30 January 2018
Ohio State Study of Brain Pacemaker Shows Promise in Slowing Decline of Alzheimer's
While most treatments for Alzheimer's disease focus on improving memory, researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center conducted a study aimed at slowing the decline of problem solving and decision-making skills in these patients. Thin electrical wires were surgically implanted into the frontal lobes of the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease to determine if using a brain pacemaker could improve cognitive, behavioral, and functional abilities in patients with this form of dementia.
15 January 2018
People with Down Syndrome develop symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease 20-30 years before others
A new multi-centre study, led by researchers from King’s College London and UCL, has found that people with Down Syndrome (DS) develop earlier onset of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), with an average age of diagnosis between 55 and 56. This is 20 to 30 years earlier than other individuals who are at risk of being diagnosed with AD. It also suggested that individuals with DS may decline faster than other individuals with AD once they are diagnosed.
5 December 2017
Lithium in water associated with slower rate of Alzheimer’s disease deaths
Trace elements of lithium in drinking water can slow death rates from Alzheimer’s disease, Brock University research has found. Rates of diabetes and obesity, which are important risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease, also decrease if there is a particular amount of lithium in the water, says the study, published recently in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
28 November 2017
Second Phase 3 Study Results for LMTX® published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease
TauRx Therapeutics Ltd today reported the full results from its second Phase 3 clinical study of LMTX®, the first tau aggregation inhibitor in Alzheimer’s disease, published online in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
28 November 2017
Severity of Post-Operative Delirium Relates to Severity of Cognitive Decline
Researchers from the Harvard affiliated Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research (IFAR), in collaboration with scientists from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical School (HMS), and Brown University, have found increasing evidence that the level of delirium in post-surgical patients is associated with the level of later cognitive decline in those same patients. Findings from this study were published today in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
13 November 2017
Memory Complaints and Cognitive Decline: Data from the GuidAge Study
A new study in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease by researchers at the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse identifies a 5-item version of the McNair and Kahn Scale for predicting cognitive decline.
15 September 2017
Decreased Glucose Metabolism in Medial Prefrontal Areas is Associated with Nutritional Status in Patients with Prodromal and Early Alzheimer’s Disease: results from MULNIAD study
A new study from the Multimodal Neuroimaging for AD Diagnosis (MULNIAD) study, which is a prospective study implemented at the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology (NCGG), provides that hypometabolism in the medial prefrontal areas is specifically associated with Alzheimer’s disease-related nutritional problems, and decrease in fat mass may have a key role. This study is published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
6 September 2017
Overcoming Barriers to Recruiting Blacks/African-Americans for Dementia Research
In a paper published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, lead author Eseosa Ighodaro, PhD, encouraged fellow researchers to address the challenges associated with studying dementia in Blacks/African-Americans. The paper, co-authored by researchers at the University of Kentucky's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, the University of Washington, Rice University, and Rush University Medical Center, is a clear-eyed look at the barriers that hinder minority recruitment for dementia research and the misconceptions that potentially distort research outcomes through unintended bias.
28 August 2017
Is telomere length associated with the cognitive response to a lifestyle intervention?: Supporting evidence from the FINGER trial
A new study from the FINGER trial team shows that participants with shorter leukocyte telomere length (LTL) had more pronounced benefits on cognition following the multidomain lifestyle intervention.
7 August 2017
Women Have More Active Brains Than Men
In the largest functional brain imaging study to date, the Amen Clinics (Newport Beach, CA) compared 46,034 brain SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) imaging studies provided by nine clinics, quantifying differences between the brains of men and women. The study is published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
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