Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Hidden belly fat in midlife linked to Alzheimer's disease

Higher amounts of visceral abdominal fat in midlife are linked to the development of Alzheimer's disease, according to research being presented next week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America ...

Neuroscience

Smaller hippocampus linked to cognitive decline

With the rise of new drugs that can target the amyloid-beta plaques in the brain that are an early sign of Alzheimer's disease, new ways are needed to determine whether memory loss and thinking problems are due to Alzheimer's ...

Medical research

New molecule to fight against transthyretin amyloidosis

Researchers from IBB-UAB have developed a second-generation molecule that significantly improves the stabilization and inhibition of the aggregation of proteins involved in Transthyretin Amyloidosis (ATTR), a group of minority ...

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