Anti-inflammatory drugs lower the effectiveness of antidepressants, also called as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). These drugs taken for obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorders and depression include aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen. This startling discovery, to a certain extent, explains why a number of depressed patients who take SSRIs don’t respond to antidepressants. The study by Rockefeller researchers [...] Read more…
If you feel you’ve lost out on regenerative medicine benefits by not banking your umbilical cord, rest easy. For, you could now make up for that oversight by donating your teeth to a dental stem cell bank – it could help in treating a variety of diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s in adults. It’s [...] Read more…
According to neuroscientist Ellen Bialystok, people who are fluent in two languages have healthier brains. Ellen Bialystok, an eminent research professor of psychology at York University in Toronto, Canada, says speaking 2 or more languages regularly from an early age has a positive impact on the brain. Apart from enhancing cognitive abilities, bilingualism could also [...] Read more…
Scientists at Oxford University have developed a 15-mins online test to detect early signs of Alzheimer’s in people in their 50’s. This computer-based interactive test can be taken at home and provides on the spot results, facilitating early treatment in order to keep it under control. Experts say that slowing down by 5 years the onset [...] Read more…
Research shows that the failure to perceive sarcasm or lies is an early indicator of dementia. In a study, scientists found out which areas of the human brain control an individual’s ability to identify sarcasm & lies. While a few participants were healthy, most of the subjects suffered from neurodegenerative diseases that caused deterioration in certain [...] Read more…
