Flagging dementia patients for better hospital care

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Cedars-Sinai investigators are using electronic health records to identify hospitalized patients likely to have dementia. The method they developed, detailed in a study published in the…

Risk of young-onset dementia could be reduced through targeting health and lifestyle factors, finds study

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have identified a wide range of risk factors for young-onset dementia. The findings challenge the notion that genetics are the sole cause of the condition,…

Predicting Alzheimer’s dementia in oldest of the old

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study indicates that severity of amyloid deposition in the brain—not just age—may be key to determining who will benefit from new anti-amyloid therapies to…

Digital training program improves quality of life for care residents with dementia—even during the COVID-19 pandemic

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Quality of life for people with dementia living in residential and nursing home care substantially improved after staff took part in a digital training program that…

Research suggests statins may slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Statins could slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, at least for some patients. This is the result of a new study led by Karolinska Institutet published…

Study shows stem cell transplant significantly improves outcomes in refractory juvenile systemic sclerosis

Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research at ACR Convergence 2023, the American College of Rheumatology’s (ACR) annual meeting, shows that patients with refractory juvenile systemic sclerosis improved significantly on nearly…

High biological age may increase the risk of dementia and stroke

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain People who have a higher biological age than their actual chronological age have a significantly increased risk of stroke and dementia, especially vascular dementia. These are…

High metabolism is an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease, finds study

Credit: CC0 Public Domain An early phase in the process of developing Alzheimer’s disease is a metabolic increase in a part of the brain called the hippocampus, report researchers from…

Cognitive behavioral therapy found to ease how fibromyalgia pain is experienced by the brain

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Patients living with fibromyalgia (FM)—a disease that predominantly affects women and is characterized by chronic pain, fatigue and brain fog—often find limited treatment options and a…

Melatonin and its derivatives found to enhance long-term object recognition memory

Melatonin and its derivatives enhance long-term object recognition memory in male mice by modulating the phosphorylation of memory-related proteins through receptor and non-receptor signaling pathways. Credit: Atsuhiko Chiba from Sophia…