A company has started selling the first blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer's disease, a leap for the field that could make it much easier for people to learn whether they have dementia. It also raises concern about the ...
Nov 30, 2020
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A new study led by researchers at UC San Francisco has found that among older Americans with cognitive impairment, the greater the air pollution in their neighborhood, the higher the likelihood of amyloid plaques—a hallmark ...
Nov 30, 2020
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Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine have discovered a molecular mechanism that causes a "traffic jam" of enzymes traveling up and down neuronal axons, leading to the accumulation of amyloid beta—a key feature ...
Nov 18, 2020
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New research from the University of Eastern Finland explores the role of diabetes in the cellular and molecular changes underlying Alzheimer's disease (AD). In an AD mouse model, diabetes induced through a diet rich in fats ...
Nov 18, 2020
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In many neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's, protein aggregates form in the brain and are assumed to contribute to neuronal cell death. Yet there exists a cellular defense mechanism that counteracts these aggregates, ...
Nov 11, 2020
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A new study by Monash University has found that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been linked to an increased risk of dementia.
Nov 11, 2020
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Greek researchers and clinicians investigated for the first time the effect of High Phenolic Early Harvest Extra Virgin Olive Oil (HP-EH-EVOO) versus Moderate Phenolic (MP-EVOO) and Mediterranean Diet (MeDi) as a therapeutic ...
Nov 09, 2020
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A new study suggests that it is possible to design drugs that can target a type of shape-shifting protein involved in Alzheimer's disease, which was previously thought to be undruggable.
Nov 04, 2020
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One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease is the formation of amyloid plaques—sticky clumps of a protein called amyloid beta—that collect between neurons in the brain. Increasingly, however, attention has turned from ...
Nov 02, 2020
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New research has confirmed long-suspected links between sleep apnea and Alzheimer's disease, finding identical signs of brain damage in both conditions.
Sep 28, 2020
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