By Yasmin Anwar University of California – Berkeley Findings suggest boosting ‘slow wave’ sleep could restore memory as we age The connection between poor sleep, memory loss and brain deterioration as we grow older has been elusive. But for the first...
By Andy Hoang Salk Institute – LA JOLLA, CA– Salk findings suggest vitamin D therapy could be a powerful weapon in the fight against liver fibrosis Liver fibrosis results from an excessive accumulation of tough, fibrous scar tissue and occurs in most types...
By Karin Eskenazi Columbia University Medical Center – New York, NY (April 18, 2013) — An excess of the brain neurotransmitter glutamate may cause a transition to psychosis in people who are at risk for schizophrenia, reports a study from investigators at...
By Rachael Zaleski Results of systematic review of 13 controlled studies reported in Mayo Clinic Proceedings Rochester, MN, April 12, 2013 L-carnitine significantly improves cardiac health in patients after a heart attack, say a multicenter team of investigators in a...
By Anne DeLotto Baier University of South Florida researchers have suggested a new view of how stem cells may help repair the brain following trauma. In a series of preclinical experiments, they report that transplanted cells appear to build a “biobridge”...
