Neurological disorders

This week’s scientific study

Don Surber (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

BBC News: “Coffee ‘may reverse Alzheimer’s’.”

Caffeine in Coffee May Reverse Alzheimer's

PAXALLES (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Coffee may reverse Alzheimer's from BBC News reports that a cup of Joe may not only wake one up in the morning, but may also reverse the pernicious effects of Alzheimer's. The Florida research, carried out on mice, also suggested...

Former Beatles manager Klein dies

Buzz Patrol (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Former Beatles manager Allen Klein has died today after suffering from Alzheimer’s. He was 77 year old. Klein had a reputation as a ruthless manager and tough negotiator and he was blamed by many for contributing to the downfall of the Beatles. He also worked with the Rolling Stones for five years. Klein’s funeral will take place on Tuesday [...]

• Former Beatles manager Klein dies at 77 - Digital Spy
• Rolling Stones - Music Mogul Klein Dies - Contactmusic Ltd
• See the 4 articles on the same subject

Coffee ‘could cure Alzheimer’s’

DYSPEPSIA GENERATION (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

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Weekendly clickables XII

Buildings and Food - Articles (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

My Photoblog . Click it, bookmark it, set is as your homepage, add it to your RSS reader, link to it from your blog, tweet about it , tell your friends about it, rinse, and repeat. Updated daily. (Not related: also a tumblr where I post videos that are currently striking my fancy.) ABC News’ Alzheimer’s simulator . For a mere $2000, you can get a life-sized resin replica of your head made....

Daily caffeine dose may delay progress of Alzheimer’s, researchers say

Times Online (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Three large cups of coffee a day could help to slow the progress of Alzheimer’s disease and even reverse the condition, researchers say.

Mini Miglia - Slot car version of classic race to benefit Alzheimer's research

TODAY ON ROADST3R - Car STORIES (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

Filed under: Etc. , Euro , Event Alert The Mini Mille Miglia -- Click above for image gallery This weekend saw the running of the first Mini Mille Miglia. No affiliation to the famous touring event, the Mini Mille is a greatly scaled down version of the...

Mini Miglia - Slot car version of classic race to benefit Alzheimer's research

Autoblog (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago

Filed under: Etc. , Euro , Event Alert The Mini Mille Miglia -- Click above for image gallery This weekend saw the running of the first Mini Mille Miglia. No affiliation to the famous touring event, the Mini Mille is a greatly scaled down version of the race. How scaled down? Well, it's run on a digital Scalextric track for 1/32-scale slot cars in Umbria, Italy. Put on to benefit Alzheimer's research,...

Bishop urged to repent his homophobia

Gscene News Archive (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago

In an article on the front page of today’s Sunday Telegraph. The Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali has called on gay people to “repent and be changed” . He said: "We welcome homosexuals, we don’t want to exclude people, but we want them to repent and be changed." Commenting on the Bishop’s remarks, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said: "As...

Slow Descent

Twist & Shout (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago

I know I haven't written here for quite a long time, and I know that in fact that isn't conducive to a whole load of people following what I write with intent - but then again I'd probably have to not be a whiney 18-year-old for that to be the case. My reasoning was that it had begun to feel a bit pointless blogging when I knew that my core readers were people who sort of knew what I was writing about...

SoCal Road Trip 1: Arroyo Grande

Civic Center (Free subscription) | yesterday

Stephen Kuphal, my brother-in-law, built a small cottage for his ailing mother who eventually got Alzheimer's and recently went to heaven. The place is filled with love and I started a pilgrimage to Southern California staying there for a couple of days. My sister Hilary has a mad love for the animal world and her place is overrun with happy creatures, including Norman the 15-year-old goat... ...along...

Jury Awards a Groundbreaking Verdict in Elder Abuse and Neglect Case

Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

A jury as unanimously awarded a plaintiff nearly $1.34 million for the reckless nursing home abuse and neglect that the suffered in the hands of her nursing home provided. The jury awarded $88,000 for past medical bills, $500,000 in general damages and $750,000 in punitive damages. The victim suffered from Alzheimer’s and required intense management due to her frequency of falling . However,...

Woodson Art Museum Awarded Alzheimer's Grant

Artdaily (Free subscription) | yesterday

WAUSAU, WI.- The Woodson Art Museum has received a $6,500 Helen Bader Foundation Planning Grant to develop an art-based program for Wausau and north central Wisconsin adults who have early to mid-stage Alzheimer's Disease and their families. In a prepared statement, Woodson director Kathy Kelsey Foley wrote, “We are honored to be one of only five Wisconsin museums to receive Helen Bader

police pull missing 78-year-old from lake

Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday

Authorities in Lakeland say they have located a 78-year-old Alzheimer's patient who walked away from his home and did not return.

MILK BOX~FT Worth~Responds to Rainbow Raid

planetransgender (Free subscription) | yesterday

Milk Box Hosted by: Queer LiberAction Queer LiberAction MySpace Queer LiberAction.com When: Sunday, July 05, 2009 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM CDT (End Time Estimated) Where: Sundance Square, Houston and 3rd St. FT Worth Texas Google Map In response to the raid at the Rainbow Lounge, Queer Liberaction is set to take its Milk box to Sundance Square in the heart of downtown Fort Worth this coming Sunday, July 5th...

Mind Over Body with Biofeedback

fedorazine | 07/03/2009

Biofeedback is a therapy that helps you harness your mind’s power to help improve your health. It is a type of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatment called mind-body therapy, which helps enable you to use your thoughts and will to control your body. The therapy is based on the idea (and confirmed by scientific studies), that people have the innate potential to influence with their

Types of Anxiety Disorders

medicfarma0 | 07/03/2009

Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress that helps one to cope with a stressful situation whether at work, in school, to study harder for a test or just to help us keep focused on an important speech. However, when anxiety becomes an excessive, irrational experience in everyday situations, anxiety becomes disabling. When diagnosing anxiety, it falls into one of six major types of disorders, each with...

Buy Ambien and Sleep Restfully

medicman007 | 07/02/2009

All of us at one time or another have had difficulty sleeping at night. Perhaps we were worrying about an upcoming event, or had some stress that prevented us from having a restful night’s sleep. You are not alone. It happens to us all. Generally, these sleeping issues will go away within a couple of days; however, in some cases, the sleep problems develop into full-blown sleep disorders. A sleep disorder