By studying a rare form of dementia, researchers might have found a way to detect neurodegeneration before brain cells are lost for good. Earlier detection could provide therapeutic drug treatments a chance to work. Scientists might have found an early detection method for some forms of dementia, according to new research by the University of Arizona and...
Tag: <span>Dementia</span>
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What helps prevent dementia? Try exercise, not vitamin pills
by Marilynn Marchione If you want to save your brain, focus on keeping the rest of your body well with exercise and healthy habits rather than popping vitamin pills, new guidelines for preventing dementia advise. About 50 million people currently have dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type. Each year brings 10 million new cases, says the report released Tuesday...
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Here’s how to prevent dementia, according to new world health guidelines
Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY USA TODAY sat down with Ruth Drew of the Alzheimer’s Association to discuss family conflicts due to caring for a relative with dementia. USA TODAY Eat well, exercise often and don’t take some of those vitamins, the World Health Organization said in newly released guidelines on how to reduce risk of dementia. With dementia already affecting 50...
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Scientists found new drugs for stroke and dementia in the shelves of pharmacies
Recovering after stroke is extremely difficult. Not only you have to try to live with the changes presented by the disease, you also have to understand the risk of developing a secondary stroke at any time. A team of scientists led by the Universities of Edinburgh and Nottingham have just made a step towards better treatments that prevent recurrence of types...
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When is Alzheimer’s not Alzheimer’s? Researchers characterize a different form of dementia
by NIH/National Institute on Aging A recently recognized brain disorder that mimics clinical features of Alzheimer’s disease has for the first time been defined with recommended diagnostic criteria and other guidelines for advancing and catalyzing future research. Scientists from several National Institutes of Health-funded institutions, in collaboration with international peers, described the newly-named pathway to dementia, Limbic-predominant Age-related...
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Fewer reproductive years in women linked to an increased risk of dementia
by American Academy of Neurology Women who start their period later, go through menopause earlier or have a hysterectomy may have a greater risk of developing dementia, according to a new study published in the March 27, 2019, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The study found a link between increased risk of dementia...
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Diabetes treatment may keep dementia, Alzheimer’s at bay
Study finds progression of dementia and Alzheimer’s signature tangles are much faster in people with untreated diabetes UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Patients on medication for type 2 diabetes may be keeping Alzheimer’s disease away. USC Dornsife psychologists have found that those patients with untreated diabetes developed signs of Alzheimer’s disease 1.6 times faster than people...
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Does eating two teaspoons of nuts really boost your brain function by 60%?
by Sandra-Ilona Sunram-Lea, The Conversation Dementia is a cruel disease that robs people of their memory, their judgement and their identity. Unfortunately, there is no cure, and in the past few years a number of clinical trials for new dementia drugs have failed – the latest being Biogen’s drug aducanumab. Without any effective treatments on the...
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Is It Alzheimer’s Or Another Dementia? The Right Answer Matters
In the U.S., older people with dementia are usually told they have Alzheimer’s disease. But a range of other brain diseases can also impair thinking and memory and judgment, according to scientists attending a summit on dementias held Thursday and Friday at the National Institutes of Health. These include strokes, a form of Parkinson’s disease and a disease that damages brain...
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Immune profile two days after stroke predicts dementia a year later
Stanford researchers have found that transient changes in the numbers and activation levels of a handful of circulating immune cell types can predict the likelihood of dementia one year after a stroke. A pattern of inflammatory activity in circulating blood cells two days aftera stroke strongly predicts the likelihood of losing substantial mental acuity one year later, investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine report in a new study. The findings, based...