Using an AI tool, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have analyzed brain images from 70-year-olds and estimated their brains’ biological age. They found that factors detrimental to vascular health, such as inflammation and high glucose levels, are associated with an older-looking brain, while healthy lifestyles were linked to brains with a younger appearance. The results are…
Here’s some food for thought. Dr. Jonathan J. Rasouli, a board-certified spinal neurosurgeon at Northwell Health in New York, says his mom’s dinner recipe is full of ingredients that are great for brain health — and eating it’s a smart step for preventing dementia and things like memory loss, fatigue and brain fog. Dr. Jonathan…
All of our brains inevitably shrink with age — a change that is most accelerated and profound in the nearly 7 million Americans currently living with dementia. While there isn’t a way to reverse this loss in brain volume, we can potentially curb it by prioritizing our mental and physical health. Dr. Arjun Masurkar, a cognitive…
The risk of developing dementia later in life is strongly predicted by a person’s cognitive ability, functional limitations and physical health as many as 20 years before onset of the illness, according to a new RAND report. Related new research found that early detection of cognitive impairment helps people to take mitigating actions to prepare…
The most effective drug for Alzheimer’s will be blocked for use on the NHS on Wednesday. Regulators are expected to declare the new treatment for the disease safe for use but the rationing body for the health service will immediately rule that it is too expensive for NHS patients. The decision is set to disappoint…
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If a treatment were available, a significant majority of people would get tested for dementia, says charity Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI). ADI, based in London in the UK, works with dementia and Alzheimer’s associations in more than 100 countries. It asked a lot of people the testing question: 40,000 in 166 countries. Hamid Sohrabi is…
Globally, about 55 million people suffer from dementia, with 70% of these cases linked to Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s is a type of degenerative dementia, which means it gradually worsens over time. It primarily affects recent memory, orientation, and visuospatial functions.Types of Degenerative Dementias • Alzheimer’s Disease: The most common form, characterized by memory loss and…
According to new research published in the journal Alzheimer’s Research and Therapy, adopting certain healthy lifestyle habits can significantly improve brain function in patients with mild cognitive impairment or early dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease. This is the first time that a sustained lifestyle intervention, without drugs, has shown to have an impact on the…
After his grandmother died of complications related to dementia, Dr. Jake Goodman vowed to learn everything he could about the debilitating condition. “Dementia sucks,” Goodman, a psychiatry resident physician in Miami, declared in a TikTok last month. “Now that I’m in my final year of psychiatry training, I have treated countless people with dementia —…