From the Indiana University press release: Aging research specialists have identified, for the first time, a form of mental exercise that can reduce the risk of dementia. The cognitive training, called speed of processing, showed…
From the Temple University Health System press release: Canola oil is one of the most widely consumed vegetable oils in the world, yet surprisingly little is known about its effects on health. Now, a new…
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 longitudinal imaging study to evaluate…
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 off mild cognitive impairment and…
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 Alzheimer’s disease. The causes of…
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 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…