Alzheimer's & Cognition
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Social isolation linked to lower brain volume
Some studies have shown that social isolation is linked with depressive symptoms in older adults, and late-life depression has been associated...
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No cognitive benefit from meditation, learning a language?
The findings contradict the researchers’ earlier work that found mindfulness meditation boosted cognitive function in older adults with subjective...
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Cognitive benefit of highly touted MIND diet questioned
“Although we did not see a specific effect of the MIND diet, people in both groups improved their cognitive function.”
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Chronic constipation linked to cognitive decline
“These results stress the importance of clinicians discussing gut health, especially constipation, with their older patients.”
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Verbal working memory deterioration predicts relapse in remitted psychosis
Declines in verbal working memory were observed 2 months before a relapse in multiple models.
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‘Brain fitness program’ may aid memory loss, concussion, ADHD
Study findings “appear to show that multimodal interventions which are known to increase neuroplasticity in the brain, when personalized, can have...
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Promising phase 3 results for Alzheimer’s drug donanemab
The TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 2 study showed significant slowing of disease progression.
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U.S. states, counties with highest Alzheimer’s prevalence rates identified
“These new findings could help physicians treating or caring for minority populations “understand the landscape of what the disease looks like.”...
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Global burden of brain disorders surpasses cardiovascular disease and cancer
“The burden of brain conditions will increase as populations continue to grow and age.”
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Men and women react differently to acute stress
In men, stress rapidly improved the ability to downregulate emotional arousal via distraction that was fully mediated by cortisol.
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New consensus on biomarkers for diagnosis of neurocognitive disorders
Reducing the options available to clinicians when making a differential diagnosis into the current algorithm is a pragmatic approach.