Health
Long term high-fat diet expands waistline and shrinks brain
New research shows that fatty foods may not only be adding to your waistline but also playing havoc with your brain.
Jul 8, 2022
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News tagged with cognitive decline
Health
Following a Mediterranean diet reduces the risk of cognitive decline in older people: Study
Old people who follow a Mediterranean diet are at a lower risk of cognitive decline, according to a study published in the journal Molecular Nutrition and Food Research. The study provides new evidence for a better understanding ...
Nov 17, 2023
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Eyes reveal early Alzheimer's disease
Reduced blood capillaries in the back of the eye may be a new, noninvasive way to diagnose early cognitive impairment, the precursor to Alzheimer's disease in which individuals become forgetful, reports a newly published ...
Apr 5, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers discover underlying cause of brain fog linked with long COVID
A team of scientists from Trinity College Dublin and investigators from FutureNeuro has announced a major discovery with profound importance for our understanding of brain fog and cognitive decline seen in some patients with ...
Feb 22, 2024
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Medical research
Anti-aging protein in red blood cells helps stave off cognitive decline
Research conducted by Qiang et al has discovered a link between a protein in red blood cells and age-related decline in cognitive performance. Published in the open access journal PLOS Biology on 17th June 2021, the study ...
Jun 17, 2021
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Neuroscience
Mitochondria power supply failure may cause age-related cognitive impairment
Brains are like puzzles, requiring many nested and co-dependent pieces to function well. The brain is divided into areas, each containing many millions of neurons connected across thousands of synapses. These synapses, which ...
Apr 12, 2023
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Neuroscience
Short sleep, aging brain
Researchers at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore (Duke-NUS) have found evidence that the less older adults sleep, the faster their brains age. These findings, relevant in the context of Singapore's rapidly ageing ...
Jul 1, 2014
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Neuroscience
Study finds women have more brain changes after menopause
Women who have gone through menopause may have more of a brain biomarker called white matter hyperintensities than premenopausal women or men of the same age, according to a new study published in the June 29, 2022, online ...
Jun 29, 2022
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Neuroscience
New research suggests an existing drug, riluzole, may prevent foggy 'old age' brain
Forgetfulness, it turns out, is all in the head. Scientists have shown that fading memory and clouding judgment, the type that comes with advancing age, show up as lost and altered connections between neurons in the brain. ...
Dec 22, 2014
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Medications
Use of antibiotics by women in midlife linked to later cognitive decline
A team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Rush Medical College and Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School has found ...
