Long-Term Keto Diet May Damage Your Body
Summary: A new study reveals that while the ketogenic diet can prevent weight gain, it may cause severe…
First Signs of Multiple Sclerosis Found Years Before Symptoms
Summary: Researchers have traced the earliest stages of multiple sclerosis (MS), showing that the immune system begins attacking…
Can a Disconnected Brain Be Conscious?
Summary: A new study reveals that sleep-like slow-wave brain activity can persist for years in surgically disconnected brain…
New Alzheimer’s Mutation Weakens Brain’s Immune Defense
Summary: A new study has identified a mutation in the TREM2 gene that disrupts the brain’s ability to…
Genetic testing of common and rare variants in dementia patients from a memory clinic | Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy
2023 Alzheimer’s disease facts and figures. Alzheimers Dement 19, 1598–1695 (2023). Campion D, et al. Early-onset autosomal dominant…
Calcium Supplements Do Not Raise Dementia Risk
Summary: A long-term study of more than 1,400 older women found no evidence that calcium supplements increase dementia…
NLRP3 inflammasome and hearing loss: from mechanisms to therapies | Journal of Neuroinflammation
Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) affects approximately 1.5 billion people globally. Approximately 430 million of these patients require rehabilitation…
Sleep Disorders Predict Parkinson’s or Dementia Years Ahead
Summary: Two landmark international studies show that brain biomarkers can predict whether people with REM sleep behaviour disorder…
Infant Brain Gene Regulator May Predispose Adults to Dementia
Summary: A new study reveals that the brain’s vulnerability to disorders like multiple sclerosis and dementia may begin…
Scientists Uncover Overlooked Contributor to Dementia
Vascular dementia—damage from the brain’s smallest vessels—may be more varied, and more entangled with Alzheimer’s, than assumed. Credit:…