A team of Investigators from the NYU Langone Medical Center stated that their study findings indicate that individuals having a family history of Alzheimer’s disease mostly possess clump-like formations of toxic-natured protein accruement in their brains even despite being in normal health. Study investigators stated that their findings could pave way to novel means of identifying individuals at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease early on when some steps could be taken towards tackling it. Researchers are hopeful that this study outcome could imminently be of great help in lucidly diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease prior to the condition turning symptomatic and when the brain is still in good health and therapies could have the most optimal outcomes. The group of scientists are intent on continually following the entrants of this latest study for observing if they would be developing dementia and would like to duplicate the outcomes in a more large-scaled trial. Numerous  [...]

Tourette’s syndrome is a perplexing disorder causing peculiar tics, abrupt jerkiness and bizarre vocalizations. Frequently, tics ailments and tic-associated obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) happen collectively and mostly assuage or even subside in early adulthood. However, lamentably at times elevated dosages of SSRI antidepressants (for instance, Prozac) would be needed for deriving a favourable response. Furthermore, sometimes augmenting the SSRI with another medicine is required. The outcomes of a latest study showed that several of the obsessive compulsive disorder cases in remission continued their intake of an SSRI antidepressant medicine. The ideal treatment in case of early inset, tic-associated O.C.D is generally a merger of medicines and cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), mostly a definite method known as exposure and response deterrence. During a remedial session of exposure and response deterrence, the patient and the analyst start off with a reciprocally decided  [...]

Pituitary Gigantism is an atypical type of gigantism developing due to excessive production of pituitary growth hormone, generally the outcome of a pituitary adenoma. This hyper secretion of growth hormone or GH happens prior to epiphyseal growth plates in an infant could fuse or in adolescence. There is disproportionate growth and excessive height due to unremitting overactive behaviour of the pituitary gland that is situated at the base of the brain. In this scenario there is high serum GH and IGF-1 levels leading to quick, unwarranted linear development and in case not checked could lead to towering adult height. Contrastingly, excessive levels of Growth hormone that commence during adulthood following total closure of epiphyseal plates have no outcome on the build and known as acromegaly. Though several chronological assertions of gigantism have been overstated, actual pituitary giants having statures nearly eight feet, eleven inches have been acknowledged in medical narratives. Pituitary  [...]