"Angry" Immune Cells Linked To Memory Loss
The recent finding that the brain's immune system is linked to Alzheimer's lends support to the idea that pathogens such as viruses could be one cause of the disease.
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Newly Approved Therapy For Parkinson’s Could Be A Game-Changer
A new, novel therapy for people suffering with Parkinson’s disease is drug free and requires no anesthetic, no incision, and no hospital stay.If that sounds too good to be true, then you’ll want to
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Your Brain Has A Superpower That Keeps Your Memory Strong
Your doctor probably hasn’t told you, but your brain has a superpower that allows your memory to stay healthy at any age—as long as you keep fueling the process. That power is the ability of neurons
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Why More Young People Are Getting Alzheimer’s Disease
If you think Alzheimer’s disease happens only to older people, think again. A Chinese teenager has become the world’s youngest person to be diagnosed with the condition.Although Alzheimer’s can
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Boost Your Memory With These Magic Words
Wouldn’t it be amazing if a few magic words could help you strengthen your memory?Well, scientists now say that speaking the words of a second language are the only magic words you’ll ever need! In
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Do Marriage And Kids Ruin Your Memory?
The research is clear that staying socially engaged throughout middle age and beyond helps protect your memory against Alzheimer’s disease. But what about getting married and having a family?Being
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This Can Trigger Your Alzheimer’s Gene
Researchers made a surprising finding about another risk factor for Alzheimer’s. And the results of this brand-new research will have you tightening your helmet when you’re biking and doing what you
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Is Your Brain More Vulnerable To Alzheimer’s?
Memory loss is the main symptom we associate with Alzheimer’s disease. What this looks like in real life is that dementia sufferers often can’t recall recent events and learning new information
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Can AI Reveal If You’re Going To Get Alzheimer’s Disease?
The mind-blowing Artificial Intelligence-powered ChatGPT, which can produce a human-like response to any task that involves language, has been making headlines since its recent release because of its
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Is This The REAL Cause Of Alzheimer’s Disease? (And What You Can Do About It…)
For years Alzheimer’s disease researchers have pointed to tau proteins and amyloid beta proteins as drivers of the brain plaques behind the disease. Of course, natural doctors aren’t convinced that
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Discovered: New Secret To Maintaining A Strong Memory For Life
There’s no single “key” that can explain how the body and brain age. The biological changes that accompany aging involve multiple processes that lead to increasing levels of systemic inflammation and
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The “Zombie” That’s Threatening Your Memory
You probably think zombies are only made up for scary television, movies, and books. However, that’s not entirely true…There’s a real-life zombie that can weaken your memory and lead you down the
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Can A Laser Beam Save Your Memory From Aging?
This must surely be the holy grail of non-invasive therapies for memory loss.You don’t feel a thing. This therapy doesn’t generate any tingling or even heat—which is surprising because it’s a laser.
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Strengthening This Brain Region Is a Key to Better Memory and Better Health
The part of your brain called the hypothalamus plays a central role in your daily life. It keeps tabs on your daily rhythms – regulating appetite, metabolism, sexual behavior, the release of
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Cutting-Edge Brain Therapy Lifts Lagging Memory At Any Age
A brain training program using computers has been shown to reduce the risk of dementia in seniors. So has stimulating the brain with a mild electrical current.What would happen if doctors used both
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Why Not Everyone With Brain Plaque Gets Alzheimer’s Disease
Reducing thick, sticky plaques made up of amyloid-beta proteins in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients has been the focus of scientists for decades. And yet, they have almost nothing to show for it--
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What If Alzheimer’s Isn’t A Brain Disease? A Canadian Scientist’s New Discovery…
Has Dr. Donald Weaver lost his mind? How can he possibly suggest Alzheimer’s isn’t a brain disease?But hold on. What he’s saying about the cause of Alzheimer’s disease makes more sense than appears
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Zapping The Brain Boosts Memory
A new technology could come to the rescue of people who are suffering either short-term or long-term memory loss. Even more exciting, it can restore memory in a way that’s fast, safe, non-invasive,
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Claims of Fraud In Alzheimer’s Research
It’s one of the most cited scientific articles on Alzheimer’s ever published - a breakthrough 2006 study that identified amyloid beta star 56 as the cause of memory loss in mice.This single study led
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Can One Brain Scan Diagnose Alzheimer's?
A patient with suspected Alzheimer's may undergo a range of tests and examinations before a diagnosis is ever reached. This is time consuming, and, in the end, the diagnosis might not even be
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New Treatment For Alzheimer’s Disease?
For decades scientists have argued that the protein amyloid beta triggers the process that leads to Alzheimer’s.Others question this and suggest other underlying causes. These include abnormal tau
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The Brain Health Secret to Successfully Ending Addiction
What if you were a doctor and you could successfully treat only 25 percent of the patients who came to you with a particular problem? You’d probably conclude that the condition was a very challenging
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Revolutionary “Brain Pacemaker” Reverses Symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease
A hospital in England is the first in the world to implant a deep brain stimulation (DBS) device to deliver electrical impulses to areas of the brain impacted by Parkinson’s.It’s the smallest DBS
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New Nose Spray Shows Promise as an Alzheimer’s Treatment
When beta amyloid and tau proteins go rogue, they form the characteristic brain plaques and tangles thought to be a cause of Alzheimer's.But inflammation is also an early feature of the disease and
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The Aging Brain Keeps Up with Younger Brains Well into Middle Age
It's usually assumed - and backed up by a large body of research - that thinking speed peaks when we're in our twenties, after which it's downhill all the way. But a massive new study using machine