A diet that’s rich in plant-based foods can be healthier for you and your brain — even if you start it later in life, a new study found.
Eating high-quality plant foods like vegetables, whole grains, fruits, nuts and legumes was associated with a reduced risk for Alzheimer’s and dementia in the study, published April 8 in Neurology, the journal for the American Academy of Neurology.
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Scientists at Oregon State University have captured something researchers have long struggled to see: the real-time chemical interactions that help drive Alzheimer’s disease. By watching how metal ions—especially copper—trigger harmful protein clumping in the brain, the team uncovered a clearer picture of how the disease develops at a molecular level.
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There is an urgent need to expand access to Alzheimer’s disease testing, Schaeffer Institute Founding Director Dana Goldman writes in an op-ed for RealClearHealth.
Goldman argues that new blood tests that detect Alzheimer’s disease earlier and more accurately will enable intervention at an earlier stage, better care planning, and more effective use of emerging therapies.
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Increasing the number of steps you take every day may slow cognitive decline in older adults who already have biological signs of early Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new observational study.
The presence of beta amyloid and tau proteins are hallmark signs of Alzheimer’s. Amyloid can begin to accumulate in the spaces between neurons as early as one’s 30s, potentially affecting communication between brain cells. As amyloid deposits grow, they can lead to a rapid spread of abnormal tau proteins, which form tangles inside brain cells, thus killing them.
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Doctors are only just getting to grips with LATE – a newly recognised form of cognitive decline behind up to one in five dementia cases
When a parent or grandparent begins forgetting names, misplacing objects or repeating the same stories, the diagnosis most people expect is Alzheimer’s disease. For decades, Alzheimer’s has dominated public understanding of dementia, becoming almost shorthand for memory loss itself.
But that assumption is increasingly being challenged. Neurologists now know that a significant number of people with Alzheimer’s-like symptoms actually have a different condition altogether – one that most families, and even many doctors, have only recently heard of.
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An 18-year nationwide cohort study of over 3.5 million adults in Switzerland published in Environment International by Nekane Sandoval-Diez et al. found an association between long-term residential exposure to the magnetic field EMF emitted by power lines and an increased risk of death from Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
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