Patients with high blood pressure and progression of periventricular white matter hyper intensities showed signs of cognitive impairment despite taking medication to lower their blood pressure, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Hypertension. High blood pressure has been linked to an increased risk for dementia, but what’s unclear is what kinds...
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Alzheimer’s Disease and Gingko Biloba
What is Ginkgo Biloba? Ginkgo biloba is a tree that is native to China and has been used in traditional Chinese medicine and cuisine for centuries. Extracts of Ginkgo biloba are often sold as food supplements with potential medicinal uses ranging from treating high blood pressure to altitude sickness. The efficacy of Ginkgo extracts for...
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Alzheimer’s Disease and Gingko Biloba
What is Ginkgo Biloba? Ginkgo biloba is a tree that is native to China and has been used in traditional Chinese medicine and cuisine for centuries. Extracts of Ginkgo biloba are often sold as food supplements with potential medicinal uses ranging from treating high blood pressure to altitude sickness. The efficacy of Ginkgo extracts for...
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New study suggests Alzheimer’s is not one disease but six different conditions
A large team of researchers has developed a new way to classify patients with Alzheimer’s disease, suggesting we should think of the disease as six distinctly different conditions instead of one single disease. Based on a new study, researchers are aiming to reclassify Alzheimer’s disease into a set of six biologically different conditions(Credit: ADragan/Depositphotos) Currently Alzheimer’s disease...
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Researchers find biomarkers for identifying Alzheimer’s and mild cognitive impairment in saliva samples
The discovery of three biomarkers that detect mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s has the potential to lead to the development of a saliva test to diagnose the chronic neurodegenerative disease. Roger Dixon (left) and Liang Li are working together to develop a saliva test for Alzheimer’s disease. Credit: John Ulan University of Alberta scientists Liang...
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New PET tracer identified for imaging tau in Alzheimer’s disease patients
Checkerboard plot showing 18F-RO-948-positivity results (black cells: bilaterally positive; gray cells: unilaterally positive) of anterior and posterior Braak regions (19), and estimated Braak stages (right column) (20). esV = extrastriatal …more In the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and the search for effective treatments, tau tangles in the brain have joined amyloid build-up as markers of...
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Study points to novel epigenetic target for Alzheimer’s Disease
A research team at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Center for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI) has identified a novel epigenetic drug target to simultaneously normalize multiple deficits in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common form of dementia in the elderly and the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S., according to the...
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Drinking coffee may reduce your chances of developing Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s
A new study out of the Krembil Brain Institute, part of the Krembil Research Institute, suggests there could be more to that morning jolt of goodness than a boost in energy and attention. Drinking coffee may also protect you against developing both Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. “Coffee consumption does seem to have some correlation to...
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How an outsider in Alzheimer’s research bucked the prevailing theory — and clawed for validation
Robert Moir was damned if he did and damned if he didn’t. The Massachusetts General Hospital neurobiologist had applied for government funding for his Alzheimer’s disease research and received wildly disparate comments from the scientists tapped to assess his proposal’s merits. It was an “unorthodox hypothesis” that might “fill flagrant knowledge gaps,” wrote one reviewer,...
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New study bolsters hypothesis that herpes virus causes Alzheimer’s
A new review article published in the journal Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience has summarized the most recent evidence supporting the controversial hypothesis that Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV1) is a major causal factor for Alzheimer’s disease. The article makes particular note of new population data out of Taiwan, finding that people infected with HSV1 are...