Tag: Alzheimer’s

PET tracer gauges effectiveness of promising Alzheimer’s treatment

From the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging press release: In the December featured basic science article in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Belgian researchers report on the first large-scale… Read more »

Study suggests some video games are good for older adults’ brains

From the Université de Montréal press release: If you’re between 55 and 75 years old, you may want to try playing 3D platform games like Super Mario 64 to stave… Read more »

Study suggests genes behind higher education linked to lower risk of Alzheimer’s

From the Karolinska Institutet press release: Using genetic information, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden provide new evidence that higher educational attainment is strongly associated with a lower risk of… Read more »

Study identifies gene variant that protects against Alzheimer’s disease

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… Read more »

Study suggests marriage may help stave off dementia

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… Read more »

Study suggests Alzheimer’s Tau protein forms toxic complexes with cell membranes

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… Read more »

Preliminary stages of dementia reduce human face memorization ability

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… Read more »