African Americans at Highest Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease
Newswise — ST. LOUIS — Now that the holiday season has concluded, perhaps you’ve noticed the warning signs of Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia in aging family members. George Grossberg, M.D., the Samuel W....
Having a Poor Score on a Simple Memory Test May Be Linked to Alzheimer’s...
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL 4 P.M. ET, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2022Newswise — MINNEAPOLIS – Among people with no memory or thinking problems, having a poor score on a simple memory test may be linked...
Blood test for Alzheimer’s highly accurate in large, international study
Newswise — A blood test developed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has proven highly accurate in detecting early signs of Alzheimer’s disease in a study involving nearly 500 patients from...
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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...