A scientific team at SLU in Uppsala Sweden and University of Cambridge has discovered a molecule that can prevent a toxic protein involved Alzheimer’s disease from building up in the brain.
The new molecule - designed by scientists in Sweden - is a small protein known as an Affibody (an engineered binding protein). In this new […]

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A new report has found that fat people are at greater risk for developing Alzheimer’s.
In the current online edition of the journal Human Brain Mapping, Paul Thompson, senior author and a UCLA professor of neurology, and lead author Cyrus A. Raji, a medical student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and colleagues compared […]

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A new tool can help predict whether people age 65 and older have a high risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Research on the tool is published in the May 13, 2009, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
It could be used to identify people at high risk for dementia […]

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According to a new study from Columbia University Medical Center researchers, a history of diabetes and elevated levels of cholesterol, especially LDL cholesterol, are associated with faster cognitive decline in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
These results add further evidence of the role of vascular risk factors in the onset and progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
Findings indicate that […]

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Drinking apple juice helped mice deliver above average performances in maze trials, which maintained the same level of mental fitness that was otherwise observed as these mice aged.
Thomas B. Shea, of the Centre for Cellular Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts, commented that “these findings provide further evidence linking nutritional and genetic risk factors for age-related neuro […]

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Red wine is not only beneficial for cardiovascular health, but can also fight Alzheimer’s disease. Now, a group of scientists has explained how the drink reduces the incidence of the disease.
We are all aware of the “French paradox,” wherein French people, despite consuming food high in cholesterol and saturated fats, has long had low death […]

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Cognitive and social activity in midlife may significantly reduce men’s risk of dementia, says a U.S. study that followed 147 male twin pairs for 28 years.
Among the twins, higher cognitive activity scores predicted a 26 percent reduction in risk for developing dementia first. Twins who developed dementia first had significantly lower total cognitive activity scores […]

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Living with a spouse or a partner decreases the risk of developing Alzheimer’s and other dementia diseases. This according to a study by Krister Hakansson, researcher in psychology at Vaxjo University and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
The results show that people living with a spouse or a partner in midlife ran a 50 per cent lower risk […]

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A  new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has cited that calcium may hold the key to understanding Alzheimer’s disease.
Researchers have shown that mutations in two proteins associated with familial Alzheimer’s disease disrupt the flow of calcium ions within neurons. The two proteins, called PS1 and PS2 (presenilin 1 and […]

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Alzheimer’s disease patients with higher physical fitness had larger brains compared to mild Alzheimer’s patients with lower physical fitness, according to a study published in the July 15, 2008, issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology
The results remained the same regardless of age, gender, severity of dementia, physical activity and […]

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