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September 5, 2024

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New Research on Anesthesia Unlocks Important Clues About the Nature of Consciousness

Sep. 5, 2024 — New research on anesthesia has yielded important results about the physical basis of consciousness in the ...

Your Brain Ages at Different Paces According to Social and Physical Environments

Aug. 29, 2024 — Countries with greater inequalities -- whether economic, pollution or disease-based -- exhibited older brain ...

Scientists Working to Understand Why Men With Prostate Cancer Are at Higher Risk of Alzheimer's

Aug. 29, 2024 — Researchers are searching for a better way to understand why many men with prostate cancer end up with Alzheimer's disease, and whether it's the standard hormone therapy treatment or an overactive ...

A Cellular Community in the Brain Drives Alzheimer's Disease

Aug. 28, 2024 — Analysis of 1.6 million brain cells from older adults has captured the cellular changes that occur in Alzheimer's early stages, revealing potential new targets and routes for ...

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Discovery of How Blood Clots Harm Brain and Body in COVID-19 Points to New Therapy

Aug. 28, 2024 — Scientists have solved the mystery of unusual blood clotting and inflammation in COVID-19 -- and identified a promising therapeutic ...

A Healthy Lifestyle May Counteract Diabetes-Associated Brain Aging

Aug. 28, 2024 — Type 2 diabetes and prediabetes are associated with accelerated brain aging, according to a new study. The good news is that this may be counteracted by a healthy ...

Epigenetics Blood Markers Can Help Explain Dementia Risk

Aug. 28, 2024 — Researchers assessed DNA methylation at 800,000 sites in the genome in blood samples collected from 900 people. The study includes extensive clinical information on participants, who all provided ...

Increased Risk of Dementia After Acute Kidney Injury

Aug. 26, 2024 — Acute kidney injury is associated with an increased risk of developing dementia, according to a new ...

The Brain's Balancing System

Aug. 27, 2024 — A finding by neuroscientists could open doors to new treatments for a range of psychiatric and neurological disorders attributed to dysfunctions in specific dopamine ...

Multiple Sclerosis Appears to Protect Against Alzheimer's Disease

Aug. 23, 2024 — A collaborative investigation among experts in Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis (MS) finds evidence that MS patients are less likely to have amyloid plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer's ...

Alzheimer's Drug May Slow Down Cognitive Decline in Dementia With Lewy Bodies

Aug. 23, 2024 — Dementia with Lewy bodies is a type of dementia that is similar to both Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease but studies on long-term ...

Researchers Have Discovered the Brain Circuit That Controls Our Ability to Recall Information and Memories

Aug. 22, 2024 — Researchers have identified the specific cell group in the brain that plays a central role in our ability to discriminate familiar and novel things, ...

Cancer Drug Could Treat Early-Stage Alzheimer's Disease, Study Shows

Aug. 22, 2024 — A type of drug developed for treating cancer holds promise as a new treatment for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, according to a recent ...

Cognitive Impairment in Chronic Kidney Disease

Aug. 19, 2024 — Cognitive impairment is one of the burdens for patients suffering from chronic kidney disease. Studies show that a kidney transplant can reverse cognitive impairment -- indicating that this disorder ...

The Role of an Energy-Producing Enzyme in Treating Parkinson's Disease

Aug. 21, 2024 — An enzyme called PGK1 has an unexpectedly critical role in the production of chemical energy in brain cells, according to a preclinical study. The investigators found that boosting its activity may ...

Discovery of 'Item Memory' Brain Cells Offers New Alzheimer's Treatment Target

Aug. 21, 2024 — Researchers have discovered the neurons responsible for 'item memory,' deepening our understanding of how the brain stores and retrieves the details of 'what' happened and ...

Heart Data Unlocks Sleep Secrets

Aug. 19, 2024 — Computer science researchers have developed an approach that matches the performance of expert-scored polysomnography using just a single-lead echocardiogram. In addition to simplifying a typically ...

Research Study Examines Alzheimer's Disease Drug on Tissue Samples from People With Down Syndrome

Aug. 19, 2024 — People with Down syndrome are likely to develop Alzheimer's disease at a young age, with autopsy studies showing that by age 40 years, the brains of individuals with Down syndrome have amyloid ...

Same Person, Different Place: Twice the Odds of a Dementia Diagnosis

Aug. 16, 2024 — With new medications on the market or in the works for Alzheimer's disease and other kinds of dementia, a new study suggests that getting the diagnosis needed to access these new treatments may ...

Sleep Resets Neurons for New Memories the Next Day

Aug. 15, 2024 — While everyone knows that a good night's sleep restores energy, a new study finds it resets another vital function: ...

Genetic Link Between Alzheimer's and Heart Disease Confirmed

Aug. 15, 2024 — Researchers have uncovered a significant genetic connection between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and several coronary artery disease (CAD) related disorders and lipid classes, offering opportunities ...

Cleaning Up the Aging Brain: Scientists Restore Brain's Trash Disposal System

Aug. 15, 2024 — Scientists have restored the brain's waste-clearing process in aging mice, offering potential new treatment for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's using existing ...

Do People With High Blood Pressure Have a Higher Risk of Alzheimer's Disease?

Aug. 14, 2024 — People 60 and older with untreated high blood pressure may have an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease compared to both people who have been or are being treated for high blood pressure as ...

Alzheimer's Cognitive Decline Predicted by Patient's Age, Sex, and Irregular Heart Rhythm

Aug. 14, 2024 — Older age, female sex, irregular heart rhythms, and daily activity levels can help to predict how much Alzheimer's Disease patients' cognitive function will decline, and how much they will ...

Stopping and Reversing Alzheimer's at an Early Stage

Aug. 14, 2024 — In the fight against Alzheimer's, researchers have developed a promising, preventative therapeutic approach. They specifically targeted the amyloid beta biomolecule, which triggers the ...

Shingles Increases Risk of Subsequent Cognitive Decline, Study Suggests

Aug. 14, 2024 — This new study found that an episode of shingles is associated with about a 20 percent higher long-term risk of subjective cognitive ...

A New Type of Degenerative Brain Disease Underlying Dementia Is Very Common Among the Oldest Old

Aug. 13, 2024 — A new type of degenerative brain disease, limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE), was recognized just a decade or so ago, and remains relatively unknown. In the disease, the ...

Alzheimer's Disease: It's Not Only Neurons

Aug. 12, 2024 — Memory loss, confusion, speech problems Alzheimer s disease is the most common cause of dementia, affecting about 35 million people worldwide, and the number is growing. The protein amyloid beta, ...

Drug Protects Against Air Pollution-Related Alzheimer's Signs in Mice

Aug. 12, 2024 — A new study shows how feeding mice a drug called GSM-15606 provided protection against air pollution-related increases in proteins linked to Alzheimer's ...

Possible Explanation for Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer's

Aug. 12, 2024 — People with type 2 diabetes are at increased risk of Alzheimer's disease and other cognitive problems. A new study shows that the reason may be that people with type 2 diabetes have more ...

In Breakthrough Alzheimer's Discovery, Research Team Finds New Targets and Biomarkers for Potential Novel Therapies

Aug. 12, 2024 — Scientists explain how the amyloid beta deposits long known to build up in the brains of Alzheimer's patients serve as a kind of scaffold for the accumulation of other proteins. Because many of ...

Memory Problems in Old Age Linked to a Key Enzyme, Study in Mice Finds

Aug. 9, 2024 — Memory updating is impaired in old age, yet little is known about the mechanisms behind the process and what goes wrong with older age. A team of researchers found that blocking a repressive enzyme ...

Study Reveals Ways in Which 40Hz Sensory Stimulation May Preserve Brain's 'White Matter'

Aug. 9, 2024 — Scientists report that gamma frequency light and sound stimulation preserves myelination in mouse models and reveal molecular mechanisms that may underlie the ...

Memory Loss in Aging and Dementia: Dendritic Spine Head Diameter Predicts Memory in Old Age

Aug. 7, 2024 — Over the course of life, memory fades with varying degrees, robbing older people of the ability to recollect personal experiences. This progressive, nearly inevitable process has long been ...