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Known as the Prevention of Dementia by Intensive Vascular Care (pre-DIVA), the results of a cluster-randomized clinical trial showed that while the intervention did not reduce incidence of all-cause dementia, disability, or mortality, the results “do not rule out clinically meaningful effects in people with untreated hypertension who are adherent to the intervention,”
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And thanks to a new imaging system we can see now exactly how.
Researchers at Yale University have led development in to a new type of brain scan designed to detect changes in synapses associated with common brain disorders. Until now, researchers have only be able to detect these changes during autopsies, but by combining a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan with a new type of injectable tracer, Yale radiology and biomedical imagining professor Richard Carson was able to measure the synaptic density in a living brain.
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Alzheimer’s may result from the brain’s effort to fight off infections. While that hypothesis is controversial and highly speculative at this point, it could dramatically alter the way researchers and doctors work to treat and prevent the degenerative disease.
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Nice article in the Washington Post to give us some pointers.
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I am not getting my hopes up high yet but here is the claim:
This time, researchers from the University of Glasgow, in conjunction with the Hong Kong Univeristy of Science and Technology, have discovered that one injection of a protein called IL-33 can reverse Alzheimer’s-like symptoms and cognitive decline in mice. The protein is actually made by the body itself as part of its immune defence against serious infection and disease, ones that affect the brain and spinal cord.
After the injection, the mice instantly improved their cognitive function and memory, restored to that of a normal mouse within just one week of having the injections.
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