Mental Stimulation Might Cut Dementia Risk People who engage in mentally-stimulating activities over a lifetime have lower levels of a protein in the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease, a new study finds. That supports other research which sug

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By Melinda Smith Washington 07 August 2007 Deep Brain Stimulation has been used successfully on patients in advanced stages of Parkinson's disease and other neurological movement disorders such as tremors. The remarkable success of this experimental

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Researchers find no strong evidence that lifestyle changes - like diet, exercise and stimulating the brain - make a big difference in preventing cognitive decline in older people. A new study has failed to find any conclusive evidence that lifestyle

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An estimated 20 percent of the population has trouble working with numbers. That's as many as one person in five with some sort of numerical disability. The British researchers are exploring ways to stimulate the brain to improve the ability to under

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Study: Electric Brain Stimulation Alleviates Some Disorders HOUSTON Modern medicine relies mainly on drugs to cure or alleviate disorders, but for some conditions doctors apply electrical stimulation. The pacemaker, for example, helps weak hearts mai

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By Alex Villarreal Washington, DC 01 February 2008 Medical researchers in Canada say a brain stimulation procedure used to treat people with Parkinson's and other diseases could help restore the memory of dementia patients. The researchers stumbled u

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