That's good news for brain health because high blood sugar levels often result in a temporary condition called brain fog and long term effects
include brain degeneration.
Not exact matches
The silver lining, says Richard Salmon, a retired neurologist who wrote an editorial accompanying the research, is that recent research shows that the vCJD prion behaves much like the pathological proteins behind a number of other diseases involving
brain degeneration,
including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
Mitochondrial diseases
include Leigh syndrome, a progressive and fatal disorder characterized by lesions on the
brain that may lead to heart, kidney, vision and breathing complications, and Alpers Disease, a neurologic illness that causes seizures, dementia, spasticity, blindness, liver dysfunction and cerebral
degeneration.
Improvements on this scale happened in all the animals,
including mice with a version of human Alzheimer's disease, elderly rats and monkeys with natural
degeneration, plus rats and monkeys given
brain lesions similar to those seen in Alzheimer's.
There are a number of reasons why the trials may have failed, Hardy says,
including the possibility that the antibody did not have high enough affinity for the particular forms of amyloid that do the most damage in the
brain, or that the patients in the trials had already experienced too much
brain degeneration to benefit.
In fact, so much of the progress that we're making in laboratories,
including mine, is on developing neuroprotective therapies that can protect the retina from
degeneration, regenerate optic nerve fibers all the way back to their targets in the
brain, and even replace damaged retinal ganglion cells with self - therapies that completely rebuild the optic nerve.
Corticobasal
degeneration is a progressive neurological disorder characterized by nerve cell loss and atrophy (shrinkage) of various regions of the
brain,
including the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia (which helps to start and control movements, as well as other functions).
BrightFocus Foundation is a nonprofit organization supporting research and providing public education to help eradicate
brain and eye diseases,
including Alzheimer's disease, macular
degeneration, and glaucoma.
However, these other areas of the
brain may not fire adequately into the basal ganglia due to various reasons,
including imbalanced
brain development in childhood,
brain injury,
brain inflammation,
brain degeneration, or other glitches in
brain circuitry.
They can
include not only a genetic predisposition, but also food sensitivities (gluten and dairy being the most common offenders), environmental chemicals (such as those found in plastics), leaky gut, viral or bacterial infections,
brain injury or
degeneration, and, when a woman's immune system is already likely at the tipping point, pregnancy.