Alzheimer's & Cognition
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COVID smell loss tops disease severity as a predictor of long-term cognitive impairment
Severity of anosmia, but not clinical status, significantly predicted cognitive impairment.
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Smell loss may be a biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease risk
Rapidly deteriorating performance on serial smell tests not only predicted Alzheimer’s disease among cognitively normal adults, but corresponded...
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Novel guidance informs plasma biomarker use for Alzheimer’s disease
The Alzheimer’s Association offers guidance for biomarker use in clinical trials and memory clinics.
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ICU stays linked to a doubling of dementia risk
“Health care providers caring for older patients who have experienced a hospitalization for critical illness should be prepared to assess and...
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Hospital programs tackle mental health effects of long COVID
Patients never hospitalized for COVID-19 still may have persistent symptoms like fatigue, cognitive problems, and mood disorders.
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Metabolic syndrome raises dementia risk in under-60s
A large follow-up study found a link between dementia risk and the number of components of metabolic syndrome a person has a midlife.
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Understanding the neuroscience of narcissism
This study integrates both grandiose and vulnerable narcissism into a common framework with cognitive components connected to these traits.
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PTSD may accelerate cognitive decline over time
The associations of PTSD with cognitive change remained evident after additional adjustment for behavioral factors and health conditions.
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Scientists find brain mechanism behind age-related memory loss
The findings may not only help us improve dementia treatments but even prevent or delay a loss of thinking skills in the first place.
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Can bone density scans help predict dementia risk?
“What’s novel about this research is that it’s looking at AAC specifically, which can be identified through a relatively simple test that is...
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More evidence the flu vaccine may guard against Alzheimer’s
“The influenza vaccine may alter the brain’s immune cells such that they are better at clearing Alzheimer’s pathologies, an effect that has been...