Alzheimer's & Other Dementias
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Disrupted sleep in one's 50s, 60s raises Alzheimer's risk |
Periodontitis raises dementia risk |
Brain scans from over 4,000 people, across the age range (9 months to 94 years) and including 1,385 Alzheimer's patients, has revealed an early divergence between those who go on to develop Alzheimer’s and those who age normally. |
A fruitfly study suggests that losing neurons is not necessarily a bad thing. |
Mobile game detects Alzheimer's risk |
Memory tests predict brain atrophy and Alzheimer's disease |
Data from the Harvard Aging Brain Study found that higher amyloid beta levels were associated with increasing anxiety symptoms in cognitively normal older adults. The results suggest that worsening anxious-depressive symptoms may be an early predictor of elevated amyloid beta levels. |
A study has shown new technology can quickly and non-invasively detect reduced blood capillaries in the back of the eye that are an early indication of Alzheimer's. |