Neuroscience
Consumer Health: Do you know the warning signs of stroke?
May is National Stroke Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about the warning signs of stroke and the need for prompt treatment.
May 5, 2022
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Neuroscience
Researchers look to Latin America for clues on healthy brain aging
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin study the factors influencing healthy brain aging in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries and find the lessons learned there, can also be applied to home.
Aug 11, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The secret to successful aging
Whether we choose to accept or fight it, the fact is that we will all age, but will we do so successfully? Aging successfully has been linked with the "positivity effect", a biased tendency towards and preference for positive, ...
Jul 14, 2011
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Negative beliefs about aging predict Alzheimer's disease
Newly published research led by the Yale School of Public Health demonstrates that individuals who hold negative beliefs about aging are more likely to have brain changes associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Dec 7, 2015
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Cardiology
'Brain-age' biomarkers predict stroke recovery more accurately than chronological age, new study shows
Stroke experts have identified how radiomics, an emerging image-quantifying technology, can be used to extract biomarkers from clinical brain MRI scans in stroke patients and estimate a patient's relative "brain age." The ...
May 4, 2022
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Neuroscience
Scientists shed light on processes behind age-related decline in brain structures important for memory
Ageing can cause damage to support cells in the white matter, which in turn may lead to damage in the grey matter of the hippocampus, finds a new study by Cardiff University.
Jan 31, 2019
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Neuroscience
High BP, rising BP between ages 36-53 associated with smaller brain volume, white matter lesions in later years
High blood pressure and large increases in blood pressure in midlife may be associated with brain pathologies in later life, according to an observational study of 502 people who have been tracked since their birth in 1946, ...
Aug 21, 2019
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Neuroscience
Artificial intelligence predicts brain age from EEG signals recorded during sleep studies
A study shows that a deep neural network model can accurately predict the brain age of healthy patients based on electroencephalogram data recorded during an overnight sleep study, and EEG-predicted brain age indices display ...
Jun 9, 2021
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Health
Protecting our brains: Tackling delirium
A new national plan of action provides a roadmap for improving the care of patients with delirium, a poorly understood and often unrecognized brain condition that affects approximately seven million hospitalized Americans ...
Nov 17, 2011
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Medical research
Gut bacteria rewind aging brain in mice
In 1895, on turning 50, Elie Metchnikoff became increasingly anxious about aging. As a result, the Russian Nobel prize-winning scientist, and one of the founders of immunology, turned his attention away from immunology and ...
Aug 10, 2021
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