Neuroscientist Anne Hafkemeijer is able to distinguish two different forms of dementia using advanced imaging techniques. This is the first step towards early recognition of dementia in patients on the basis of brain networks.
May 25, 2016
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University of Florida Health researchers have developed a unique mouse model that will allow researchers around the world to better study the genetic origins and potential treatments for a neurodegenerative brain disease ...
Apr 21, 2016
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As the current COVID-19 crisis has shown, the disruptions that occur when transportation cannot proceed as usual are system-wide, affecting individual lives, companies, and the global economy. Now imagine a similar problem ...
Sep 23, 2020
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Nearly 100% of cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—the progressive, fatal neurodegenerative disease known as ALS or Lou Gherig's disease—involve the buildup of a protein called TDP-43.
Feb 27, 2023
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People with more demanding jobs may live longer after developing the disease frontotemporal dementia than people with less skilled jobs, according to a new study published in the April 22, 2015, online issue of Neurology, ...
Apr 22, 2015
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Researchers at University College London (UCL) have revealed that a change in sense of humour could be an early sign of dementia. The findings could help improve dementia diagnosis, by highlighting changes not commonly thought ...
Nov 10, 2015
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Scientists at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), have identified a new risk factor for multiple neurodegenerative ...
Apr 27, 2020
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A new study in Biological Psychiatry reports that dementia-related and psychiatric-related proteins cluster together to form aggregates in the brain, leading to abnormal cell function and behavior. Aggregation of the protein ...
May 8, 2018
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The study, which also shows that these inequalities in England are not replicated in other parts of the UK, is published in the journal Age and Ageing.
Nov 19, 2015
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A group of scientists from various hospitals and research centers in Catalonia have published a study in the journal Brain that reveals connections between two devastating brain diseases: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) ...
Jan 30, 2024
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