Forget me not: Novel target shows promise in treating Alzheimer's and related dementias

by Matthew Greseth,Medical University of South CarolinaThe cytotoxic tau isomer (cis P-tau; red) is partially colocalized with tau oligomers (green; top) and tau tangles (green; bottom) in Alzhe

Updated on: April 29,2024

Forget me not: Novel target shows promise in treating Alzheimer's and related dementias

by Matthew Greseth,Medical University of South CarolinaThe cytotoxic tau isomer (cis P-tau; red) is partially colocalized with tau oligomers (green; top) and tau tangles (green; bottom) in Alzhe

Updated on:April 29,2024

Alzheimer's disease: Sex affects tau accumulation in the brain

by Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular ImagingSex Modulates the ApoE ε4 Effect on 18F-AV-1451 Tau PET. Credit: Paranjpe M, Liu M, Paranjpe I, et al.The strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheime

Updated on: April 10,2024

Alzheimer's disease: Sex affects tau accumulation in the brain

by Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular ImagingSex Modulates the ApoE ε4 Effect on 18F-AV-1451 Tau PET. Credit: Paranjpe M, Liu M, Paranjpe I, et al.The strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheime

Updated on:April 10,2024

How invisible presences hijack the social counting brain in Parkinson's disease

by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de LausanneCredit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainIf you had to estimate the number of people in a room, without counting them one by one, by nature you would overcount

Updated on: March 19,2024

How invisible presences hijack the social counting brain in Parkinson's disease

by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de LausanneCredit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainIf you had to estimate the number of people in a room, without counting them one by one, by nature you would overcount

Updated on:March 19,2024

Patients with Alzheimer's dementia and related disorders who also have delirium incur greater health care costs

by Brigham and Women's HospitalCredit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainAlzheimer's Dementia and Related Disorders (ADRD) affects upwards of 5 million people in the United States, with no known t

Updated on: June 07,2024

Patients with Alzheimer's dementia and related disorders who also have delirium incur greater health care costs

by Brigham and Women's HospitalCredit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainAlzheimer's Dementia and Related Disorders (ADRD) affects upwards of 5 million people in the United States, with no known t

Updated on:June 07,2024

Poor sleep among African Americans associated with diminished cognitive function

by RAND CorporationCredit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainMore fragmented sleep and longer periods of wakefulness after bedtime among a group of low-income African American adults were associated with

Updated on: June 01,2024

Poor sleep among African Americans associated with diminished cognitive function

by RAND CorporationCredit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainMore fragmented sleep and longer periods of wakefulness after bedtime among a group of low-income African American adults were associated with

Updated on:June 01,2024

Towards better management of disinhibition in frontotemporal dementia

by Marie Simon,Paris Brain InstituteReconstruction of a waiting room for the ECOCAPTURE study. Credit: FrontLab, Paris Brain InstituteDisinhibition is one of the main symptoms of the behavioral

Updated on: June 05,2024

Towards better management of disinhibition in frontotemporal dementia

by Marie Simon,Paris Brain InstituteReconstruction of a waiting room for the ECOCAPTURE study. Credit: FrontLab, Paris Brain InstituteDisinhibition is one of the main symptoms of the behavioral

Updated on:June 05,2024

Electrical stimulation on wrist can sway hand choice and possibly aid rehabilitation

byWaseda UniversitySomatosensory electrical stimulation settings. Anodal electrodes with a 3-cm diameter are attached to the ventral distal end of the forearm on each side, while the cathodal el

Updated on: January 18,2025

Electrical stimulation on wrist can sway hand choice and possibly aid rehabilitation

byWaseda UniversitySomatosensory electrical stimulation settings. Anodal electrodes with a 3-cm diameter are attached to the ventral distal end of the forearm on each side, while the cathodal el

Updated on:January 18,2025

Gut could sound early warning alarm for motor neuron disease

by University of AberdeenCredit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainThe same proteins thought to contribute to motor neuron disease can be found in the gut many years before any brain symptoms occur, a new

Updated on: February 03,2024

Gut could sound early warning alarm for motor neuron disease

by University of AberdeenCredit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainThe same proteins thought to contribute to motor neuron disease can be found in the gut many years before any brain symptoms occur, a new

Updated on:February 03,2024

Alzheimer's and an unusual molecular chaperone

by University of KonstanzPET scan of a human brain with Alzheimer's disease. Credit: public domainAmong the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease are the Alzheimer fibrils, deposits of the tau

Updated on: April 20,2024

Alzheimer's and an unusual molecular chaperone

by University of KonstanzPET scan of a human brain with Alzheimer's disease. Credit: public domainAmong the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease are the Alzheimer fibrils, deposits of the tau

Updated on:April 20,2024

Education may be protective for people with gene for familial early onset Alzheimer's

by American Academy of NeurologyCredit: CC0 Public DomainEven for people who carry the gene for early onset Alzheimer's disease, more years of education may slow the development of beta-amylo

Updated on: June 24,2024

Education may be protective for people with gene for familial early onset Alzheimer's

by American Academy of NeurologyCredit: CC0 Public DomainEven for people who carry the gene for early onset Alzheimer's disease, more years of education may slow the development of beta-amylo

Updated on:June 24,2024

On Nutrition: Food for thoughts

by Barbara IntermillCredit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainI forgot that June was Brain Health Awareness Month. And then I stumbled over several interesting research articles that say it's never to lat

Updated on: April 01,2024

On Nutrition: Food for thoughts

by Barbara IntermillCredit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainI forgot that June was Brain Health Awareness Month. And then I stumbled over several interesting research articles that say it's never to lat

Updated on:April 01,2024

Does the Mediterranean diet really decrease your risk of dementia?

by American Academy of NeurologyCredit: CC0 Public DomainA number of studies have suggested that eating a healthy diet may reduce a person's risk of dementia, but a new study has found that t

Updated on: May 22,2024

Does the Mediterranean diet really decrease your risk of dementia?

by American Academy of NeurologyCredit: CC0 Public DomainA number of studies have suggested that eating a healthy diet may reduce a person's risk of dementia, but a new study has found that t

Updated on:May 22,2024