Physical Fitness Linked to Lower Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL 4 P.M. ET, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2022Newswise — MINNEAPOLIS – People who are more physically fit are less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than people who are less physically fit,...
Discovery of a new ALS and dementia disease mechanism raises treatment hopes
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New Study Shows Research Participation is Associated with Greater Use Of and Adherence to...
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AAN Issues Evidence-in-Focus Article on Aducanumab
EMBARGOED UNTIL 4 P.M. ET, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2022Newswise — MINNEAPOLIS – To help neurologists, patients and their families understand the current evidence on the use of aducanumab to treat Alzheimer’s disease, the American...
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Take it from the rats: A junk food diet can cause long-term damage to...
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Repurposing non-pharmacological interventions for Alzheimer’s disease through link prediction on biomedical literature
The complete workflow is depicted in Fig. 1. To investigate the association between NPIs and AD, we initially conducted preprocessing and integration of biomedical triples...
Degenerative Dementias and Their Medical Care in the Movies
Compared with other neurologic problems, few films have been dedicated to degenerative dementia. To our knowledge, this is the first systematic review about the...