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Nicotine molecular construction. Texas A&M analysis reveals how this element of cigarettes may really be useful by itself. Credit score: © Dario Lo Presti / Fotolia Everybody is aware of that tobacco merchandise are unhealthy in your well being, and even the brand new e-cigarettes might have dangerous toxins. Nonetheless, based on analysis at Texas A&M, it seems the nicotine itself -- when given independently from tobacco -- may assist shield the mind because it ages, and even chase away Parkinson's or Alzheimer's illness. Ursula Winzer-Serhan, PhD, an affiliate professor on the Texas A&M Faculty of Drugs, and her collaborators discovered that nicotine's potential to be neuroprotective could also be partly on account of its well-known potential to suppress the urge for food. Their analysis is printed within the Open Entry  Journal of Toxicology . Utilizing animal fashions, Winzer-Serhan and her collabora...

Researchers had 66 participants (35 women, 31 men), recruited from the Brown University Center for AIDS Research, undergo a comprehensive neurocognitive battery of testing. Current heavy drinkers (n=21) were classified using National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism criteria and structured clinical interviews and, further, were compared to non-drinkers and moderate drinkers (n=45). About 53 percent of the total population had a lifetime history of alcohol dependence (AD). Neurocognitive data were grouped according to global cognitive function, attention/executive function, learning, memory, motor function, verbal function, and speed of processing. Results showed that current heavy drinking in older adults was associated with poorer global cognitive function, learning, memory, and motor function. Furthermore, a lifetime history of AD was associated with poorer function in the same neurocognitive domains, as well as the attention/executive domain, notwithstanding age. In su...