Gum has been studied for its beneficial effects on memory, alertness, anxiety reduction, appetite suppression, mood and learning.
Some people need electroconvulsive therapy, which blasts their brain with current to jar them out of the blues, risking side effects like memory loss.
Lammi-Keefe also plans to look into whether omega-3s are important in preventing memory loss and stemming the effects of Alzheimer's and other diseases related to the nervous system.
But there are tantalizing signs as the FDA prepares to review suvorexant that this drug may be fundamentally different from current sleeping pills like Ambien, Lunesta and Sonata, lacking their rare but troubling side effects, like memory loss and sleepwalking.
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Next in Terlings Park's pipeline is an antianxiety drug that may have the benefits of Valium without the accompanying drowsiness, temporary memory loss and habit-forming effects.
"My apologies, but I am not free to comment on the Wyeth release, " says Susan Resnick, an NIH researcher who studies the effects of estrogen on memory.
Potential side effects can include fits, memory loss, potentially fatal heart problems and brain damage.
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Alex Dodds is now recovering, although one of the side effects is short-term memory loss which is slowly improving.
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Those groups argue that the treatment and the potential side effects -- such as memory loss and brain damage -- are serious enough to merit a thorough review.
It may be that loneliness may affect systems in the brain dealing with cognition and memory, making lonely people more vulnerable to effects of age-related decline in neural pathways, he suggested.
However, she has suffered severe side-effects affecting her gall bladder, her kidneys and her memory.
Access to stimulating activities appeared to block the harmful effects of oligomers on the cellular mechanisms underlying learning and memory, called long-term potentiation (LTP), researchers said.
But a renegade group of doctors use it for a far broader range of ills--everything from heart disease to memory impairment--despite scant evidence it works and potentially dangerous side effects.
Its effects are mainly neurobehavioral, including poor decision-making, impaired memory, erratic behavior, use of drugs and alcohol, depression and suicide.
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