Doctors have at most six to eight hours to stop the cascade, says UMass Memorial Medical Center neurologist Marc Fisher.

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Just because you can purchase it at a health store, it doesn't mean it's going to make you healthy, said Avitzur, neurologist and medical adviser at Consumer Reports said.

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Enter Diane Wood the mother of three adult children and three step children with her husband, a neurologist at Northwestern University Medical School.

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The study relates diet to strokes, said Dr. Nikolaos Scarmeas, a neurologist at Columbia University Medical Center and lead author of the study.

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It approached psychiatrist and neurologist Mark George at the Medical University of South Carolina, who looked at brain scans of patients.

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During his medical residency, Graham trained as a neurologist.

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Researcher Dr Robert Swingler, a consultant neurologist at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, said the study showed that over a 30 month period the drug would only prevent one MS attack in every three patients.

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"This is a watershed year" for Alzheimer's research, said Norman Relkin, a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, who isn't involved with any of these trials.

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Three years ago Columbia University psychologist Joy Hirsch and neurologist Nicholas Schiff of Cornell University's Weill Medical College teamed up to perform functional magnetic resonance imaging scans on two minimally conscious patients.

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Dr. Wendy Wright, a neurologist who has not been involved in my care, said the medical field is still evolving in treating mild traumatic brain injuries such as concussions.

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