Sanford Burnham Prebys professor awarded $2.9 million to explore new answers to old questions...
Newswise — Sanford Burnham Prebys professor Yu Yamaguchi has been awarded a $2.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the role of heparan sulfate (HS) in Alzheimer’s disease. HS is...
Growth charts for the brain help to understand mental illness
Researchers from Radboudumc have developed a set of growth charts for the brain.
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Early detection of dementia
Newswise — Forgetfulness and confusion can be signs of a currently incurable ailment: Alzheimer's disease. It is the most common form of dementia that currently affect around 50 million people worldwide. It mainly afflicts...
Maria Shriver and The Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement Join Cleveland Clinic
Newswise — Thursday, February 3, 2022, CLEVELAND: Cleveland Clinic and Maria Shriver, founder of The Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement (WAM), announced a ground-breaking partnership today aimed at further addressing and reducing women’s risk for Alzheimer’s...
Wordle, Brain Games and Brain Health
Ulrich Mayr Robert and Beverly Lewis Professor in Neuroscience, University of Oregon Neuroscientist Ulrich Mayr studies the aging of the mind and brain changes in psychological functioning. He can talk about the impacts of...
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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...