MONDAY, Oct. 13– A new study says that higher alcohol intake can hurt or shrink your brain.

Rajesh Miranda, who is an associate professor of neuroscience and experimental therapeutics at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, says: “Though we known about that, it’s huge study which quantifies that.”

Miranda added, “It is not surprising that higher alcohol intake lead to the brain shrinkage, as such sort of things have also been observed in many other smaller studies and animal models. However, the astonishing thing is that the current study shows that even lower levels of alcohol intake are not protective.”

Their findings will be published in the Archives of Neurology in the October issue. …Click here to read more

According to a Swedish research, marriage or having a partner may decrease the risk of developing dementia considerably. The study has been presented at a US conference.

The researchers are of the view that it is social interaction between couples that helps to avoid the disease.

The Alzheimer’s Research Trust is considering the results quite worrying as in the UK divorce rates are considerably high.
“For some people, the problem might be even greater” the Karolinska Institute’s study suggests

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A new clue to the cause of Alzheimer’s disease has been discovered by the researchers. A sticky protein known as beta-amyloid, clutter the brains of people that have memory-robbing form of dementia. But this is still a riddle whether this sticky protein is a side effect or a cause of the disease. Tangles of a protein known as tau are also involved in this procedure, some scientists considering it a cause.

Injecting rats with a specific kind of beta-amyloid, the researchers caused Alzheimer’s symptoms in them. The researchers noted that other kinds of beta-amyloid when injected to the rats, it didn’t cause illness in them. It shows that some people have beta-amyloid plaque in their brains but don’t have symptoms of the disease.

These findings were reported in online issue of the journal …Click here to read more