Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, continues to remain one of modern medicine's greatest challenges. This progressive neurodegenerative disorder affects millions of people worldwide, with numbers ...
Feb 19, 2025
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The factor that tips you over the edge from being at risk for a disease to actually developing the disease is not always clear. Now, researchers from Japan report one factor that triggers problematic proteins to start behaving ...
Feb 18, 2025
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The NIDUS-Family package of care uses goal setting to help people with dementia live well at home for longer. New research from Queen Mary University of London in collaboration with UCL shows that, in addition to these known ...
Feb 17, 2025
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Brain inflammation, while a crucial part of the body's immune response, takes on a detrimental role in Alzheimer's disease. Unlike the acute, short-lived inflammation that combats infection, the inflammation associated with ...
Feb 17, 2025
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In diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, specific proteins misfold and clump together, forming toxic aggregates that damage brain cells. The process of proteins spontaneously clumping is called protein aggregation and ...
Feb 17, 2025
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Up to half of all people living with Alzheimer's Disease in Ireland remain undiagnosed. Now, a new blood test may have the potential to transform patient care, allowing for better diagnosis, earlier interventions and more ...
Feb 14, 2025
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Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have found that intracranial hemorrhages, or "brain bleeds," caused by a ruptured blood vessel in the brain, double a person's risk of developing dementia later in life.
Feb 14, 2025
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The root causes of most forms of Alzheimer's disease largely remain a mystery. Now, researchers have revealed a new piece of the puzzle.
Feb 13, 2025
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A personalized intervention for hearing care could help protect cognitive health in older adults at risk of dementia, according to a pilot study from UCL and UCLH.
Feb 13, 2025
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Researchers from the School of Medicine and Global Brain Health Institute have examined the challenges and opportunities of making travel more dementia friendly. Currently there are over 64,000 people living with dementia ...
Feb 13, 2025
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