What about sleep? In slow-wave deep sleep, our glial cells rinse cerebral spinal fluid throughout our brains, 关于睡眠呢?在慢波深度睡眠时,我们的神经胶质细胞冲洗着我们大脑中的脑脊液, clearing away metabolic wast

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

Let's imagine that your amyloid plaques have reached that tipping point. 假设你的淀粉样斑块已经达到临界点。 Your scale arm has crashed to the floor. 你天平的一端已坠地。 You've tripped the cascade, setting fire to the fores

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How can this be? We think it's because these nuns had a high level of cognitive reserve, 这是怎么回事呢?我们认为这是因为这些修女拥有高级的认知储备, which is a way of saying that they had more functional synapses. 意味着

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台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: Alzheimer's disease was discovered more than a century ago, and yet still it is not well understood. 阿茨海默症早在一个世纪前就被发现了,但是直到今天,它还未被完全了

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Its like the molecular version of the Joker and the Riddler teaming up against Batman. Scientists at Yale University have discovered that amyloid beta, a

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Obama is spending part of his election day on the radio. As NPR's Scott Horsley reports, he's urging Democrats to get to the polls in an effort to stem big losses. President Obama taped a seri

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President Obama is set to give an official welcome to open an nuclear summit in Washington. The focus of the gathering: to get participating nations to secure enriched uranium and plutonium stockpiles, to keep the potential bomb-making material out o

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Health Hackers: Alzheimers Patients Help Themselves 健康黑客:阿尔茨海默氏症患者自救 From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. A group of friends from around the world have gathered because they all have something

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From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. November is Alzheimers Awareness Month in the United States. Alzheimers is a frightening disease. It is frightening not only for those who suffer from memory loss, but also for their loved ones. B

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Science and Technolgy 科技 Diagnosing dementia 痴呆症的诊断 Advance warning 病情恶化预警 How to detect Alzheimer's before symptoms appear-if you are a woman 作为一名女性,如何在症状出现前诊断阿尔茨海默氏症 ALZHEI

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JEFFREY BROWN:And now the first in an occasional series of stories about long-term care. With baby boomers aging and living longer, more people will need it. But new research has shown most Americans have done little or nothing to plan for these situ

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Alzheimer's disease remains among the most devastating diseases that medicine has yet to crack. There's no known cure or treatment that has substantially helped curb memory loss and the decline in cognitive skills. One in eight America

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now for another in our Thanksgiving week food series: a profile of food writer and cook book author Paula Wolfert, as she calls on her culinary skills to battle back against Alzheimer's. Paula Wolfert has the hands of someone who's bee

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14 科技新闻摘要(三) DATE=5-1-01 TITLE=SCIENCE IN THE NEWS #2122 - Digest BYLINE=Staff VOICE ONE: This is Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And this is Sarah Long with Science in the News, a VOA Speci

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A new imaging agent that homes in on the gummy plaques and tangles that jam up the brains of Alzheimer patients has allowed doctors to see the disease in a living person for the first time,researchers said Wednesday.The mind-robbing disease,w

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Has the person become agitated, aggressive, irritable, or temperamental? the questionnaire asks. Does she/he have unrealistic beliefs about her/his power, wealth or skills? 人有变得焦躁不安、具攻击性、易怒、情绪起伏不定吗?这份

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How many people here would like to live to be at least 80 years old? Yeah. 在座有多少人希望能活到八十岁以上?好。 I think we all have this hopeful expectation of living into old age. 我想我们每个人都渴望能够长寿。 Le

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Let's begin by looking at what we currently understand about the neuroscience of Alzheimer's. 让我们先看看目前神经学上对老年痴呆的了解。 Here's a picture of two neurons connecting. 这是一张两个神经元连接的图。 The p

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Science and technology 科学技术 Embryonic stem cells 胚胎干细胞 Looking up 进展中的干细胞研究 Stem-cell research is now bearing fruit 干细胞研究开始结出硕果 FOURTEEN years ago James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin

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I'd like to talk about my dad. My dad has Alzheimer's disease. He started showing the symptoms about 12 years ago, and he was officially diagnosed in 2005. Now he's really pretty sick. He needs help eating, he needs help getting dressed, he doesn't r

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