By Rich Haridy October 10, 2021 The gene variant plays a role in heightened inflammatory responses influencing both Alzheimer’s disease and severe COVID-19steilemas/Depositphotos Early in the pandemic researchers saw disproportionately high rates of dementia patients suffering from severe COVID-19. A common hypothesis was that memory impairments associated with neurodegeneration affect a person’s ability to consistently...
IMAGE: INRS PROFESSOR CHARLES RAMASSAMY, SPECIALIST ON ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, DOCTORAL STUDENT MOHAMED RAÂFET BEN KHEDHER AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDENT MOHAMED HADDAD. CREDIT: INRS Research conducted by the Ph.D student Mohamed Raâfet Ben Khedher and the postdoctoral researcher Mohamed Haddad of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has shown that an oxidation-antioxidant imbalance in the blood...
by Doug Carlson, Florida State University Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research from the Florida State University College of Medicine found that changes in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease are often visible early on in individuals with personality traits associated with the condition. The study focused on two traits previously linked to the risk of...
The Leucadia Therapeutics staff has been working for a few years now to prove the founder’s hypothesis on the cause of Alzheimer’s disease. In this view, the primary problem is impaired drainage of cerebrospinal fluid. As the drainage path through the cribriform plate is blocked by slow ossification of channels, metabolic waste builds up in...
New process combining infrared light and machine learning shows potential to break barriers in disease detection. Illustration by Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab A technology developed by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) shows great promise for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease before symptoms arise, potentially changing the course of research and treatment for this condition, which affects millions of...
by University of South Florida Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Fenchol, a natural compound abundant in some plants including basil, can help protect the brain against Alzheimer’s disease pathology, a preclinical study led by University of South Florida Health (USF Health) researchers suggests. The new study published Oct. 5 in the Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, discovered a sensing mechanism associated...
by University of Nevada, Las Vegas Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of UNLV neuroscientists has strengthened the link between Type II diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. In a study published in the September issue of the journal Communications Biology, researchers show that chronic hyperglycemia impairs working memory performance and alters fundamental aspects of working memory networks. “Diabetes is a...
by Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS a. The 1070-nm light irradiation apparatus and the transmittances of 1070-nm light. b. typical swimming path of mice during Morrie Water Maze. c. Perivascular microglia in the cortex of APP/PS1 mice (scale bar, 50 μm). Credit: by Lechan Tao, Qi Liu, Fuli...
by Curtin University Diagram of the brain of a person with Alzheimer’s Disease. Credit: Wikipedia/public domain. Ground-breaking new Curtin University-led research has discovered a likely cause of Alzheimer’s disease, in a significant finding that offers potential new prevention and treatment opportunities for Australia’s second-leading cause of death. The study, published in the prestigious PLOS Biology journal and tested...
by Public Library of Science Hippocampal dentate gyrus in HSHA mice, showing significant astrocyte activation (GFAP: white) and oxidative stress (8OHdG: green) surrounding the cerebral capillaries (laminin-a4: magenta). Nuclei staining with DAPI (blue). Credit: John Charles Louis Mamo, Lam V et al., 2021, PLOS Biology, CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Amyloid protein made in the liver can cause...
