Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Setting the record straight on Alzheimer's disease
Can your diet deter dementia? Is there a link between cold sores and Alzheimer's? Do crossword puzzles help prevent memory decline?
Nov 19, 2014
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News tagged with frontotemporal
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Coverage of Bruce Willis' frontotemporal degeneration shows media misconstrues the disease
A new paper in Innovation in Aging shows that a great deal of media coverage of the actor Bruce Willis' condition, frontotemporal degeneration, was inaccurate, revealing the public's limited knowledge of the disease.
Dec 1, 2023
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Neuroscience
Brainstem atrophy is linked to extrapyramidal symptoms in frontotemporal dementia
Frontotemporal dementia patients with extrapyramidal symptoms have brainstem atrophy and reduced metabolism in certain areas of the brain significantly more often than patients without extrapyramidal symptoms, a new study ...
Apr 7, 2022
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Neuroscience
Understanding how protein tau moves between neurons yields insight into treatments for neurodegenerative diseases
In the fight against neurodegenerative diseases such as frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer's and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, the tau protein is a major culprit. Found abundantly in our brain cells, tau is normally a ...
Apr 2, 2020
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Genetics
Autoimmune diseases in ALS patients linked to genetic mutation
A study published today in the journal Nature could help explain why certain people who develop amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a deadly neurological disorder also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, are prone to autoimmune ...
Aug 20, 2020
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Late-onset alcohol abuse can be a presenting symptom of dementia, researchers find
Patients who start abusing alcohol later in life—after age 40—may be doing so secondary to an underlying neurologic condition, such as frontotemporal dementia, according to findings by a team of researchers from the Icahn ...
Apr 5, 2022
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Medical research
Patient stem cells used to make dementia-in-a-dish; help identify new treatment strategy
Belgian researchers have identified a new strategy for treating an inherited form of dementia after attempting to turn stem cells derived from patients into the neurons most affected by the disease. In patient-derived stem ...
Dec 31, 2014
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Neuroscience
Dementia patients struggle to cope with change because of damage to general intelligence brain networks
People with dementia struggle to adapt to changes in their environment because of damage to areas of the brain known as "multiple demand networks," highly-evolved areas of the brain that support general intelligence, say ...
Mar 8, 2022
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Neuroscience
Study reveals a driver of brain cell damage in neurodegeneration
Scientists have long known that the complement cascade, a set of immune system proteins, protects against infection in the body. But in recent years, researchers have uncovered new roles for the system in the brain, including ...
Mar 30, 2023
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Neuroscience
Early signs of frontotemporal dementia found in personalized cerebral organoids
Frontotemporal dementias are a group of fatal and debilitating brain disorders for which there are no cures. In an article published July 26 in Cell, Mount Sinai researchers describe how they were able to recreate much of ...
Jul 26, 2021
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