CONCLUSIONS: Patients wearing RFID wristbands are safe in 1.5 T and 3 T MR scanners using normal operation mode for RF-field. The findings are specific to the RFID tags that underwent testing. PMID: 20205829 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Patient Safety in Surgery)MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

Adults who have both diabetes and major depression are more than twice as likely to develop dementia, compared to adults with diabetes only, according to a study published in the recent Journal of General Internal Medicine. Dementia is the progressive decline of thinking and reasoning abilities. These can include memory loss, difficulty with basic math, wandering, living in the past, personality changes, and not recognizing familiar people. "Diabetes alone has shown to be a risk factor for dementia, as has major depression by itself," noted the lead author of the study, Dr... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Eur Neurol 2010;63:186–187 (DOI:10.1159/000290249) (Source: Karger Publishers)

Meditation can increase blood flow in the brain and improve memory, according to researchers who tested a specific kind of meditation and found the improvement after just eight weeks. (Source: WebMD Health)

Abstracts  Intracranial tuberculoma generally presents as either solitary or multiple lesions in the brain parenchyma. These are characterized by a ring-enhancing area on either computerized tomography scans or magnetic resonance images. A 66 year-old female with a history of breast carcinoma at 41 years, treated with radical mastectomy and radio and chemotherapy, and rheumatoid arthritis, treated in the last 10 years, presented two months ago with occipital headache, nausea, cerebellar syndrome, alterations of speech, and memory loss. The TC scan showed occipital enhancement by contrast and surrounded by oedema, suggesting metastasis. Histology showed a benign meningioma with many multinuclear giant cells, granulomas, and central caseating necrosis....

A 57-year-old man developed transient global amnesia within an hour of bolus unfractionated heparin administration on day 4 post-mitral valve replacement. Both immunoglobulin G-specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and serotonin release assay were strongly positive for the antibodies that cause heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. The patient's cognitive functions returned to normal following discontinuation of unfractionated heparin and warfarin and commencement of lepirudin infusion. (J Card Surg ****;**:**-**) (Source: Journal of Cardiac Surgery)MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

Stress raises the risk of memory loss and cognitive decline among older people with diabetes, research suggests. Researchers have studied more than 900 men and women aged between 60 and 75 with type-2 diabetes, which tends to be common after the age of 40. They found that brain function slowed in participants with higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)

The Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation announced data demonstrating that a specific meditation performed daily for eight weeks increased brain activity in areas central to memory and actually improved cognition in patients suffering from memory problems... (Source: Alzheimer's / Dementia News From Medical News Today)

The Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation announced data demonstrating that a specific meditation performed daily for eight weeks increased brain activity in areas central to memory and actually improved cognition in patients suffering from memory problems. The results of the study, conducted at the University of Pennsylvania, were published in an early online version of an article scheduled to appear in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease(i) (Volume 20:2, April 2010)... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Content Type Journal ArticleCategory CommentaryDOI 10.1007/s10615-010-0264-7Authors Suzanne England, New York University Silver School of Social Work New York NY USA Journal Clinical Social Work JournalOnline ISSN 1573-3343Print ISSN 0091-1674 (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)

(NaturalNews) Despite all the information concerning the adverse effects of aspartame and the endless trail of money and corruption by Searle Pharmaceutical and Donald Rumsfeld, this synthetic, artificial sweetener is still touted as the panacea to sugar. To send a loud and clear message to those who care little for the health of the people and more about the money generated from aspartame`s sale, there was a hearing in Hawaii to ban it. The following is testimony given at that hearing at our Capitol in Honolulu.TESTIMONY IN SUPPORT OF HB2680: TO BAN THE USE OF ASPARTAMEFor Hearing in Room #16, 1:15 P. M. MONDAY, 02/25/08PLEASE COPY AS COMMITTEE HANDOUT FOR THIS HEARINGTO: MEMBERS OF THE HEALTH COMMITTEENo doubt you will be lobbied by the big soda companies, the MSG using companies and oth...MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

Those who live in industrialized countries have easy access to healthy food and nutritional supplements, but magnesium deficiencies are still common. That's a problem because new research from Tel Aviv University suggests that magnesium, a key nutrient for the functioning of memory, may be even more critical than previously thought for the neurons of children and healthy brain cells in adults. Begun at MIT, the research started as a part of a post-doctoral project by Dr... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Those who live in industrialized countries have easy access to healthy food and nutritional supplements, but magnesium deficiencies are still common. That's a problem because new research from Tel Aviv University suggests that magnesium, a key nutrient for the functioning of memory, may be even more critical than previously thought for the neurons of children and healthy brain cells in adults... (Source: Seniors / Aging News From Medical News Today)

Researchers Link Elevated Level of Protein to Memory Loss, Decreased Gray Matter (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)

Researchers have found that a new synthetic magnesium compound works on both young and aging animals to enhance memory or prevent its impairment. Their study was carried out over a five-year period and has significant implications for the use of over-the-counter magnesium supplements. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)

Authors: Guan J, Zhang R, Dale-Gandar L, Hodgkinson S, Vickers MH In rats, cyclo-L-glycyl-L-2-allylproline (NNZ-2591), a diketopiperazine, is neuroprotective after ischemic brain injury and also improves motor function in a model of Parkinson disease. Given nootropic actions of diketopiperazines, we investigated the effects of and potential role for acetylcholine neurotransmission in NNZ-2591 on spatial memory after scopolamine-induced amnesia in rats. PMID: 20188767 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Behavioural Brain Research)

Authors: Nasehi M, Piri M, Nouri M, Farzin D, Nayer-Nouri T, Zarrindast MR Ingestion of harmane and other alkaloids derived from plant Peganum harmala has been shown to elicit profound behavioral and toxic effects in humans, including hallucinations, excitation, feelings of elation, and euphoria. These alkaloids in the high doses can cause a toxic syndrome characterized by tremors and convulsions. Harmane has also been shown to act on a variety of receptor systems in the mammalian brain, including those for serotonin, dopamine and benzodiazepines. In animals, it has been reported to affect short and long term memory. In the present study, effects of dopamine D(1) and D(2) receptor antagonists on the harmane (HA)-induced amnesia and exploratory behaviors were examined in mice. One-trial...MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

Authors: Pyter LM, Cochrane SF, Ouwenga RL, Patel PN, Pineros V, Prendergast BJ Cancer, in addition to many other chronic diseases, is associated with serious and problematic behavioral symptoms, including cognitive impairments. In humans, various factors likely contribute to cancer-associated cognitive deficits including disease awareness and chemotherapy; however, the endogenous biological factors arising from tumor development may also play a causal role. In the present study, rats with mammary tumors exhibited impaired spatial reference memory on a radial arm maze and amnesia for familiar objects in an object recognition memory test. In contrast, their performance in the Morris water maze and in fear conditioning tests was comparable to that of controls. These select cognitive impa...

According to research from Edinburgh University, stress increases the risk of memory loss and cognitive decline in older people with Type 2 diabetes. Analysing 900 men and women aged between 60 and 75 with Type 2 diabetes, the study found brain function slowed down in those who had higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol in their blood. Memory problems Memory loss is a recognised symptom among older people with diabetes but until now there was little evidence as to why... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

According to research from Edinburgh University, stress increases the risk of memory loss and cognitive decline in older people with Type 2 diabetes. Analysing 900 men and women aged between 60 and 75 with Type 2 diabetes, the study found brain function slowed down in those who had higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol in their blood... (Source: Diabetes News From Medical News Today)