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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Alzheimer’s disease may begin its biological progression far earlier than symptoms suggest, with subtle shifts in brain and blood markers emerging decades in advance.
Scientists are uncovering a hidden phase of Alzheimer’s disease that may begin far earlier than most people realize. Long before memory loss becomes noticeable, subtle biological changes could already be underway — potentially starting in a person’s late 50s, according to new research from Mayo Clinic.
The study, published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, tracks when key changes in the brain and blood begin to speed up over a person’s lifetime. The findings offer clues about the most effective timing for detection and prevention efforts.
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AARP CEO Myechia Minter-Jordan and Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement founder Maria Shriver discuss brain health backstage at the Cleveland Clinic Global Women’s Health + WAM Forum.
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