About 50 percent of people who reach the age of 85 will develop Alzheimer’s disease. Most will die within about five years of exhibiting the hallmark symptoms of the disease – severe memory loss and a precipitous decline in cognitive function. But the molecular processes that lead to the disease will have begun years earlier. […]
Please stop merchandising mental illness
I was seeing a guy from London, and he told me Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald were his favorite couple. He was charming, exciting and "got" me. His choice sounded so romantic, so like him. The 1986 movie “Betty Blue” turned men on to a concept of women with mental illness as impossibly chic. I lay […]
Yet Another Reason Why It’s Hard to Stop Smoking
WEDNESDAY, July 11, 2018 — Could losing their sense of identity be one reason why so many smokers find it hard to kick the habit? That’s the conclusion of new research out of Britain. “When people attempt to quit smoking, what they are really doing is attempting to bury part of their old identity and […]
‘Amazingly protective’ drug may STOP the progression of Parkinson’s
Is a cure for Parkinson’s on the horizon? Experimental drug STOPS its progress and can combat its symptoms, promising trials show Early trials on mice and in the lab showed NLY01 stopped brain cells dying Parkinson’s strikes 120,000 patients in the UK and one million in the US It gradually destroys cells in the part […]