How To Fight Loneliness
Loneliness is bad for your health. The work of John Cacioppo and others has proven this connection repeatedly over the last decade, finding links between loneliness and blood pressure, sleep quality,...
View ArticleShedding Light on a New Mechanism Behind Alzheimer’s Disease
Dense tangles and plaques of abnormal proteins in the brain that characterize Alzheimer’s disease New findings about a key enzyme in the development of Alzheimer’s could point to new way of targeting...
View ArticleAre the rates of dementia in the U.S. really falling? And how is education...
The numbers for Alzheimer’s disease and dementia are staggering. One in nine adults in the U.S. age 65 and older—more than five million people—has Alzheimer’s. This number is predicted to reach almost...
View ArticleFrom molecule to medicine: pursuing insight and new treatment for Alzheimer’s...
Postdoctoral Scholar Myles Minter, PhD, and Sangram S. Sisodia, PhD, Director of the Center for Molecular Neurobiology For a new drug to become a medicine, the process is long and expensive. The...
View ArticleElderly who have trouble identifying odors face risk of dementia
Jayant Pinto, MD, professor of surgery, with one of the Sniffin’ Sticks used to test a patient’s ability to identify scents for his research on aging. (Robert Kozloff/The University of Chicago) A...
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