Dementia is an umbrella term to describe a progressive neurological condition that affects people's cognitive abilities, such as memory, language and reasoning.
Mar 23, 2023
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Bruce Willis' family has announced that he has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
Feb 17, 2023
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Dysfunctional neurons in the hippocampus of adult female mice modeling dementia can be repaired and reconnected to distant parts of the brain, reports a new study published in JNeurosci. The similarity between the mouse model ...
May 27, 2019
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The table is set, the tree is decorated, cookies on festive platters are wrapped in plastic.
Dec 22, 2017
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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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A University of Manchester PhD student has used MR scans in a new way to detect the devastating form of dementia that affected her late husband, raising the possibility of earlier diagnosis.
Aug 27, 2015
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In the white matter of the brain in particular, large differences can be measured between the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease and those with the behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia. Neuropsychologist Christiane ...
May 7, 2015
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A specialist DNA Bank, based at The University of Manchester, is now open to the worldwide research community, supporting more crucial discoveries about motor neurone disease (MND), a devastating terminal illness.
Oct 4, 2013
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