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The brain protein believed to be a key component in the progress of dementia causes memory loss in healthy brains even before physical signs of degeneration appear, according to researchers at the University of Sussex.
Their study, published in the open access Nature Publishing Group journal Scientific Reports, reveals a direct link between t...
If you’re regularly out in the fresh air, you’re doing something good for both your brain and your well-being, according to researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE).
The findings of their longitudinal study appeared online in July 2021 in The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry.
...A study published in April 2021 in Neurology by researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has revealed that DCTclock, a digital version of the classic Clock Drawing Test (CDT), was effective in identifying the beginnings of Alzheimer’s disease pathology in cognitively normal individuals, those with no outward symptoms of dementia.
The Linus Health Inc ...
When Alzheimer’s disease strikes, the entire brain doesn’t crumble at once. Instead the mind unravels like grim clockwork, beginning with the telltale degradation of a group of brain cells in the entorhinal cortex. These so-called vulnerable neurons are responsible for shuttling experiences into memories. They are always the first to go.
Figuring out why patients lo...
The study is published in the medical journal Neurology.
Tau is a protein found in neurons and the protein can form into tangles. These accumulate in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease. This accumulation can start decades before symptoms of the disease appear. Previous studies of older adults have suggested that sleep deprivation can increas...