July 03, '09: study from Netherlands finds statins can protect nerve cells against damage known to occur in Alzheimer's
Category: Misc. Medical News - Not MS Related
Posted by: stuart
Information provided by Carmen B., in Miami
American Heart Association reports percentage meeting cholesterol standards has doubled in decade; study from Netherlands finds statins can protect nerve cells against damage known to occur in Alzheimer's
STATINS GET CREDIT FOR BIG REDUCTION OF BAD CHOLESTEROL, PROTECTION FROM ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
June 22, 2009 – The news for statins today was great. The American Heart Association credits statins as a significant reason that the percentage of people lowering their elevated “bad” cholesterol to within the recommended range has almost doubled in the last decade. And, from The Netherlands comes a study showing statins can protect us from Alzheimer’s disease.
The good newsabout the dramatic reduction in “bad” cholesterol comes from a multi-national survey reported today in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
In the Lipid Treatment Assessment Project (L-TAP) 2 — a survey of nearly 10,000 patients (average age 62) from nine countries undergoing cholesterol-lowering and management efforts — researchers found that:
=============================================American Heart Association reports percentage meeting cholesterol standards has doubled in decade; study from Netherlands finds statins can protect nerve cells against damage known to occur in Alzheimer's
STATINS GET CREDIT FOR BIG REDUCTION OF BAD CHOLESTEROL, PROTECTION FROM ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
June 22, 2009 – The news for statins today was great. The American Heart Association credits statins as a significant reason that the percentage of people lowering their elevated “bad” cholesterol to within the recommended range has almost doubled in the last decade. And, from The Netherlands comes a study showing statins can protect us from Alzheimer’s disease.
The good newsabout the dramatic reduction in “bad” cholesterol comes from a multi-national survey reported today in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
In the Lipid Treatment Assessment Project (L-TAP) 2 — a survey of nearly 10,000 patients (average age 62) from nine countries undergoing cholesterol-lowering and management efforts — researchers found that:
July 01, '08: New Map IDs The Core Of The Human Brain
Category: Misc. Medical News - Not MS Related
Posted by: stuart
ScienceDaily (July 1, 2008) — An international team of researchers has created the first complete high-resolution map of how millions of neural fibers in the human cerebral cortex -- the outer layer of the brain responsible for higher level thinking -- connect and communicate. Their groundbreaking work identified a single network core, or hub, that may be key to the workings of both hemispheres of the brain.
The work by the researchers from Indiana University, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and Harvard Medical School marks a major step in understanding the most complicated and mysterious organ in the human body. It not only provides a comprehensive map of brain connections (the brain "connectome"), but also describes a novel application of a non-invasive technique that can be used by other scientists to continue mapping the trillions of neural connections in the brain at even greater resolution, which is becoming a new field of science termed "connectomics."
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"This is one of the first steps necessary for building large-scale computational models of the human brain to help us understand processes that are difficult to observe, such as disease states and recovery processes to injuries," said Olaf Sporns, co-author of the study and neuroscientist at Indiana University.
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The work by the researchers from Indiana University, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and Harvard Medical School marks a major step in understanding the most complicated and mysterious organ in the human body. It not only provides a comprehensive map of brain connections (the brain "connectome"), but also describes a novel application of a non-invasive technique that can be used by other scientists to continue mapping the trillions of neural connections in the brain at even greater resolution, which is becoming a new field of science termed "connectomics."
{{ CLICK HERE to view and image of this mapping }}
"This is one of the first steps necessary for building large-scale computational models of the human brain to help us understand processes that are difficult to observe, such as disease states and recovery processes to injuries," said Olaf Sporns, co-author of the study and neuroscientist at Indiana University.
