Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Use of menopausal hormone therapy is associated with an increased rate of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, suggests a large Danish study published by The BMJ. An…
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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…
Certain gut microbes may warn of Alzheimer’s disease long before the first symptoms begin
Credit: sfam_photo/Shutterstock What if the microbes in your gut could act as an early warning system, alerting you that you could be developing Alzheimer’s disease? This might sound improbable, but…
Study shows dementia risk increases the earlier a person develops diabetes
Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research published in Diabetologia shows an association between type 2 diabetes (T2D) and developing dementia in later life—with the risk of dementia increasing the earlier…
Study provides evidence that breathing exercises may reduce Alzheimer’s risk
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The exercise was simple: inhale for a count of five, then exhale for a count of five. Do that for 20 minutes, twice a day, for…
