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Undiagnosed glucose intolerance common with early Alzheimer’s...

Aug 15, 2013 by

A neurologist was surprised to find that instead of just a few participants, almost half (43%) of the participants in his study of people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s also had impaired glucose tolerance or diabetes. And this was...

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Frontotemporal dementia causes loss of emotional content/color of memories...

Aug 14, 2013 by

In a study by NeuRA (Neuroscience Research Australia), research may have found why FTD patients often can’t remember emotionally charged events, like weddings or funerals. It seems that the orbitofrontal cortex links emotional and memories, and if the front...

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Alzheimer’s decreases cancer risk and vice versa

Aug 13, 2013 by

In people over 60, researchers found that having cancer makes you less likely to also have Alzheimer’s disease and vice versa. The risk of cancer was cut in half for those with AD, and the risk of AD was...

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Women have more decline in aging and Alzheimer’s

Aug 12, 2013 by

Women have a higher rate of cognitive decline and regional brain loss from aging and early Alzheimer’s than men. But men and women didn’t differ in the level of biomarkers of Alzheimer’s pathology, which may indicate that for women,...

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Paeonol may be able to treat neurogenerative diseases

Aug 8, 2013 by

Neuroresearchers pretreated organotypic hippocampal slice cultures and primary microglial cells from a rat’s brain30 minutes to adding lipopolysaccharide. They found that the paeonol has neuroprotective abilities and reduces the release of neurotoxic and proinflammatory factors in microglial cells. This...

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Brain-stimulating activities at any age may preserve memory

Jul 31, 2013 by

New research indicates that reading books, writing and participating in brain-stimulating activities at ANY age may preserve memory. People who participated in mental activity both early and late in life had a slower rate of decline in memory. In...

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