Having an optimistic outlook on life may be good for your brain, according to a new report. The study found that older adults who looked on the bright side of life were less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia as they aged.
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Glial-to-neuron conversion therapy decreases inflammation and restores the brain-blood barrier in Alzheimer’s disease model macaques.
In search of an innovative medicine, a group of scientists at Jinan University in Guangdong, China, has developed a disease-modifying therapy that, when tested in a non-human primate Alzheimer’s model, has shown improvements in both biological markers and clinical aspects of the disease. “These outcomes offer new hope for the tens of millions of Alzheimer’s patients worldwide,” says Wenliang Lei, principal investigator at Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Institute of CNS Regeneration (GHMICR) in Jinan University, and co-corresponding author of the study published in Advanced Science.
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CBD may be doing far more than just easing pain or anxiety — new research suggests it could help fight Alzheimer’s disease by calming the brain’s runaway immune response. In experiments using Alzheimer’s mice, scientists found that inhaled CBD reduced key drivers of neuroinflammation, a damaging process increasingly linked to memory loss and brain degeneration.
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) represents a major global health burden, affecting an estimated 69 million people annually. The greatest burden of TBI-related injury is observed in older adults, largely arising from falls. Contact sports, road traffic accidents, and interpersonal violence are also major contributors to TBI across ages and populations.
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Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, according to the National Institutes of Health. At Colorado State University, master’s student David Crosby has earned first place at the university, state and regional levels of the Three Minute Thesis competition, or 3MT, for explaining his research on why this brain disorder causes people to lose their ability to think, remember and reason.
He asked the audience to imagine living in a house where decades of trash has accumulated.
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