went phys­i­cal exams, tests of men­tal acu­ity, and positron emis­sion tomog­ra­phy (PET) and mag­net­ic res­o­nance imag­ing (MRI) scans. They were care­ful­ly inter­viewed about…

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Neuroimaging study finds significant changes in brain structure during long-duration space flight

MRI reveals brain changes dur­ing space mis­sions (Med­ical Physics): “Astro­nauts liv­ing and work­ing in space will expe­ri­ence the detri­men­tal effects of micro­grav­i­ty on the human body. Astro­nauts aboard the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion, for exam­ple, have expe­ri­enced altered vision and increased pres­sure inside their heads, symp­toms termed as 

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Next: Brain scans to identify children at high risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) before symptoms appear

______________________________ MS risk in chil­dren spot­ted with MRI brain scans (Yale News): “By the time mul­ti­ple scle­ro­sis (MS) is diag­nosed in chil­dren, it may be dif­fi­cult to pre­vent the dis­abil­i­ties and relaps­es that come with the dis­ease. In a new Yale School of Med­i­cine study, researchers exam­ined MRI brain scans to iden­ti­fy chil­dren at high risk…

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Monitoring and stimulating brain activity to achieve desired brain state: Key Neurotech Patent #10

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Today we are shar­ing a 2002 patent describ­ing a sys­tem link­ing brain sig­nal detec­tion to brain stim­u­la­tion tech­niques. U.S. Patent No. 6,488,617: Method and device for pro­duc­ing a desired brain state Assignee(s): Uni­ver­sal Hedo­nics Inventor(s): Bruce F. Katz Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: Hybrid Issue Date: Decem­ber 3, 2002 Sharp­Brains’ Take: The ‘617 patent describes a sys­tem link­ing brain sig­nal detection…

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The Mediterranean Diet seen to substantially reduce brain shrinkage among older adults

—– Less shrink­age: This is your aging brain on the Mediter­ranean diet (Los Ange­les Times): “The aging brain is a shrink­ing brain, and a shrink­ing brain is, gen­er­al­ly speak­ing, a brain whose per­for­mance and reac­tion time are declin­ing: That is a harsh real­i­ty of grow­ing old­er. But new research shows that brain shrink­age is less pro­nounced in…

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