Scientists have uncovered a mechanism through which a toxic brain protein that is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease can damage neurons, or brain cells. illustration of brain disintegrating New research uncovers the mechanism that leads to the progressive loss of brain cells that characterizes Alzheimer’s disease. The team at the Grenoble Institute of Neurosciences in...
Tag: <span>Alzheimer’s Disease(AD)</span>
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Alzheimer’s disease: It may be possible to restore memory function, preclinical study finds
Research published today in the journal Brain reveals a new approach to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) that may eventually make it possible to reverse memory loss, a hallmark of the disease in its late stages. Yan and her team used an epigenetic approach to restore memory function in an animal model of Alzheimer’s Disease Credit: Douglas...
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Breakthrough sees new drug for dementia patients which could spell the end to the dangerous ‘chemical cosh’ meds to keep sufferers sedated
Alzheimer’s victims suffer from psychotic episodes and terrifying hallucinations As a result, they are often prescribed anti-psychotic drugs and tranquillisers But in many cases patients are sedated to stop them from wandering off – a practice dubbed the ‘chemical cosh’ A new drug could spell the end of the scandal of dementia patients being prescribed dangerous...
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Healthy mitochondria could stop Alzheimer’s
Whole-brain hemisphere sections of Alzheimer’s mice, the model APP/PSEN1, before and after treatment with the NAD+ booster Nicotinamide riboside (NR). The beta-amyloid plaque content in the brain of the APP/PSEN1 mice (left), clearly …more Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia and neurodegeneration worldwide. A major hallmark of the disease is the accumulation...
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ALZHEIMER’S SYMPTOMS WORSENED BY CANOLA OIL—AND IT COULD CAUSE ONSET OF DEMENTIA, SCIENTISTS WARN
Cooking with canola oil is extremely common, but a new study might make you think before subbing it in for the ever-popular olive. Researchers from Temple University found that canola decreased learning ability, inhibited memory and led to weight gain for mice with Alzheimer’s disease. Canola oil may worsen the symptoms and onset of dementia,...
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Smell test challenge suggests clinical benefit for some before development of Alzheimer’s
PET scan of a human brain with Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) may have discovered a way to use a patient’s sense of smell to treat Alzheimer’s disease before it ever develops. Having an impaired sense of smell is recognized as one...
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Alzheimer’s could begin outside the brain: Toxic proteins behind the disease can develop anywhere in the body before invading grey matter like cancer, reveals study
Researchers in Canada have found Alzheimer’s-linked proteins in the kidneys and liver Those proteins can then travel like cancer up to the brain, causing dementia The discovery could lead to new ways to prevent the condition before symptoms set in Alzheimer’s disease can start anywhere in the body before traveling to the brain, alarming new...