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What if a drug used to treat Alzheimer's could one day put humans into a state of suspended animation, extending the critical golden hour to save lives in medical emergencies?
We're getting better and better at understanding dementia.
This wouldn't be the first time erectile dysfunction has been linked to other conditions.
A fresh look at ancient texts reveals a rare glimpse of dementia in history.
New findings indicate old childhood growth hormone treatments may be linked to early onset Alzheimer's disease
This could dramatically change our understanding of the disease.
Researchers have shown that an essential protein involved in Alzheimer’s causes cells to overheat, which may explain how the disease appears.
The Amazon people may hold the key to slow, healthy aging.
Older people who regularly solve crosswords and Sudoku have the mental abilities of those ten years their junior.
That's one job the robots can take, then.
Keep it squeaky clean, everybody!
Sometimes, we do have to suffer for our success.
Now we just need an efficient treatment.
A healthy heart also makes for a healthy brain.
Luckily it's not the only one because I already have it. Double helpings.
There are sex differences that may make women more vulnerable to Alzheimer's.
Finally, the world may soon have a vaccine against the devastating disease.
Bacteria causing gingivitis can migrate from the gums to the brain, causing Alzheimer's disease.
Spatial memory improved in mice after a special three-month diet.
Gum disease toxins enter the brain where they may cause Alzheimer's, according to new research.
The age of AI doctors is dawning upon us.
Antidiabetes medication could reduce Alzheimer's severity.
A much needed boost in the research of early-stage Alzheimer's.
The results astonishingly suggest that Alzheimer's effects on the brain could be reversed.
The findings underline the importance of good sleep for preserving brain health.
Putting his money where his mouth is: Gates invests massively into addressing Alzheimer's disease.
Dementia is a syndrome while Alzheimer's is a disease. More key differences between the two after the jump.
It's really, really good for you.
No more of that awful drilling in your teeth.
Finnish people sure love their sauna - and there could be a good reason for that.
Tiny pollution particles have been discovered in brain samples, a finding described as "dreadfully shocking" by researchers.
Recovering memories lost after Alzheimer’s can be as simple as flipping a switch – at least for mice. According to a new research, these memories aren’t lost, it’s just the retrieval of the retrieval mechanism that is impaired. Loss of long-term memory and some learned experiences is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s diseases. Despite the disease affecting millions of […]
A rare kind of aphasia, abbreviated PPA, leaves people at a loss for words. Patients blabber and stutter, seemingly unable to communicate. Often times families think their diseased relatives and loved ones have Alzheimer's. Because primary progressive aphasia is so rare and unknown, even doctors often misdiagnose the disease. Upon closer inspection though, the PPA patient clearly is able to understand questions and reason . It's just they simply can't verbally use words. At a recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, PPA has been put in the center of discussion to raise awareness but also share some of the most promising therapies.
For its annual report, the The Alzheimer’s Association in the US claims that more than half of all reported early Alzheimer's diagnoses aren't disclosed to the patient by doctors. This is a situation reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s when cancer diagnoses were rarely disclosed to patients as the disease was generally seen as incurable. Like in the case of the long-gone cancer stigma, doctors may be doing more harm than good. They don't want patients to lose hope, but being kept in the dark as to their suffering can be equally bad, if not worse.
City smog significantly lowers children's IQ, while also raising the risk for Alzheimers disease. A new study has found that children living in highly polluted cities are at an increased risk for detrimental effects to the brain, including short-term memory loss.
For a while, the general consensus was that long term memories are stored in synapses. A new UCLA research topples this paradigm after experiments made on snails suggests that synapses aren’t that crucial storing memories as previously believed, but only facilitate the transfer of information someplace else, most likely in the nucleus of the neurons themselves […]
Meditation has been shown to have an impact on brain activity, decreasing beta waves and impacting each part differently. Activity in the frontal and parietal lobe slows down, while the flow of information to the thalamus is reduced. This can lead to positive side effects such as improved focus, better memory, and a reduction in […]
This week, the Obama administration has announced plans to pursue a 10-year, $3 billion research effort aimed at mapping the human brain in “its entirety”. The project, called the Brain Activity Map, is designed to help scientists better understand how the ~100 billion neurons interact in our brains. Initially, the announcement was met with applause, […]
The fight against Alzheimer’s is a harsh and rugged one, and despite numerous advancements, there still isn’t a definitive cure for the disease around – or a fail proof way to detect it in the early stages.. Still, if you can’t defeat it, it’s still better to slow it down a little, and that’s exactly […]
