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Researchers Discover New Way to Monitor and Prevent Nerve Cell Deterioration after Brain Injury
CLEVELAND—Violent blows or jolts to the head can cause traumatic brain injury (TBI), and there are currently about five million people in the U.S. living with some form of chronic impairment after suffering a...
Mayo researchers, collaborators identify ‘instigator’ gene associated with Alzheimer’s disease
Newswise — JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In a new paper published in Nature Communications, Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators report the protein-coding gene SERPINA5 may worsen tau protein tangles, which are characteristic of Alzheimer's disease,...
Mild Cognitive Impairment Counterattack
Mild cognitive impairment must be counterattacked early, explains a new video from MCI911.comNewswise — The brain degeneration of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) may be halted or even reversed if it is attacked promptly at its...
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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...