Baseball may be America’s favorite pastime recreational reading is more consistently ranked highly. It’s not hard to see why recreational reading is simultaneously engaging and relaxing, and it’s fun to do alone and with friends. A team of researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology has uncovered yet another reason to love […]
New research suggests nose picking could increase the risk of Alzheimer’s and dementia.
Professor James St John, Head of the Clem Jones Center for Neurobiology and Stem Cell Research, is a co-author of the world’s first research. Griffith University researchers have demonstrated that bacteria can travel through the olfactory nerve in the nose and into the brain in mice, creating markers that are a tell-tale sign of Alzheimer’s […]
Experimental Alzheimer’s medication reduces cognitive deterioration by 27%
1800 Alzheimer’s patients at varying stages participated in the study. There is some good news for Alzheimer’s patients as an experimental treatment has demonstrated great success in delaying the decrease in cognitive and functional abilities by roughly 27%, according to the drug’s manufacturers. Lecanemab, a medicine created by American corporation Biogen and Japanese pharmaceutical company […]
An improved alzheimer’s medication that has no inflammatory side effects, developed by Korean scientists
Without causing inflammatory side effects or synapse loss, the researchers think this method could be a breakthrough in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The neurotoxic inflammatory adverse effects of standard treatments are avoided by the novel medication. Based on its capacity to reduce A plaque burden in AD patients, Aduhelm just became the first medication […]
Midlife cognitive performance and healthier brain structure have been linked to omega-3 fatty acids
New evidence indicates that eating food that contains omega-3 fatty acids, such as cold-water fish, may preserve brain health and enhance cognition in middle age. Omega-3 fatty acid concentrations in red blood cells were linked with brain structure and cognitive function in midlife, an exploratory cross-sectional study showed. The study is one of the first […]
10,000 steps per day may halve the risk of dementia
More than 55 million individuals worldwide are afflicted by dementia, which is also the sixth largest cause of death worldwide. The number of dementia cases is rising along with the percentage of older persons in the population. There is growing evidence that regular exercise is one of the best methods to lower the risk of […]
For older adults with dementia, a new tool may be able to predict mortality risk
Clinicians may be able to reliably forecast death in dementia-afflicted older persons with the aid of a prognosis prediction model. The researchers estimate that 6.5 million Americans age 65 or older have Alzheimer’s disease or another type of dementia. Financial planning, clinical decisions, the use of long-term care, and other types of decisions for this […]
Psoriasis medication Otezla may aid fat loss in people with psoriatic arthritis
Otezla (apremilast) is a medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treating plaque psoriasis. In a recent study, scientists say they found the drug may also help people with psoriasis reduce body fat, potentially improving their cardiovascular health. Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania measured changes in 70 […]
Alzheimer’s-causing protein tangles in the brain can be broken up by a green tea molecule
UCLA researchers have employed a chemical from green tea to find more compounds that might disassemble protein tangles in the brain thought to be the root cause of Alzheimer’s and related disorders. UCLA biochemists detail how EGCG breaks tau fibres layer by layer in a report that was published in Nature Communications. They also describe […]
Repeated infections associated with increased risk of some neurodegenerative diseases
An increased risk of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease later in life is linked to early-to-midlife infections that require hospital care, according to a recent study. Neurodegenerative disorders are a type of disease in which cells of the central nervous system stop working or die. It usually get worse over time and have no cure. They […]
