Tag: Dementia
Brain Training Exercises May Delay Onset of Dementia, Study Says
The study, funded by the National Institute on Aging, tested brain training in 2,785 healthy adults, discovering it can delay dementia related to Alzheimer's...
Leukemia drug shows early promise for treating Parkinson’s disease and dementia
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder that causes a range of motor and non-motor symptoms. During the course of the...
Cerebrovascular disease linked to Alzheimer’s
While strokes are known to increase risk for dementia, much less is known about diseases of large and small blood vessels in the brain,...
Methylene blue shows promise for improving short-term memory: Study in humans
Delayed match-to-sample task. Repeated-measures ANOVA results of the delayed match-to-sample task (colors indicate P values of significant voxels, cluster-based P ? .05; K ?...
Human amyloid-beta acts as natural antibiotic in the brain: Alzheimer’s-associated amyloid...
β-amyloid fibrils propagate from yeast surfaces and capture Candida albicans in culture medium.Credit: D.K.V. Kumar et al. / Science Translational Medicine (2016)
A new...
Loss of Y chromosome is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease:...
Men with blood cells that do not carry the Y chromosome are at higher risk of being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and this is...
Brain insulin resistance identified as possible new link between Alzheimer’s disease,...
Several epidemiological studies support the hypothesis that diabetes increases a person's risk for developing Alzheimer's disease. However, new research from the Icahn School of...
