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…
Tag: Alzheimer’s disease & dementia
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…
Stem cell therapy rescues symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease
Systemic transplantation of wild-type hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (green) led to their differentiation into microglia-like cells (red), which reduced the amount of beta amyloid plaques (magenta) in the brain.…
Novel vaccine may hold key to prevent or reduce the impact of Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A novel vaccine that targets inflamed brain cells associated with Alzheimer’s disease may hold the key to potentially preventing or modifying the course of the disease,…
Guidance on new treatments for early Alzheimer’s disease issued
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New therapies for early Alzheimer’s disease, monoclonal antibodies that remove amyloid-β plaques in the brain, are bringing hope to people whose lives have been affected by…
New opioid use raises death risk 11-fold in those with dementia
Older adults who begin using opioid painkillers after a dementia diagnosis have a significantly greater risk of death—about 11-fold within the first two weeks, according to new research. The risk…
Crosswords and chess may help more than socializing in avoiding dementia
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Computer use, crosswords and games like chess are more strongly associated with older people avoiding dementia than knitting, painting or socializing, a Monash University study has…
Genomics- and image-guided subtyping refines characterization of Alzheimer’s disease
Right and left hemisphere brain surface plots showing the strength of the canonical vector, νƙ, for each subtype. Credit: Images created by Fan Yang, UMass Amherst, Ph.D. A new computational…
