Dakim Hires Kluge Strategic To Manage All Online Efforts.
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Dakim, Inc. announced today that it has hired Kluge Strategic, Inc. of Burbank, CA, to develop and manage all online marketing efforts for the Dakim(R) BrainFitness(TM) system, the leading brain training platform to help seniors combat dementia and memory loss. ...

Emeritus Elects New Board Member.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-18 November 2008-Emeritus Elects New Board Member(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Emeritus, a national provider of assisted living and Alzheimer's and related dementia care services to senior citizens, announced the appointment of Richard Macedonia to its Board of Directors. Richard Macedonia is...

Move it or lose it.
Exercise can boost your brain power, even if your memory is starting to fade. Researchers enrolled 170 men and women aged 50 or older who answered "yes" when asked "Do you have any difficulty with your memory?" (None of them had dementia.) Half were given...

Alseres Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces $1 Million Financing.
HOPKINTON, Mass., Nov. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alseres Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , today announced that it has entered into a securities purchase agreement with Robert Gipson for the private placement of 543,478 shares of common stock of the Company, together with warrants to purchase 543,478 additional shares of common stock at...

Midlife smoking increases Alzheimer's risk in apo E4 carriers.
CHICAGO--Smoking in midlife might increase the chance of Alzheimer's in later life among those who already carry an increased genetic risk. A population-based Finnish study with more than 20 years of follow-up concluded that carriers of the apolipoprotein E4 allele who smoked in midlife were seven times...

Accera Will Launch Axona, New Approach to Managing Alzheimer's Disease, in 2009.
BROOMFIELD, Colo., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Accera, Inc., a biotechnology company delivering breakthrough therapies in central nervous system (CNS) diseases, will launch Axona(TM) in the United States for Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the first quarter of 2009. The commercial launch of Axona will be funded by the company's recent...

SarahCare(R) and Posit Science Corporation(R) Join Forces to Bring Brain Fitness to Seniors at SarahCare(R) Adult Day Centers.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- SarahCare(R) announced today that it is pleased to offer the Posit Science(R) Brain Fitness Program Classic(TM) to seniors in its adult day care centers across the country. SarahCare decided to offer the Posit Science program because of extensive scientific validation of the program...

Part 4: age-related and pathological changes in memory functions/ Teil 4: altersbedingte und pathologische Veranderungen der Gedachtnisfunktionen/ Quatrieme partie: alterations pathologiques et liees a l'age, des fonctions de la memoire.
Summary In the first three parts the individual types of memory and their functions were presented based on the multi-memory model. This fourth part relates to alterations in memory and its capabilities during the normal span of life. Memory functions also age, analogue to all other systems...

Lou Ruvo Brain Institute Honors Harrah's Executive Marybel Batjer.
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lou Ruvo Brain Institute (LRBI) honored Marybel Batjer, vice president of public policy and communications for Harrah's Entertainment, Inc., during the "New Thinking About Thinking" celebration last week at Wynn Las Vegas. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070718/HARRAHSLOGO) The exclusive "New Thinking...

Brain food.
In a recent issue of the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience, UCLA professor of neurosurgery and physiological science Fernando Gomez-Pinilla summarized the latest findings concerning the effects of various foods on the brain, noting that some foods have a drug-like effect. * [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In an...