Prisoners in US suffering dementia may hit 200,000 in 10 years—many won’t even know...
Prison officials are bracing for a silver tsunami that will flood correctional facilities with elderly and often vulnerable prisoners.
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UTEP Researchers Uncover New Brain Mechanisms in Fruit Flies That May Impact Future Learning
Newswise — EL PASO, Texas – A research team from The University of Texas at El Paso has made strides in understanding how memories are formed through the brain mechanisms of fruit flies, findings...
Why Do More Women Have Alzheimer’s than Men? It’s Not Just from Living Longer
Newswise — MINNEAPOLIS – Middle-aged women are more likely than men to have changes in the brain related to Alzheimer’s disease, as detected by imaging, even when there are no differences in thinking and...
Blood Vessel Defects in Eyes May Foretell Alzheimer’s
Newswise — LOS ANGELES (June 24, 2020) - Alzheimer's disease in its early stages affects the integrity of small blood vessels in the retinas of patients, according to a recent study led by Cedars-Sinai....
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Take it from the rats: A junk food diet can cause long-term damage to...
A new USC-led study on rats that feasted on a high-fat, sugary diet raises the possibility that a junk food-filled diet in teens may...
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...