Dementia affects millions of Americans—including nearly one in 10 adults over age 65. While the causes of different dementias vary, a 2020 report from a Lancet commission identified several modifiable risk factors that ...
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The neuroprotectant ApTOLL, a medication that may shield the brain from tissue damage, was linked to reduced death and disability among people being treated for stroke when used with standard treatments to restore blood flow, ...
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How the human brain adapts to external stimulation—an important mechanism for species survival—has been made clearer by University of Queensland (UQ) research.
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Vascular dementia is a general term describing problems with reasoning, planning, judgment, memory and other thought processes caused by brain damage from impaired blood flow to your brain.
Feb 2, 2023
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Researchers may have found an unlikely contributor to the development of Alzheimer's disease: the bacteria in your gut. Their study, published in the journal Science, suggested that certain gut bacteria increase the brain ...
Jan 25, 2023
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Understanding the neural interface within the brain is critical to understanding aging, learning, disease progression and more. Existing methods for studying neurons in animal brains to better understand human brains, however, ...
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Influential English guitarist Jeff Beck, who rose to fame playing with the Yardbirds and later fronted the Jeff Beck Group, died on January 10 aged 78 after contracting bacterial meningitis.
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Although the pathology of the respiratory system is the main impact of COVID-19, many patients also manifest important neurological symptoms, such as loss of smell (anosmia), headaches, malaise, cognitive loss, epilepsy, ...
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Amyloid plaques—protein clumps that are one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease—occur at roughly the same level in the brains of people with Down syndrome who have Alzheimer's as they do in people with forms of hereditary, ...
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Gene therapies can treat, even potentially cure, certain genetic diseases, but it is challenging to deliver the treatments to the parts of the body where they are needed. Researchers have engineered viruses called adeno-associated ...
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