November 4, 2014
 
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Sweet! A Special Cocoa Drink May Reverse Memory Loss

A special type of concentrated cocoa drink seems to turn back the clock on memory, changing the brain and helping middle-aged people ace memory tests, researchers reported on Sunday.


Plant compounds called flavanols seem to be what does the trick, the team at Columbia University Medical Center report in the journal Nature Neuroscience.


"If a participant had the memory of a typical 60-year-old at the beginning of the study, after three months that person on average had the memory of a typical 30- or 40-year-old," said Dr. Scott Small, who led the study.


It wasn't hot cocoa that they drank, he cautions, but a proprietary drink made by Mars, Inc., which has also demonstrated that its flavanol-rich compounds can improve heart health. 

It is not yet available on the market.


Small's team tested 37 healthy volunteers aged 50 to 69, who either drank a high-flavanol diet (900 mg of flavanols a day) or a low-flavanol diet (10 mg of flavanols a day) for three months.

Everyone got functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans and also memory tests at the beginning and after the three months.


"When we imaged our research subjects' brains, we found noticeable improvements in the function of the dentate gyrus in those who consumed the high-cocoa-flavanol drink," said Adam Brickman, an associate professor of neuropsychology who worked on the study.


"High cocoa flavanols cause an improvement in the area of the brain that's affected by aging," Small said.

 

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Google[x] Reveals Nano Pill To Seek Out Cancerous Cells


Detecting cancer could be as easy as popping a pill in the near future. Google's head of life sciences, Andrew Conrad, took to the stage at the Wall Street Journal Digital conference to reveal that the tech giant's secretive Google[x] lab has been working on a wearable device that couples with nanotechnology to detect disease within the body.

 

"We're passionate about switching from reactive to proactive and we're trying to provide the tools that make that feasible," explained Conrad. This is a third project in a series of health initiatives for Google[x]. The team has already developed a smart contact lens that detects glucose levels for diabetics and utensils that help manage hand tremors in Parkinson's patients.
 

The plan is to test whether tiny particles coated "magnetized" with antibodies can catch disease in its nascent stages. The tiny particles are essentially programmed to spread throughout the body via pill and then latch on to the abnormal cells. The wearable device then "calls" the nanoparticles back to ask them what's going on with the body and to find out if the person who swallowed the pill has cancer or other diseases.


"Think of it as sort of like a mini self-driving car," Conrad simplified with a clear reference to Google[x]'s vehicular project. "We can make it park where we want it to." Conrad went on with the car theme, saying the body is more important than a car and comparing our present healthcare system as something that basically only tries to change our oil after we've broken down. "We wouldn't do that with a car," he added.


Bikanta's tiny diamonds luminesce cells in the body.

Similar to Y Combinator-backed Bikanta, the cells can also fluoresce with certain materials within the nanoparticles, helping cancer cells to show up on an MRI scan much earlier than has been possible before.


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Diet Stops Seizures When Epilepsy Drugs Fail

When Jackson Small began having seizures at 7, his parents hoped and assumed at least one of the many epilepsy drugs on the market would be enough to get things under control. But one seizure quickly spiraled to as many as 30 a day.

 

"He would stop in his tracks and not be aware of what was going on for 20 or 30 seconds or so," his mother Shana Small told CBS News. Jackson was eventually diagnosed with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, a type of epilepsy characterized by brief but often frequent muscle jerking or twitching.

 

But a number of medications typically prescribed to patients with this type of epilepsy were not effective. And so the quest to help Jackson gain control over his seizures led the family from their home in Orlando, Florida, to the office of a registered dietician at the NYU Langone Comprehensive 

Epilepsy Center in New York City.

 

They were there to discuss the medical benefits of heavy cream, mayonnaise, eggs, sausage, bacon and butter.

 

A lot of butter.

 

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