Items Tagged ‘brain’

April 2, 2015

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

By Karl Oestreich

Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor, Carmen Zwicker   WCCO Mayo Clinic Alzheimer’s Disease Study Gives Researchers New Hope by Angela Davis It’s a disease with no cure and limited treatment, but this week the Mayo Clinic announced the findings of a major study that is giving Alzheimer’s researchers new hope. The study is published in the […]

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March 26, 2015

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

By Karl Oestreich

Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor, Carmen Zwicker   Star Tribune Mayo unravels a mystery disease for Minnesota attorney by Dan Browning Greg Widseth didn’t know what hit him. The Polk County attorney felt fine as he coached his son’s ninth-grade basketball workout last March. He remembers smiling at a young woman as he left the building. […]

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January 15, 2010

Exercise also trains the brain

By Kelley Luckstein

We know exercise has a positive effect on the body, but more and more evidence shows that regular exercise may be good for the mind too. The latest information comes by way of two studies released this week in Archives of Neurology that show the possible benefits of physical activity on cognitive function…   In […]

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Tags: brain, exercise, positive benefits


November 4, 2009

Anesthesia: Could Early Use Affect the Brain Later?

By Kelley Luckstein

General anesthesia — the enabler of modern surgery and medical intervention — is one of the great triumphs of the scientific method. Ether, the compound from which almost all modern anesthetics are derived, was discovered largely by luck and its derivatives through trial and error. As a result, however, much about these drugs remains mysterious. […]

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