Now, several publications and presentations at the recent Alzheimer’s Association International Conference have demonstrated that blood tests measuring amyloid and tau proteins have become much more ...

Researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine continue to find a higher risk of dementia among those who suffer 'intracranial ...

The glucoregulatory functions of pancreatic islets are affected by their surrounding niche and spatial organization. Here, bioengineered stem-cell derived islet niches use bioprinting-based ...

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) can be hard to diagnose, because it is an uncommon type of dementia and does not cause memory problems at first. However, there are some ways to diagnose FTD including ...

Loss of inhibitions is more common in certain types of dementia, such as frontotemporal dementia (FTD) which causes damage to the frontal lobes in the brain. Advice Tag: Advice. If the person behaves ...

INTRANASAL oxytocin administered every third day is well tolerated and leads to a modest reduction in apathy among individuals with frontotemporal dementia, new research has shown. Apathy is a ...

“They could even contribute to protein aggregation linked to dementia,” says lead researcher Matthew Campen. “But we just don’t know yet.” The research team analysed brain tissue samples ...

Brain tissue from people who had been diagnosed with dementia had up to 10 times as much plastic as brains from everyone else. The study did not answer whether higher levels of plastic in the ...

including cancers and dementia. The correct type of tissue is needed to estimate biological age accurately, according to the study led by Abner Apsley, doctoral candidate in the Penn State ...