Researchers from Macquarie University have discovered a world-first new treatment that reverses the effects of memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s disease in a study of mice with advanced dementia. The research, co-led by two brothers, Dr Arne Ittner and Professor Lars Ittner, from Macquarie University Dementia Research Centre, builds on their work begun in 2016...
Why do some people stay sharp into their 90s, even if they have the amyloid plaques in the brain that are associated with Alzheimer’s disease? And why do others reach their 90s without ever developing any plaques? These questions are explored in a new study published in the July 22, 2020, online issue of Neurology®,...
Scientists have developed a simple clinical test that can assess the lower limb strength of patients to predict their risk of falls. STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY DESIGNED BY STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY CARTOON AND COMIC ARTS STUDENT JOSH THOMAS WHO WON A COMPETITION TO ILLUSTRATE THE STUDY. view more CREDIT: STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY/JOSH THOMAS The “enhanced paper grip test” validated...
Results suggest our brains use internet search engine strategies to remember words and memories of past experiences. Credit: Courtesy of Zaghloul lab, NIH/NINDS. Thousands of words, big and small, are crammed inside our memory banks just waiting to be swiftly withdrawn and strung into sentences. In a recent study of epilepsy patients and healthy volunteers,...
by Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg The pictures show the same stomach organoids: It shows the cell nuclei (blue) and the skeleton of the cell (pink) as a cross-section of the organoids. In grey is the microscopic picture of the organoids. A single organoid here is about a quarter millimeter in size. Credit: Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, JMU Why is...
by John Hewitt , Medical Xpress Lurking just beneath the surface of just about every common nursery rhyme is a complex record of times long gone. For example, the “crooked man” who “laid a crooked sixpence upon a crooked style” was none other than the great 17th-century Scot General Sir Alexander Leslie. The crooked stile...
by Murdoch University Researchers at the Australian National Phenome Centre at Murdoch University and partners at Imperial College London have made a major breakthrough in understanding how individuals can have different reactions to the same diets. For decades, nutritionists and scientists have been debating whether weight loss is down to sheer will power and healthiness...
AI knows when you’re going to die. But unlike in sci-fi movies, that information could end up saving lives. A new paper published in Nature suggests that feeding electronic health record data to a deep learning model could substantially improve the accuracy of projected outcomes. In trials using data from two U.S. hospitals, researchers were able to show that these...
Diffusion Tensor MRIshowing a normal brain on the left and a brain probably affected by Alzheimer’s disease on the right. Photograph: BSIP/UIG via Getty Images Scientists have developed a new genetic test for Alzheimer’s risk that can be used to predict the age at which a person will develop the disease. A high score on...
