THE LINK BETWEEN EDUCATION AND ALZHEIMER’S

Alzheimer; News from the web:

Is there a link between an individual’s educational level as well as his or her academic performance and Alzheimer’s disease? Researchers are exploring this possibility with some going as far back as grade school performance for answers.

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Check your lifestyle for Alzheimer’s risk patterns

Alzheimer; News from the web:

A team from the University of California, San Francisco, has crawled through thousands of Alzheimer’s studies, selected a few hundreds that had quality information and came up with the factors most correlated with Alzheimer’s.

Check the article for the list, you have this mostly under your own control!

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Can Frankenstein help Alzheimer’s?

Alzheimer; News from the web:

A near-complete human brain comparable with that of a five-week-old foetus has been grown in a laboratory dish.

The brain ‘organoid’ was created from reprogrammed skin cells and is about the size of a pencil eraser.

Scientists hope the lumpy mass of functioning nerve cells and fibres will prove to be a valuable research tool for non-animal testing of new drugs and investigating brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s.

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