Obama’s healthcare goals have been controversial at best, and although anti-smoking campaigns and other public health and safety awareness drives have been successful, it’s always somewhat dubious when government starts creating grand plans and lofty g…
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania researchers have discovered a mechanism involving the neurotransmitter dopamine that switches fruit fly behavior from being active during the day (diurnal) to nocturnal. This change parallel…
Efforts to understand how the aging process affects the brain and cognition have expanded beyond simply comparing younger and older adults. “Everybody ages differently. By looking at genetic variations and individual differences in markers of vascular …
Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers have succeeded in developing a biosynthetic polyphenol that improves cognitive function in mice with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The findings, published in a recent issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, provide …
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have gained insight into the mechanism by which a pathological brain protein called tau contributes to the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative disorders. This finding, publis…
A study published online in The Laryngoscope reveals that current studies do not support the use of olfactory identification tests (smell tests) for predicting Alzheimer’s dementia. Alzheimer’s is a progressive disease that causes loss of brain functio…
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have unraveled a process by which depletion of a specific protein in the brain contributes to the memory problems associated with Alzheimer’s disease. These findings provide new insights into the disease’s develop…
A study published in Archives of Neurology demonstrated that the connection between two cerebrospinal fluid proteins that are linked to Alzheimer’s disease in clinically and cognitively normal older patients shows that amyloid-β (Aβ)-associated …
Teasing out the exact type or types of dementia someone suffers from is no easy task; neurodegenerative brain diseases share common pathology and often co-occur. Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania are con…
The risk of Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline could be reduced by engaging in daily physical activity, even in those who are older than 80 years. Results of the researchers study from the Rush University Medical Center are published online in …
