Inside the Brain: Unraveling the Mystery of Alzheimer's Disease [HQ]This 4-minute captioned video shows the intricate mechanisms involved in the progression of Alzheimer's disease in the brain. http://www.nia.nih.gov Permission to use ADEAR materials is not...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjgBnx1jVIU
Treating brain diseases -- overcoming the blood-brain barrier: Devin Wiley at TEDxCaltechDevin Wiley is an M.D./Ph.D. student at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Caltech Chemical Engineering. His Caltech research, under Professor Mark Davis, explores new ways of delivering...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLEPr3mz4qc
Fictional television detective Adrian Monk (on the show Monk) had one of the most severe cases of OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) you will probably ever see. On the Big Bang Theory, Sheldon also has OCD tendencies, like knocking three times in succession. Although most with OCD are not as extreme as these two, the condition can [...]
If you have ever seen a wildfire you know it is hard to stop, and fuels smaller fires from the sparks flying through the air, making it hard to control. It destroys everything in its path. This is what happens once our brains have been invaded with memory loss. The neurons (brain cells) that are [...]
Neuroscientists are shifting gears in their hunt to stop the spread of Alzheimer’s disease. They are now testing the possibility that therapies on patients who are only beginning to show signs of the disease will help them to stop the devastation before the brain is destroyed. Taking an ambitious step, an international study was just [...]
Experiments on mice have found that a drug used to treat cancer can very quickly remove build up of beta-amyloid peptides in the brain, known to cause Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s disease is believed to be associated with a build up of plaque-like substances that brings on the memory problems. The build-up is thought to underlie the [...]
