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Changes in White Matter May Predict Dementia Risk by Bob DeMarco Patient Expert

Posted Wed 22 Jul 2009 11:22pm Room Changes in White Matter May Predict Dementia Risk Research at Oregon Health & Science University supports the previously held notion that an increased rate of white... Neurology. "Changes in brain white matter are frequently detected in MRI images as a person ages,” said Lisa Silbert, M.D., M.C.R., an assistant professor of neurology in the OHSU Read on »

White Matter Changes May Predict ... by Dr. Rubens D. Medical Doctor

Posted Wed 15 Jul 2009 6:03pm White Matter Changes May Predict Cognition Issues Progression in white matter hypersensitivity may better predict cognitive impairment 15 july 2009 -- The progression of white matter hypersensitivity is a better predictor of persistent cognitive impairment than baseline white matter hypersensitivity volume, according to a study published Read on »

White Matter Lesions in the Brain of Celiacs by Toni Kaste Posted Tue 22 Mar 2011 12:00am Our 1977 Fun Machine White matter lesions and muscle weakness can occur with Celiac Disease for Father Tom! http://www.celiac.com/articles/112/1/Brain-White-Matter-Lesions-are-Common-in-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/108/2/e21 Muscle hypotonia defined here http Read on »

White Matter Changes Could Predict Dementia Risk by Susan Berg Posted Fri 07 Aug 2009 7:15pm precursor to Alzheimer's disease or another type of dementia. The study found that those who had theread more of White Matter Changes Could Predict Dementia Risk Read on »

The brain after cocaine – White matter damage and addiction treatment by Adi Jaffe

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Posted Wed 23 Jun 2010 9:00am bodies of neurons (known as gray matter) and the tracts of axons that transmit messages across the brain (known as white matter). There are other parts as well, but those are the two important ones to know for this article. Gray matter is important because brain transmission isn’t possible without a cell body, which is its operations center. But white Read on »

Multiple Sclerosis Myelin Related: Saving the brain's white matter with mutated mice by stuart Patient Expert

Posted Tue 17 Aug 2010 12:00am Vanishing White Matter (VWM) disease is a devastating condition that involves the destruction of brain myelin due to a mutation in a central factor. To understand... cells to introduce the mutation. The brain is made up of two components: grey matter, or nerves, and white matter, or glial cells which support the nerves and produce myelin Read on »

Dementia Diagnosis by Brain MRI Scan – Changes in the White Matter by Dave W Healthy Living Professional

Posted Wed 23 Jun 2010 7:39am Scientists demonstrate that specific changes in the so-called “white matter” in the deep parts of the brain are linked to a significantly higher risk of succumbing... on the connectivity of many regions of the brain – affecting for example the ability to judge the cost/benefit relation of an offer and to make appropriate decisions. White brain matter Read on »

BRAIN LESIONS, WHITE MATTER by Joanne60 Posted Sat 04 Sep 2010 1:33am patients for Lyme disease and not one had Lyme! MS is NOT LYME!” Now there’s an all or nothing black and white determination based on one poorly designed study. What he never saw... with white matter lesions that are similar to what is seen in Lyme patients diagnosed with MS. The blood brain barrier that normally protects the brain from most pathogens, can Read on »

White Matter Differences in Autistic Brains by Ginger T. Patient Expert

Posted Fri 12 Sep 2008 11:30am . The scientists used DTI — which tracks the movement of water through brain tissue — to measure the structural integrity of the white matter that acts as cables to wire the parts of the brain together. Normally, water molecules move, or diffuse, in a direction parallel to the orientation of the nerve fibers of the white matter. They're aided by the coherent Read on »

Regional white matter atrophy-based classification of multiple sclerosis in cross-sectional and longitudinal data by stuart Patient Expert

Posted Tue 17 Nov 2009 10:20pm . The authors aimed to investigate whether the volume in two different regions of white matter of the brain could be used to differentiate amongst different MS subtypes. Based on the results, the authors created an algorithm to classify people with different types of MS, based on the different volumes of white matter regions of the brain, since people Read on »