California Wildfires: How Smoke Harms Your Body
As wildfires blaze across California, here is how inhaling smoke could affect your health, from itchy eyes to dementia risk.
New evidence links dementia to problems with the brain's waste clearance system
A study from the Keck School of Medicine of USC has tested a biomarker linked to vascular dementia across four separate ...
Should California’s right-to-die law expand to include people with dementia? OC legislator wants to consider it
State Sen. Catherine Blakespear wants to engage stakeholder groups to discuss possible changes to the law, but she faces ...
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New Biomarker Links Brain Waste Clearance to Vascular Dementia
Summary: A new study has identified a biomarker, DTI-ALPS, which connects glymphatic system dysfunction to vascular dementia.
Should California’s right-to-die law expand to include people with dementia? One legislator wants to consider it
State Sen. Catherine Blakespear wants to engage stakeholder groups to discuss possible changes to the law, but she faces ...
Doctors Share The 14 Things You Can Do To Lower Dementia Risk Right Now
Studies show that being physically active can help lower your risk of dementia. “Daily physical exercise—such as 20-30 ...
Taking Vitamin D Could Help Prevent Dementia, Recent Study Suggests: Here's Why
Vitamin D also helps clear beta amyloid, a protein that plays a role in Alzheimer’s disease, Merrill points out. This is “the ...
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Blood test could help track Alzheimer's disease progression and severity
Declining blood levels of two molecules that occur naturally in the body track closely with worsening Alzheimer's disease, ...
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Robot dog meant to comfort dementia patients turns heads at CES
Jennie,' a lifelike robotic puppy from Tombot, was designed for people living with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia who are unable to look after a real animal on their own. Olivia Zollino ...
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USC study finds new evidence linking dementia to problems with the brain’s waste clearance system
A new study from the Keck School of Medicine of USC has tested a biomarker linked to vascular dementia across four separate groups and proposed an explanation for how cognitive impairment arises. The ...
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Potential new therapeutic targets for Huntington's disease
A research team has discovered intricate molecular mechanisms driving the RNA processing defects that lead to Huntington's disease and link HD with other neurodegenerative disorders such as ...
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Research offering more insight into how to reduce the risk of dementia
January is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month and in the Cochrane and Temiskaming districts alone, there are more than 2,400 people ...