by Ruhr-Universitaet-Bochum Receiver-operating curve (ROC) analyses to determine the discriminative power of all biomarkers to distinguish between patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and controls within 17 years. Simoa biomarkers are log-transformed values. Participants with missing apolipoprotein E (APOE) status have been excluded (n = 12). (A) ROC analyses revealed an area under the curve (AUC) for AD...
by Zara Abrams, University of Southern California Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain To help protect older adults from financial exploitation, researchers are working to understand who is most at risk. New findings from the Keck School of Medicine of USC, published this week in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, suggest that willingness to give away money could...
By Kristen Rogers, CNN Updated 4:21 PM ET, Tue March 15, 2022 An elderly person (not involved in the research) closes his shutters to keep cool during the heatwave in Clermont-Ferrand, France, on June 25, 2019. (CNN)If you’re not familiar with the term “mild cognitive impairment,” you’re not the only one. More than 80% of Americans...
Clinical trial seeks seniors with sleep issues but no cognitive problems. The TV sitcom grandpa character who always seems to fall asleep at unfortunate moments is so common it’s almost a cliché. But daytime napping and disjointed sleep at night aren’t normal parts of aging. Sleep disturbances can be an early sign of a neurodegenerative...
by Amy Norton Certain changes in a part of the brain stem, visible in scans, might be a potential early indicator of Alzheimer’s disease, a new study suggests. Using different brain imaging techniques, researchers found that lesser “integrity” in the brain stem region was linked to a faster decline in memory and thinking in older adults, as well as certain...
