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New way to diagnose age-related memory disorders

Dec 23, 2014 by

Researchers from UT at Dallas and the Center for Vital Longevity believe that we should be looking at the brain as a highly interactive network of nodes to help diagnose memory disorders in older adults....

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New technology sends antibodies through blood-brain barrier

Dec 19, 2014 by

The results of the Roche-designed Brain Shuttle technology, a means of efficiently transferring investigational antibodies from the blood through the blood-brain barrier into the brain, may be big news in the fight against Alzheimer’s. By transferring antibodies through the...

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Brain and cognitive decline protect against long-term decline...

Dec 17, 2014 by

Kessler Foundation researchers have found that brain reserve and cognitive reserve help protect long-term against cognitive decline. The study followed people over a course of 4.5 years and measured memory, cognitive efficiency, vocabulary, brain volume and disease progression on...

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Eating lots of trans fats is linked to poor memory in men

Dec 14, 2014 by

Ruling out other factors, scientists found that healthy working-age men who ate the most trans fats performed worse on memory tests than those that didn’t each much trans fats....

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TBI in older adults linked to greater dementia risk

Dec 13, 2014 by

For adults aged 55 and older, a traumatic brain injury may be linked to an increased risk of dementia....

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Coconut oil may help slow brain aging

Dec 9, 2014 by

Mice placed on a high-fat that included coconut oil experienced a delay in their brain’s aging....

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