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Alzheimer’s Reversal Breakthrough?

Scientists discover way to reverse age-related memory loss | Feb 18, 2020 | Albany,  NY, WRGB — Scientists at Albany Medical College have discovered a breakthrough that could one day help patients battling Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. In the study, published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine on Feb. 5th, the team of immunologists and neuroscientists found that targeting a specific immune cell, known as “group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s), in the brain...

Pot Smokers ‘Remember’ Things That Never Even Happened

Cannabis use consistently leads to increase in susceptibility to false memories, study says  Feb 11, 2020 Medical Xpress – An international research team has found evidence showing that the use of cannabis consistently leads to an increase in susceptibility to false memories. Prior research has shown that smoking cannabis can lead to memory loss or distortion. In this new effort, researchers wanted to know if THC, the active ingredient in cannabis, can also lead to an increase in susceptibility...

Super Bowl Champ Dies Of Dementia Day After Big Game

"Pound for pound, Willie was the best tackler in the game." – Vince Lombardi Made game-turning play in Super Bowl against Chiefs |  Feb. 3, 2020 New York Times – A Hall of Famer who was a key figure in Vince Lombardi’s dynasty and played on five championship teams in the 1960s has died. Willie Wood, who was overlooked in the N.F.L. draft but forged a Hall of Fame career as one of pro football’s greatest defensive backs, playing...

Revolting Find Brings Relief For Man’s 10-Year Headache

Jan 24, 2020 AUSTIN (KXAN) — An Austin man knew something was wrong when he fainted in the middle of a soccer game last year. He’d been dealing with awful headaches and “feeling off” but his tumble during soccer prompted him to check it out. An MRI revealed the concerning surprise culprit — a tapeworm in his brain. He was shocked, naturally. Surgery was the next step and Dr. Jordan Amadio, neurosurgeon at Ascension Seton, said the man’s case...

Foods That Cause Mental Disorders

Jan 24, 2020 Psychology Today – If there’s one concept health researchers have come to agree on it’s this: What you eat matters. Although they don’t always agree on what constitutes a healthy diet, medical experts have long understood that while certain foods can help to improve your physical well-being, others have the opposite effect. Now, a new collection of evidence clearly demonstrates that what you eat also affects your mental health. A review article published last month...

Mentally Ill Aliens Jam Border Even After 57,000 Sent Back

“I’ve seen mental health declining rapidly, especially with people being denied asylum.”  | Mental health crisis grows in border camps filled with hopeless, depressed migrants Texas Public Radio – Hundreds of red, blue and orange tents are scattered around the Gateway International Bridge that connects Brownsville, Texas, to Matamoros, Mexico, where more than 2,000 asylum seekers live. Children with their families have endured heat, cold and inclement weather for months. Such conditions are grinding down migrants' mental...

Leading Cooking Oil May Cause Alzheimer’s

"If there's one message I want people to take away, it's this: reduce your consumption of soybean oil."  | By University of California - Riverside – New UC Riverside research shows soybean oil not only leads to obesity and diabetes, but could also affect neurological conditions like autism, Alzheimer's disease, anxiety, and depression. Used for fast food frying, added to packaged foods, and fed to livestock, soybean oil is by far the most widely produced and...

Now Climate Change Causes Clinical Depression, Apparently

Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines – BP CEO Bob Dudley admitted that concern over climate change has caused his daughter’s friends to start taking antidepressants. Dudley, who will step down from his position with the oil company in February, said he hates seeing “young people so unhappy, so anxious,” and blamed these mental health issues on global warming. And as someone who works for the oil industry, Dudley said he recognizes it’s been hard on his daughter. She...
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