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The actor's family confirmed Wednesday that Jane, a retired school counselor, had died at the age of 84.

Paddy McGuinness and his ex wife Christine are reportedly struggling to sell their £6.5million Cheshire mansion.

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New evidence of Iranian campaign points to close coordination with Tehran's closest ally in the Western hemisphere: Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.

This hotel restaurant in Heybridge, Essex, has been named among the UK's best to visit, according to OpenTable and KAYAK.

There are several Essex RSPCA branches in the county, along with the affiliated Danaher Animal Home, all with pets looking for homes.

A SEND charity in Braintree has said it is “so proud” of its impact in the community in its first year at its new premises in Great Notley.

MID Essex's best and worst rated doctor’s surgeries – as decided by patients – have been revealed in the annual survey.

This hotel restaurant in Heybridge, Essex, has been named among the UK's best to visit, according to OpenTable and KAYAK.

There are several Essex RSPCA branches in the county, along with the affiliated Danaher Animal Home, all with pets looking for homes.

MID Essex's best and worst rated doctor’s surgeries – as decided by patients – have been revealed in the annual survey.

Developer is also planning on a food store and a community centre

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Scientist: People withAlzheimer's disease have lower levels of lithium in their brains, and giving lithium to mice with symptoms of the condition reverses cognitive decline. Together, the findings suggest that lithium deficiency could be a driver of Alzheimer's disease and that low-dose lithium medications could help treat it. [...] [Bruce Yanknerat Harvard University] and his colleagues analyzed levels of 27 metals in the brains of 285 people after they died, 94 of whom were diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and 58 of whom had mild cognitive impairment, a precursor of the condition. The other participants showed no signs of cognitive decline at the time of their death. Lithium levels in the prefrontal cortex -- a brain region crucial for memory and decision-making -- were about 36 percent lower, on average, in people with Alzheimer's disease than in those without any cognitive decline. For those with mild cognitive impairment, lithium levels were about 23 percent lower. "We suspect that's due to a number of environmental factors: dietary intake, genetics and so forth," says Yankner. Yet there seemed to be another reason, too. In those with Alzheimer's disease, clumps of proteins called amyloid plaques contained nearly three times the amount of lithium as plaque-free regions of their brain. "Lithium becomes sequestered in these plaques," says Yankner. "We have two things going on. There is impaired uptake of lithium [in the brain] very early on and then, as the disease progresses, the lithium that is in the brain is further diminished by being bound to amyloid." To understand how this influences cognition, the team genetically engineered 22 mice to develop Alzheimer's-like symptoms and reduced their lithium intake by 92 percent. After about eight months, the animals performed significantly worse on multiple memory tests compared with 16 mice on a standard diet. It took lithium-deficient mice around 10 seconds longer to find a hidden platform in a water maze, for example, even after six days of training. Their brains also contained nearly two and a half times as many amyloid plaques. Genetic analysis of brain cells from the lithium-deficient mice showed increased activity in genes related to neurodegeneration and Alzheimer's. They also had more brain inflammation and their immune cells were less able to clear away amyloid plaques, changes also seen in people with Alzheimer's disease. The team then screened different lithium compounds for their ability to bind to amyloid and found that lithium orotate -- a naturally occurring compound in the body formed by combining lithium with orotic acid -- appeared to be the least likely to get trapped within plaques. Nine months of treatment with this compound significantly reduced plaques in mice with Alzheimer's-like symptoms, and they also performed as well on memory tests as normal mice. These results suggest lithium orotate could be a promising treatment for Alzheimer's. The findings have been published in the journal Nature.

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