Strich was researching the relationship between dementia and head trauma and asserted in 1956 that DAI played an integral role in the eventual development of dementia due to head trauma.

Before I crack into my rant, which I'm sure you're waiting for ...

In wood, the vascular cambium is the obvious line separating the bark and wood.

Right ventricular angiography Right ventricular angiography is considered the gold standard for the diagnosis of ARVD.

Dementia scares us. The confused faces and shaky hands of people who have dementia, the big numbers of people who get it, they frighten us.

For the cardiac drug BiDil (a combination of the vasodilators hydralazine and isosorbide dinitrate), the answer is yes.

More than 40 other epigenetic drugs are being developed, not only for cancer, but also for obesity and even dementia.

Risk of poor memory is increased in middle aged men and women if the parents had suffered from dementia.

Every episode of the series featured a different organ or system within the human body (like the brain, the heart, the circulatory system, etc.).

Sodium selenate is an exciting lead in AD and other forms of dementia and is the focus of more intense research.

Lateral meristems In many vascular plants, secondary growth is the result of the activity of the two lateral meristems, the cork cambium and vascular cambium.

With these words, posted online, Gillian Bennett, an 85 year old New Zealander living in Canada, began her explanation of her decision to end her life. Bennett had known for three years that she was suffering from dementia.

Bleuler realized that the illness was not a dementia, as some of his patients improved rather than deteriorated, and thus proposed the term schizophrenia instead.

A description of a cerebral disorder in relation to organic factors and in the context of general paralysis of the insane only with no reference to schizophrenia,shows a disorder with features of generalized dementia (Lishman 1998).

Xylem cells are specialised for conduction of water, and first appeared in plants during their transition to land in the Silurian period more than 425 million years ago (see Cooksonia ).

My dad's not alone. There's about 35 million people globally living with some kind of dementia, and by 2030 they're expecting that to double to 70 million.

In 1991, among the first places of leading causes of death and lost years due to disability were the diseases of cardiovascular system (50 ), such as hypertension and coronary isocheimal diseases.

Egas Moniz, a Portuguese physician who developed the cerebral angiography and leucotomy, received in 1949 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine he is the first Portuguese recipient of a Nobel Prize and the only in the sciences.

The condition may also be associated with blood vessel inflammation (called vasculitis) in other areas of the body that can cause major organ damage in 15 of those afflicted or, in a small number of cases, even death.

So closely tied was the role of wine and medicine, that the first printed book on wine was written in the 14th century by a physician, Arnaldus de Villa Nova, with lengthy essays on wine's suitability for treatment of a variety of medical ailments such dementia and sinus problems.