Studies have shown that exercise helps protect brain cells. A new study looking at the mechanisms involved in this relationship suggests that the role exercise plays in maintaining insulin and body mass index levels may help ...
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If the blood supply to your brain decreases, it can trigger Alzheimer's disease. Scientists at UiO wanted to find out whether this leads to more or fewer blood vessels and what role one particular protein plays in such a ...
Mar 29, 2022
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Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have found that niacin limits Alzheimer's disease progression when used in models in the lab, a discovery that could potentially pave the way toward therapeutic approaches ...
Mar 23, 2022
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An anti-inflammatory drug candidate, known as 3,6'-dithiopomalidomide (DP) and designed by researchers at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), protected lab mice against cognitive decline by reducing brain inflammation. ...
Mar 2, 2022
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Among people with no memory or thinking problems, having a poor score on a simple memory test may be linked to biomarkers in the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease as well as very early signs of memory impairment that ...
Feb 23, 2022
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A blood test developed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has proven highly accurate in detecting early signs of Alzheimer's disease in a study involving nearly 500 patients from across three continents, ...
Feb 22, 2022
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The question of genetic vs environmental influences plays a major role in research into brain aging, with researchers from UNSW Sydney's Centre for Healthy Brain Aging (CHeBA) revealing new insights into one of the hallmarks ...
Dec 20, 2021
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New research from the University of Chicago points to microglia, key immune cells in the brain, as a key mediator in the relationship between the gut microbiome and b-amyloid deposits in male mice in a model of Alzheimer's ...
Dec 2, 2021
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have compared how well different Alzheimer's biomarkers predict the progression of the disease and its effect on the memory. They found that early accumulation of tau proteins ...
Sep 30, 2021
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They are words nobody wants to hear: Alzheimer's disease and dementia. As the population ages, a growing number of older adults gradually lose cherished memories and the ability to think and, ultimately, to perform even the ...
Aug 30, 2021
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