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June 6, 2024

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Altering Cellular Interactions Around Amyloid Plaques May Offer Novel Alzheimer's Treatment Strategies

May 27, 2024 — Researchers made a significant breakthrough in Alzheimer's disease research by identifying a novel way to potentially slow down or even halt disease progression. The study, which focuses on the role ...

What Factors Predict When Older Adults Will Stop Driving?

May 22, 2024 — What factors lead older adults to stop driving? A new study followed older adults who had no memory or thinking problems to examine this ...

Climbing the Social Ladder May Slow Dementia

May 21, 2024 — Researchers analyzed data from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study and found that socioeconomic status (SES) transitions affect dementia risk. Specifically, upward SES mobility is greater associated with reduced dementia risk and extended ...

The Vicious Cycle of Protein Clumping in Alzheimer's Disease and Normal Aging

May 16, 2024 — To date, approaches to treatments for Alzheimer's disease have not addressed the contribution of protein insolubility as a general phenomenon, instead focusing on one or two insoluble proteins. ...

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How Stress Knocks out Your Cognitive Reserve

June 4, 2024 — While mentally stimulating activities and life experiences can improve cognition in memory clinic patients, stress undermines this beneficial ...

Study Examines Prescribing Patterns of Drug Associated With Cognitive Impairment

May 30, 2024 — A new study is one of the first explorations of prescribing patterns of tricyclic antidepressants for treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy at ...

First Hints of Memory Problems Associated With Changes in the Brain

May 29, 2024 — People who report early memory problems and whose partners also suspect they have memory problems have higher levels of tau tangles in the brain, a biomarker associated with Alzheimer's ...

Subtle Cognitive Decline Precedes End to Driving for Older Adults

May 22, 2024 — Even slight cognitive changes can affect an older person's decision to stop driving, according to a new study. The findings suggest that routine cognitive testing -- in particular, the kind of ...

Naturally Occurring Substance in Pomegranates Can Improve Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease

May 22, 2024 — A substance naturally occurring in i.a. pomegranates, strawberries and walnuts can improve memory and treatment of Alzheimer's disease, a new study ...

New Group Training Tool for the Prevention of Dementia

May 15, 2024 — The system is already in use in retirement homes. Researchers have now tested how effective it is in a scientific ...

Imaging Technique Shows New Details of Peptide Structures

Apr. 26, 2024 — Researchers outline how they used a chemical probe to light up interlocking peptides. Their technique will help scientists differentiate synthetic peptides from toxic types found in Alzheimer's ...

Good Heart Health in Middle Age May Preserve Brain Function Among Black Women as They Age

Apr. 24, 2024 — Cognitive decline among Black women linked to poor heart health in middle ...

National Trial Safely Scaled Back Prescribing of a Powerful Antipsychotic for the Elderly

Apr. 25, 2024 — Warning letters can safely cut prescribing of a powerful but risky antipsychotic, according to a new study. Researchers used Medicare data to study ...

Cognitive Decline May Be Detected Using Network Analysis, According to Concordia Researchers

Apr. 9, 2024 — Researchers use network analysis to study whether it can reveal the subtle changes associated with subjective cognitive decline that cannot otherwise ...

Organoids Reveal How to Protect the Brain Against Dementia and ALS Following Traumatic Injury, According to Study

Apr. 4, 2024 — A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can quadruple your risk for developing dementia and increase your chances of developing neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS. In a new study scientists use lab-grown ...

Immunotherapy for Alzheimer's Disease Shows Promise in Mouse Study

Apr. 3, 2024 — Scientists have shown that treating mice with an antibody that blocks the interaction between APOE proteins (white) sprinkled within Alzheimer's disease plaques and the LILRB4 receptor on ...

Blended Antioxidant Supplement Improves Cognition and Memory in Aged Mice

Apr. 2, 2024 — Cell damage from oxidative stress is a major underlying cause of age-related cognitive and muscle strength decline. Antioxidants can reduce oxidative stress and prevent age-related health decline. A ...

Familial Alzheimer's Disease Transferred Via Bone Marrow Transplant in Mice

Mar. 28, 2024 — Familial Alzheimer's disease can be transferred via bone marrow transplant, researchers show. When the team transplanted bone marrow stem cells from mice carrying a hereditary version of ...

Risk Factors for Faster Aging in the Brain Revealed in New Study

Mar. 27, 2024 — Researchers have used data from UK Biobank participants to reveal that diabetes, traffic-related air pollution and alcohol intake are the most harmful out of 15 modifiable risk factors for ...

Memory Self-Test Via Smartphone Can Identify Early Signs of Alzheimer's Disease

Mar. 27, 2024 — Dedicated memory tests on smartphones enable the detection of 'mild cognitive impairment', a condition that may indicate Alzheimer's disease, with high ...

New Treatment Target Identified for Alzheimer's Disease

Mar. 26, 2024 — Researchers have identified a new potential target for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease -- PDE4B. The researchers observed that AD mice showed memory deficits in maze tests, but memory was ...

Immune Cells Identified as Key Players in Brain Health

Mar. 21, 2024 — Using novel genetic and genomic tools, researchers have shed light on the role of immune cells called macrophages in lipid-rich tissues like the brain, advancing our understanding of Alzheimer's ...

Rural and Minority Dementia Patients Face Disparities in Access to Neurologists

Mar. 20, 2024 — A study of nearly 95,000 Washington state residents found that people living outside of urban areas as well as Native American and Hispanic people face longer travel distances to be seen by ...

Keto Diet Prevents Early Memory Decline in Mice

Mar. 20, 2024 — A new study shows the keto diet prevents early memory decline in mice. A molecule in the diet plays a key role in slowing Alzheimer's ...

Biomarkers of the Middle-Aged Brain Predict Cognitive Health in Old Age

Mar. 19, 2024 — The middle-aged brain could provide a window into future cognitive health. A team reviewed evidence from human and animal studies suggesting that middle age -- commonly considered as the period ...

A Healthier Diet Is Linked With a Slower Pace of Aging, Reduced Dementia Risk, Study Shows

Mar. 14, 2024 — A healthier diet is associated with a reduced dementia risk and slower pace of aging, according to a new study. The findings show that a diet-dementia association was at least partially facilitated ...

Mar. 13, 2024 — U.S. veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq who suffered mild traumatic brain injury from exposure to explosive blasts were found to have changes in cerebrospinal fluid proteins that are ...

Researchers Identify Gene Involved in Neuronal Vulnerability in Alzheimer's Disease

Mar. 11, 2024 — Early stages of neurodegenerative disorders are characterized by the accumulation of proteins in discrete populations of brain cells and degeneration of these cells. For most diseases, this selective ...

Wrist Device That Monitors Activity Could Help Provide Early Warning of Alzheimer's

Mar. 11, 2024 — Monitoring daily activity patterns using a wrist-worn device may detect early warning signs of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new ...

A Noninvasive Treatment for 'Chemo Brain'

Mar. 6, 2024 — A noninvasive treatment may help to counter 'chemo brain' impairment often seen in chemotherapy patients: Exposure to light and sound with a frequency of 40 hertz protected brain cells from ...

Amyloid Blood Levels Associated With Brain Changes in Alzheimer's Study

Mar. 6, 2024 — A link between abnormal blood levels of amyloid -- a protein associated with Alzheimer's disease -- and subtle changes in brain microstructures on a type of MRI could lead to a new way to detect ...

Tiny Magnetic Particles in Air Pollution Linked to Development of Alzheimer's

Feb. 29, 2024 — Magnetite, a particle found in air pollution, can induce signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, new research ...

How Cognition Changes Before Dementia Hits

Feb. 29, 2024 — Language-processing difficulties are more of an indicator than memory loss of amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), a risk factor for dementia due to Alzheimer's disease, according to a new ...

Mutations in Hereditary Alzheimer's Disease Damage Neurons Without 'Usual Suspect' Amyloid Plaques

Feb. 29, 2024 — A study of rare gene mutations that cause hereditary Alzheimer's disease shows these mutations disrupt production of a small sticky protein called ...