April 2, 2015
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
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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January 15, 2010
Exercise also trains the brain
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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November 4, 2009
Anesthesia: Could Early Use Affect the Brain Later?
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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