From the Regenstrief Institute press release: Nearly half of the 13 million older adults hospitalized annually in the United States are unable to make their own medical decisions and rely on surrogates, usually close family…
From the Brigham Young University press release: Research published Wednesday in Genome Medicine details a novel and promising approach in the effort to treat Alzheimer’s disease. Brigham Young University professors Perry Ridge and John Kauwe led the…
From the BMJ press release: Marriage may lower the risk of developing dementia, concludes a synthesis of the available evidence published online in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. Lifelong singletons and widowers are at…
From the University of Twente press release: Using ‘Raman’ optical technology, scientists of the University of Twente in The Netherlands, can now produce images of brain tissue that is affected by Alzheimer’s disease. The images…
From the Brigham and Women’s Hospital press release: Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital led by Ying Bao, MD, ScD, an epidemiologist in BWH’s Channing Division of Network Medicine and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical…
From the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne press release: The brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease contain characteristic tangles inside neurons. These tangles are formed when a protein called Tau aggregates into twisted fibrils. As…
From the Kumamoto University press release: A Japanese research group has revealed that elderly people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have a particularly weakened ability to memorize human faces in the short term when compared…
From the Allen Institute press release: In a comprehensive analysis of samples from 107 aged human brains, researchers at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, UW Medicine and Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute have…
From the University of South Florida (USF Health) press release: Computerized brain-training is now the first intervention of any kind to reduce the risk of dementia among older adults. The breakthrough results from a randomized…
From the University of Eastern Finland press release: Astrocytes, the supporting cells of the brain, could play a significant role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), according to a new study from the University…