MRI reveals effects of risk factors on vulnerable brain regions
MRI shows the effects particular risk factors such as diabetes, air pollution, and frequency of alcohol use have on "higher-order" brain regions located in the cerebral cortex, researchers have found.
A team led by Jordi Manuello, PhD, of the University of Oxford in the U.K. reported that these risk factors further increase an individual's vulnerability to conditions such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. The group's findings were published March 27 in Nature Communications.
"[Our] results provide a comprehensive picture of the role played by genetic and modifiable risk factors on these fragile parts of the brain...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 27, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Subspecialties MRI Neuroradiology Source Type: news
Alzheimer's disease: Eat a certain diet to prevent dementia - 27 percent lower risk
Research has found that a Mediterranean diet has reduced dementia risks in the elderly. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - March 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Why Alzheimer's Drug Approval Delay? $3 Billion in DMD Gene Therapy; ADHD Prevalence
(MedPage Today) -- Why is donanemab, an investigational anti-amyloid agent for early Alzheimer's disease, facing an approval delay? (The Guardian)
Early use of erenumab (Aimovig) showed sustained efficacy compared with oral migraine preventives... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - March 26, 2024 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Alzheimer's Prevalence Predicted to Double by 2050 Alzheimer's Prevalence Predicted to Double by 2050
The rising prevalence of AD comes at the same time as a growing shortage of neurologists and geriatricians is expected to create " dementia neurology deserts " in some states by 2025.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines)
Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines - March 26, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Exposing patients to flashing lights could help to halt dementia
A combination of the lights and low-pitched sounds is thought to work by flushing out proteins in the brain believed to be implicated in Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Is that brain fog menopause or Alzheimer's? This Peninsula company says it can find out
A three-minute test can better define whether or not symptoms women are experiencing are cognitive declines linked to Alzheimer's. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 25, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Ron Leuty Source Type: news
Viagra linked to 50 percent reduction of Alzheimer's risks in new study
Researchers reported seeing a 30 percent to 54 percent reduction in the incidence of Alzheimer's disease in people who regularly consume the erectile dysfunction drug. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - March 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Alzheimer ’s ‘breakthrough’ stalls: why a much-hyped drug is facing approval delays
The benefits of drugs such as donanemab, aducanumab and lecanemab are proving harder to quantify than potential harms, experts sayIt was heralded in news articles as a “breakthrough”, a “turning point” and a “gamechanger” for Alzheimer’s disease. Some experts went so far as to call the drug, donanemab, the “beginning of the end” for the debilitating condition.Pharmaceutical company Eli Lillyin May 2023 released data from a clinical trial they said showed donanemab slowed cognitive and functional decline in people with early symptomatic Alzheimer ’s disease by 35% over 18 months.Continue reading... (Sour...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 23, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Melissa Davey Medical editor Tags: Dementia Alzheimer's Health Medical research Australia news Source Type: news
Trump Avoids Talk of Father's Alzheimer ’s; Teens Smell Like Goats; AI Drugs a Bust?
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While former President Trump attacks President Biden as being "cognitively impaired," he avoids talk about his own father's battle with Alzheimer's disease. (Washington... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - March 22, 2024 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Breakthrough discovery could offer hope of cure for Alzheimer's disease
The research could pave the way for a cure, scientists have said. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - March 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Alzheimer ’s drug maker outlines plan to raise stock price
The company was recently warned it was at risk of being delisted. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - March 20, 2024 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Ashley Portero Source Type: news
Nearly 7 Million Americans Have Alzheimer's, and Caregivers Are Stressed
WEDNESDAY, March 20, 2024 -- Nearly 7 million American seniors are living with Alzheimer’s dementia, placing a huge strain on both personal caregivers and the U.S. health care system, according to a new Alzheimer ' s Association report.
The... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - March 20, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
As Alzheimer ’s deaths rise, diagnosis is often delayed
As Alzheimer’s disease claims the lives of increasing numbers of people in the U.S., detection and diagnosis of the condition aren’t keeping pace with the challenge, a new report shows. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 20, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Greater sense of life purpose improves brain health
A greater sense of one's purpose in life improves brain health as we age, researchers have reported.
Diffusion-weighted MRI showed positive associations in both white matter and the right hippocampus, the latter of which is an area of the brain that "retains the capacity to grow and adapt through old age," wrote a team led by Ajay Kumar Nair, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The research was published March 4 in Frontiers in Psychiatry.
"Our findings suggest pathways through which an enhanced sense of purpose in life may contribute to better brain health and promote healthy aging," the group wrote.
A robust ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 20, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Clinical News Subspecialties MRI Neuroradiology Source Type: news
Epstein-Barr and MS; When Lewy Pathology Starts; Alzheimer's Blood Test Assessed
(MedPage Today) -- Antibody response to anti-Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA-1) may be a risk factor for multiple sclerosis (MS), a small study suggested. (JAMA Neurology)
ND0612, a subcutaneous levodopa-carbidopa infusion for Parkinson... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - March 19, 2024 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
