University of New Mexico Health Sciences researchers hope to launch human clinical trials in their quest for a vaccine to prevent the buildup of pathological tau—a protein in the brain associated with Alzheimer's dementia.
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A team of scientists including UCL researchers has tested four anti-amyloid Alzheimer's therapeutics to find out how the drugs bind to toxic amyloid beta protein to tackle the disease.
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Having a larger waistline, high blood pressure and other risk factors that make up metabolic syndrome is associated with an increased risk of young-onset dementia, according to a study published in Neurology.
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The total economic burden of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in the United States will reach $781 billion this year, according to new USC-led research.
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People with Alzheimer's disease may retain their ability to empathize, despite declines in other social abilities, finds a new study led by University College London (UCL) researchers.
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A multi‑institution research team including Columbia, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins and others, report that nearly one in three new dementia cases in older adults is associated with hearing loss, based on statistical modeling ...
American philosopher and psychologist William James once said, "I don't sing because I'm happy. I'm happy because I sing." Now, a new Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine study has found that even when singing ...
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A new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the Columbia Butler Aging Center suggests that risk factors and biomarkers related to Alzheimer's disease are associated with cognition much earlier ...
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Reducing high blood pressure substantially lowers the risk of dementia and cognitive impairment without dementia, according to the results of a phase 3 clinical trial involving almost 34,000 patients, published in Nature ...
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A new way to deliver disease-fighting proteins throughout the brain may improve the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders, according to University of California, Irvine scientists. By engineering ...
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