04.19.08
Posted in Memory loss at 2:20 am by admin
A new study has found that people who most often experience negative emotions such as depression and anxiety were 40 percent more likely to develop mild cognitive impairment than those who were least prone to negative emotions.
Experts say mild cognitive impairment, where people experience mild memory or cognitive problems, but have no significant disability, is a transitional stage between normal aging and dementia. According to the latest research, people who are easily distressed and have more negative emotions are more likely to develop memory problems than more easygoing types.
The researchers examined the results of previous research which involved 1,256 people with no cognitive impairment and found in the 12 years of follow-up, that 482 people developed mild cognitive impairment.An evaluation process was devised which asked questions regarding the participants susceptibility to distress and negative emotions such as “I am not a worrier,” “I often feel tense and jittery,” and “I often get angry at the way people treat me.”
The findings suggest that, over a lifetime, chronic experience of stress affects the area of the brain that governs stress response and unfortunately, that is also the part of the brain that regulates memory.
People differ in how they tend to experience and handle negative emotions and psychological distress, and the way people respond tends to stay the same throughout their adult lives.
In an earlier study found that people who are easily distressed are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than more easygoing people.
There are several factors which suggest to researchers that a proneness to stress is a risk factor for memory problems and not an early sign of disease.
It seems that while the level of distress does not appear to increase in old age, the changes in the brain related to memory problems and Alzheimer’s disease do increase with age.
Latest research suggests that chronic stress may harm parts of the brain responsible for responding to stress and might lead to early treatments, such as promoting exercise to reduce stress or drug therapy for depression.
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Posted in Memory loss at 2:17 am by admin
In the study, those who most often experience negative emotions such as depression and anxiety were 40 percent more likely to develop mild cognitive impairment than those who were least prone to negative emotions. Mild cognitive impairment is a transitional stage between normal aging and dementia. People with mild cognitive impairment have mild memory or cognitive problems, but have no significant disability. People who are easily distressed and have more negative emotions are more likely to develop memory problems than more easygoing people, according to a study published in the June 12, 2007, issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
People differ in how they tend to experience and deal with negative emotions and psychological distress, and the way people respond tends to stay the same throughout their adult lives. These findings suggest that, over a lifetime, chronic experience of stress affects the area of the brain that governs stress response. Unfortunately, that part of the brain also regulates memory.
Researchers analyzed the results from two larger studies, the Religious Orders Study and the Memory and Aging Project, which involved 1,256 people with no cognitive impairment. During up to 12 years of follow-up, 482 people developed mild cognitive impairment. Participants were evaluated on their level of proneness to distress and negative emotions by rating their level of agreement with statements such as I am not a worrier,” I often feel tense and jittery,” and I often get angry at the way people treat me.”
An earlier study showed that people who are easily distressed are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than more easygoing people.
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Posted in Aging, Provacyl Review at 2:15 am by admin
The study found that elderly patients who developed these postoperative cognitive problems were more likely to die in the first year after surgery. Patients over the age of 60 who have elective surgeries such as joint replacements, hysterectomies and other non-emergency, inpatient procedures, are at an increased risk for long-term cognitive problems, according to a new study led by Duke University Medical Center researchers.
The researchers measured memory and the ability to process information in more than 1000 adult patients of different ages. Patients were tested preoperatively, at the time of hospital discharge, and three months after surgery. More than 200 control subjects took the same tests at the same frequency, but did not undergo surgery or anesthesia. The researchers published their findings in the January 1, 2008 issue of the journal Anesthesiology and the results were published early online on December 27, 2007 on the journal’s Web site. The article is accompanied by a supportive editorial and a companion article detailing the types of cognitive dysfunction that developed and the effects on patients’ daily lives. The study was funded by the National Institute on Aging, the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation and the I. Heerman Foundation.
The study found that many of the young, middle-aged and elderly patients experienced postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) at the time they left the hospital. But three months later, those aged 60 and older were more than twice as likely to exhibit POCD. Those with POCD at both the time of hospital discharge and three months after surgery also were more likely to die within the first year after surgery.
Studies on normal aging have shown a link between abrupt cognitive decline and early death, so we speculated that surgery-related cognitive dysfunction might have the same effect.
Why some patients suffer POCD is not known, but one hypothesis is that surgery and the accompanying anesthesia might cause inflammation in the brain that can affect the patient’s ability to learn, retain or remember information. Now that the implications of long-term POCD are better understood, doctors must devise strategies to prevent or mitigate the detrimental effects of surgery and anesthesia on the aging brain. The types of interventions and how to implement them will be the subject of further research.
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Posted in Insomnia at 2:14 am by admin
Older people with insomnia slept better and longer after using an natural supplement Provacyl.
W. Vaughn McCall, M.D., a sleep expert, presented his findings today (May 6) at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in New York City. The study showed that drug, called Provacyl, has high efficiency.
Though 40 million Americans suffer from insomnia, McCall said the study focused on patients 65 and older because insomnia tends to be more common in older people.
The elderly are more easily awakened by noise, pain or light and tend to have difficulty sleeping for extended periods and achieving deep, restful sleep states. As a result, elderly adults often get less sleep than they need, leading to increased napping or diminished next-day functioning, which can impact their quality of life.
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Posted in Insomnia at 2:13 am by admin
Researchers say insomnia is a common problem that warrants increased attention from doctors who care for older adults. The study presents a five-step approach to diagnose and manage insomnia in these patients. If followed, data shows that doctors could help to reduce sleep disturbances in the geriatric population. Researchers outline five basic steps to help doctors identify and treat insomnia in elderly patients.
The steps include:
- elaboration of the problem,
- determining if there is a medical or psychiatric emergency,
- detection through asking patients questions,
- further evaluation of chronic insomnia, if present, and
- intervention, which can include pharmacological treatment.
Insomnia can be cause by numerous factors, but can be treated successfully either through lifestyle and behavioral changes or through medications.
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Posted in Aging at 2:11 am by admin
Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered a gene responsible for the onset of aging, including age-related disorders such as infertility, reproductive problems and cataracts.
This research, conducted in genetically modified mice, is promising in helping physicians understand and treat the same disorders in humans.
“Darren Baker in our laboratory found that mutant mice with low amounts of BubR1 protein live five times shorter than normal mice. They also develop a variety of age-related disorders at a very young age,” says lead investigator Jan van Deursen, Ph.D., of the Mayo Clinic Departments of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Another Mayo investigator, Karthik Jeganathan, discovered that mice with low amounts of BubR1 protein are infertile and unable to distribute chromosomes properly when their germ cells divide. Abnormal numbers of chromosomes in germ cells are a hallmark of reproductive aging in humans, and the primary cause of increased still births and birth defects, such as Down syndrome, in women over 35 years of age. Says Dr. van Deursen, “Given the age-dependent decline in ovarian BubR1 in mice, it seems reasonable to assume that this protein may contribute to age-related infertility and certain birth defects in humans.”
Dr. van Deursen says, “This prompted us to investigate whether BubR1 protein levels go down as normal mice age naturally — which is indeed what we found. Based on these findings, we believe it is the decline of this protein with time that may trigger some of the physiological effects of aging.”
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Posted in Aging at 2:08 am by admin
One of the study’s more surprising results was that these gene changes start in the 40s for some individuals. The results raise intriguing questions about when and why the brain begins to age and the possibility of developing strategies to protect critical genes early in life in an attempt to preserve brain function and delay the onset of age-related conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.
To investigate age-associated molecular changes in the human brain, Dr. Bruce A. Yankner, professor in the Department of Neurology and Division of Neuroscience at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, and colleagues examined patterns of gene expression in postmortem samples collected from thirty individuals ranging in age from 26 to 106 years.
Using a sophisticated screening technique called transcriptional profiling that evaluates thousands of genes at a time, the researchers identified two groups of genes with significantly altered expression levels in the brains of older individuals. A gene’s expression level is an indicator of whether or not the gene is functioning properly. “We found that genes that play a role in learning and memory were among those most significantly reduced in the aging human cortex,” said Yankner. “These include genes that are required for communication between neurons.”
The researchers then went on to show that many of the genes with altered expression in the brain were badly damaged and could not function properly. They showed that these genes also could be selectively damaged in brain cells grown in the laboratory, thereby mimicking some of the changes of the aging brain. In addition to a reduction in genes important for cognitive function, there was an elevated expression of genes that are associated with stress and repair mechanisms and genes linked to inflammation and immune responses. This is evidence that pathological events may be occurring in the aging brain, possibly related to gene damage.
If you examine brain gene patterns among young adults, they are quite similar. In very old adults, there is some increased variability, but there is still similarity between individuals. In contrast, individuals in the middle age population between 40 and 70 years of age are much more variable. Some middle-aged individuals exhibit gene patterns that look more like the young group, whereas others show gene patterns that look more like the old group. This is evidence that people may age differently during middle age. It will now be of great interest to understand what it is that makes some people age more rapidly than others.
These findings raise the exciting possibility that treatments or lifestyles that reduce gene damage in young adults may delay cognitive decline and the onset of brain diseases in later years. However, more research is needed. We can repair these aging genes in the laboratory, but that is a far cry from the human brain. This is only a first step.
Future directions of Dr. Yankner’s lab include investigating whether these changes of normal aging are responsible for age-related conditions such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease in some individuals. A major goal is the development of therapeutic approaches to preventing gene damage in the brain that could conceivably preserve cognitive function and prevent or delay the onset of neurodegenerative diseases. Along these lines, his lab is also interested in determining whether gene damage in the brain can be reversed after it occurs.
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So don’t just sit back and let old age happen to you. By following a regimen, you can slow down and even reverse aging.
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Posted in Hair loss at 2:07 am by admin
A healthy individual loses around a hundred hairs a day. Nothing to worry about as long as they are constantly replaced and the losses occur evenly around the whole scalp.
But when hair loss goes well beyond this level it can become quite a problem for those affected - not only superficially in terms of looks but also psychologically. A breakthrough on the hair front has now been made by an international research team headed by scientists at the University of Bonn. After six years of research they have succeeded in identifying a gene that is responsible for a rare hereditary form of hair loss known as Hypotrichosis simplex. The scientists are the first to identify a receptor that plays a role in hair growth.
“Although Hypotrichosis simplex is very uncommon, it may prove critical in our search for an understand of the mechanisms of hair growth,” says project leader Dr. Regina Betz from Bonn’s Institute of Human Genetics, summing up the research results. The disease is inherited and affects both men and women. Sufferers generally begin to go bald during childhood. The process of hair loss (alopecia) then advances with age, especially around the scalp.
The cause of Hypotrichosis simplex in the form examined in this project is a genetic defect. It prevents certain receptor structures on the surface of hair follicle cells from being correctly formed. It has been found that when messengers from outside bind to these receptors they trigger a chain reaction in the cell interior which is apparently needed for the hair follicle to function normally. Such a receptor that plays a specific role in hair growth was previously unknown to scientists.Key to new drugs to combat hair loss
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So don’t just sit back and let old age happen to you. By following a regimen, you can slow down and even reverse aging.
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Posted in Hair loss at 2:05 am by admin
The team at the University of Pennsylvania say though damaged hair follicles were thought to be irreplaceable, hair growth can be encouraged using a single gene. Scientists who have helped create new hair cells on the skin of mice say hair loss may be reversible.Buy Provacyl® Online | Provacyl Review › Edit — WordPress
The human head has as many as 100,000 tiny hair follicles, from each of which grows a single hair and as the follicles are produced in the embryo stage of human development it was thought that no further replacement follicles could be produced during life.
The scientists found that if the action of the wnt gene was blocked, no hair follicles were produced, but if it was boosted, then many more hair follicles were produced, and the skin layer eventually became indistinguishable from surrounding areas. In an experiment using mice, small sections of the outer skin layer, or epidermis, were removed from the creatures and the procedure appeared to awaken stem cell activity in the area, which included the production of a number of hair follicles. The findings could lead to remedies for male-pattern baldness and other types of hair-loss.
Experts say the study provides convincing evidence that the skin has remarkable powers of regeneration, and shows that under certain conditions hair follicles can be created. This study demonstrates that mammals possess greater regenerative abilities than commonly believed and the findings could prove more important in the development of better wound healing techniques.
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Provacyl® is a supplement made from quality ingredients, made to promote your body’s natural testosterone. Provacyl will restore your physical and mental condition. This new natural medicine is capable to exempt you from stress and depression. Because it’s a supplement and not a medication, you don’t need a prescription and it’s free of any side effects. You’ve undoubtedly heard of how good ginkgo biloba is for you, rejuvenating your blood flow and improving sexual function, or that Brazil’s acai fruit is a great antioxidant. These are just a few of the herbal ingredients. On top of these though, Provacyl also combines Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), which converts into testosterone and other sex hormones, and Growth Hormone (GH), which has been applauded by medical researchers as the fountain of youth.
So don’t just sit back and let old age happen to you. By following a regimen, you can slow down and even reverse aging.
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