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Alzheimer’s disease is one of the cruelest conditions a person can develop. And even with recent advances, there’s only so much that can be done once its symptoms emerge. Research out this week might highlight a critical and previously missed factor driving the disease, one that could even lead to new treatments. Scientists at Harvard Medical School led the study, …

To find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, we need to understand how and where it gets started, and new research suggests we might be looking in the wrong place. Scientists from the US and Germany have linked genetic risk for Alzheimer’s and other brain diseases to the blood-brain barrier – the blood vessels and immune cells that surround and protect …

Facebook Tweet Email Link The human brain shrinks as it ages, affecting the ability to remember — it’s part of life. Yet there are a lucky few, called “SuperAgers,” who possess a brain that fights back. For these people, memories stay as sharp as they were 30 or more years in the past. Carol Siegler, who lives in the Chicago …

Facebook Tweet Email Link In a major new finding almost a decade in the making, researchers at Harvard Medical School say they’ve found a key that may unlock many of the mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease and brain aging — the humble metal lithium. Lithium is best known to medicine as a mood stabilizer given to people who have bipolar disorder …

Phyllis Jones spent nearly 10 years watching her mother succumb to Alzheimer’s.  Decades earlier, her mother had taken care of her grandmother the same way, as she was also struck by the most common form of memory-robbing dementia.   Now 66, Jones was headed toward being caught in the generational cycle herself. Like 100 million Americans, the Illinois grandmother-of-two was prediabetic and …

The president this weekend repeated his worthwhile promise to get pharma companies to lower the cost of medications for Americans, who often have to pay much more for certain drugs than people abroad. But the actual amount of the “tremendous drop” in cost that Trump boasted about had critics scratching their heads. “You know, we’ve cut drug prices by 1,200, …

The world is getting hotter – this is what it is doing to our brains  BBC Tips for handling extreme heat with dementia  Vida Newspaper Extreme heat elevates Alzheimer’s mortality risk; what Southern Utahns need to know  St. George News Source link

All living tissues give off photons as excited molecules shed excess energy. The phenomenon is so subtle – roughly a million times dimmer than the threshold of human vision – that researchers call it ultra-weak photon emission (UPE). Because the brain consumes an exceptionally high metabolic budget and is packed with photoactive compounds such as flavins and serotonin, scientists have …

By almost any measure, living through a once-in-a-century pandemic emergency that killed 7 million people — including 1.1 million in the U.S. alone — was a harrowing experience. Now, there’s new evidence suggesting our brains bear the scars of that ordeal. Living through the pandemic aged our brains faster — even among people who never became sick with COVID-19, according …

New study finds certain lifestyle changes can help improve our brains as we age  NPR Trying to keep your brain young? A big new study finds these lifestyle changes help  NPR Can diet and exercise lower the risk of Alzheimer’s?  WBUR Healthy Lifestyle Can Help People at Risk for Dementia, Study Finds  The New York Times Worried about Alzheimer’s? Start walking, according to a …