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Jan 13, 2014 Author: Jim Schnabel https://www.dana.org/news/amyloid_Imaging_and_Beyond/ Amyloid Imaging and Beyond This article caught my attention, because I was interested in the Alzheimer's factor. How scientists are testing the brain and the amyloid beta plaques of living people. Not knowing much about amyloid beta, finding out they can be created by proteins and polyeptides that are presented naturally in the body. Even though they have come up with this way to reduce Alzheimer's, there are still other factors that can cause severe dementia because they are separating the two diseases. This article applies to Human Development based on the human brain and informing us how the brain with age can grow old.

Jan 23, 2014 Author: Dirk Hanson https://www.dana.org/News/Neuroessentialism__The__Dark_Side__of_Focus_on_Brai n_Plasticity_/ Neuroessentialism: The Dark Side of focus on the Brain Plasticity? This article applies to Human Development by talking about how the learning and memory process can be changed based on addiction. Nancy Campbell, associate professor in the science and technology studies department at Rensslear Polytechnic Institute, believes with addiction your brain constantly wants to be rewarded with dopamine. So if you reward it with the right type of medications it can be beneficial for your brain.

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Feb 6, 2014 Author: Jim Schnabel https://www.dana.org/news/study_Suggests_Autism-Prevention_Strategy/ Study Suggests Autism-Prevention Strategy This article talks about a new drug that can help during pregnancy to prevent autism. The drugs name is bumetanide. Studies show if administered right before birth it could be successful in minimizing autistic babies. It can also help with GABA receptors to help with the inhibition part of your brain. Autism isnt usually detected till about a few years into childhood but with studies from ages 3-11 years old have shown promising results with the use of bumetanide.

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Feb 12, 2014 Author: Tom Valeo https://www.dana.org/news/tweaking_Genes_to_Target_a_Form_of_Alzheimer_s/ Tweaking genes to target a form of Alzheimers

The gene ap0E4 is found in 25 percent of our population with 65-80 percent of those people having Alzheimer's disease. The apoE4 gene protein can also cause multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, traumatic brain injury, stroke, Lewy body dementia, epilepsy, diabetes. Those with it shower lower glucose levels in the brain which can cause more vulnerability for Alzheimer's. Scientists have made a structure corrector named PY-101 which so far has worked in animal models and could significantly work in humans within 2 years. The apoE2 and E3 do not show any threat to humans for getting the Alzheimer disease. This could be a huge step towards our human development for our children and our grandchildren. For the structure corrector it can also aid in the amyloid hypothesis and minimize the proteins to only a few in the brain.

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Feb 20, 2014 Author: Carl Sherman https://www.dana.org/News/The_Discovery_and_Potential_of_Nerve_Growth_Factor/ The Discovery and Potential of Nerve Growth Factor Rita Levi-Montalcini was a founding member of EDAB and died at the age of 103. Her concept was that with disease and infection there was also a cure. A shorter way to communicate with our cells. When experimenting insulin in our bloodstream with those with various cancers and disease. It led us to find ATFS an important for proliferation of (Stem cells) that give rise to the brain. So far they have only been able to tests on mammal type animals but I find this article important for Human Development because it shows the progress we are making into making cells in our body stronger, with having the disease at hand.

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Feb 25, 2014 author: Jim Schnabel https://www.dana.org/news/poverty_and_Cognition__How_the_Poor_Get_Poorer/ Poverty and Cognition: How the poor get poorer.

It is said in this article that the rich are rich and the poor are poor. Rich people marry rich people which is said to be smarter than poor people based on socioeconomics of our world. Which makes rich people to have better genes than poor people. So summarizing this article, what i found interesting was showing that stress factors increase the way you live, those raised in loud, noisy, stressful situations even if growing up with more wealth tend to decline on the poverty scale- Loud noises and stress levels weaken the brain; one of the biggest causes is poor parenting skills. Also in this article it says that how much is your brain affected from maternal stress while still in the womb. Our brains most sensitive state is when we are still in the womb. We do not know yet for sure the answers to all of these questions. We have limited resources at this time but in years times we are hoping to find more info.

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March 13, 2014 https://www.dana.org/news/the_solitary_Brain/ author: Moheb Costandi The Solitary Brain This article talks about the psychological damages of solitary confinement on a prisoners mind. How it can take away your senses of seeing, hearing, feeling anything and how it can permanently change your brain patterns in the way you process things. Most prisoners who are held in confinement long enough become chronically depressive, have a higher risk of suicide and aggression long term. It is said that the brain strongly depends on sensory stimulation and it continues throughout ones life to depend with being alone your brain is deprived from that and can cause high levels of anxiety and depression. Some agreeing that solitary confinement is not far from pure torture. Saying it is purely inhumane and claiming that we do better by our lab rats/mice than our prisoners.

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March 17, 2014 author: Jim Schnabel https://www.dana.org/news/older,_SlowerBut_Wiser_/ Older, Slower- but Wiser?

When we age several things change: alterations in our gone expression, reductions in neurons and nerve fibers. Regions of the brain like the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus shrink significantly. When we are older we are likely to perform our cognitive tasks slower. The average age for this to start happening are in the age of 4060s this is normal happening to any individual even with an absence of disease. They have discovered 2 new ways that can potentially decrease cognitive decline: first by adding more words to your vocabulary. It escalates experience growth by asking your brain for a higher demand. Also by the MMN test which theorizes when we hear the same tone over and over again we get used to that tone which doesnt trigger anything new for the brain, but by adding new tones in the way you talk and the way people talk to you adds new experience. Which therefore declines cognitive decline in elderly ages.

March 25, 2014

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https://www.dana.org/news/brain_Evolution/ author: Carl Sherman Brain Evolution In this article it talks about what initially sets us apart from other creatures. The fact that we can speak several different languages makes us the most different than other creatures. The earliest humans came to be about 2.4 million years ago. Which showed a gene to come up that was only found in humans, called the SRGAP2. It is said that this gene plays a vital role in the formation of our spines. This gene is one of the things that sets us apart from our closes relatives, the primate. This article is important to Human Development because it goes into detail about how our characteristics are different than other creatures things like our spines, to me I would have never thought of that setting us apart from others.

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April 10, 2014 https://www.dana.org/News/Protein_May_Offer_Insights_into_Regenerating_Brain_Fun ction_After_Injury/ author: Kayt Sukel Protein may offer Insights into Regenerating Brain Function after Injury.

This article goes into how well people can recover from brain injury. They are saying that recovery is remarkable and most common with damaging that can happen from having a stroke. Even with 2 people having the exact same injury they can heal in a complete different time frame and in a complete different way. REsearch from Duke University states that if we can figure out how to re-wire our brains after injury it could be what we need to help with brain injuries. We all have dendrites in our brain covered by the axon. When we have damage to our brains like from a stroke, the dendrites lose connection. So the cells are dying. After they die they start throwing out new connections and that is how brain injuries start healing.

April 16, 2014

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https://www.dana.org/News/Glycotoxicity__A_New_Risk_Factor_for_Alzheimer_s_/ author: Jim Schnabel Glycotoxicity: A new risk factor for Alzheimers?

Glycotoxins are the products of a process in the glycation: Which is the fastening of a sugar molecule to a protein or a fat molecule in a way that isnt mediated by enzymes. Scientists have tests on mice and found that with glycotoxins they have showed less memory deficients as they grew older. Also when tested on elderly humans it showed that their cognitive decline was less than those without glycotoxins in their bloodstream. Glycation can also help with disease like diabetes from the cross link of proteins in which this case of diabetes have uncontrollable blood sugar levels. The harms of glycotoxins are stiffer blood vessels which lead to higher blood pressure, which can cause strokes in the brain and eventually dementia. You can eat foods with more glutathione levels also known as sulforphane found in vegetables like: cauliflower, cabbage, kale, and broccoli.

April 22, 2014

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https://www.dana.org/News/Gene_Variants_May_Help_Predict_Recovery_from_TBI_an d_PTSD/ author: Kayt Sukel Gene Variants may help predict recovery from TBI an PTSD

From the 1 million soldiers that have served our country in the Iraqi war about 100,00 have returned and reported signs of PTSD or TBI (traumatic brain injury) or both. BDNF is a protein found in the brain and i the nervous system that can predict which people are more vulnerable to developing PTSD or TBI. This protein helps promote growth of the neurons in our brain according to David Benedek from the uniformed services University of Health Sciences. It is said this protein can help soldiers that have a higher risk to take the training they need to help prevent from any of these disorders happening to them. Also the protein has shown it can help in the way a person recovers form TBI. Clinicians and Scientists are working on joining the dots so we can help our patients in the near future, stating we have to start somewhere to make improvements.