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The association of dietary patterns with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia symptomology

A new paper discusses the impact of diet on the risk of AD, in which researchers describe the interrelationship between specific nutrients, dietary patterns, other risk factors for AD, and psychosocial factors driving these patterns.

24 Jul 2023

World Population Day: Growing population strains healthcare systems

July 11 is World Population Day, an annual event dedicated to raising awareness of issues surrounding the growing population, whose total reached 8 billion last year.

24 Jul 2023

Could brain age be used to measure disease stratification in Huntington's disease?

Study evaluated the biological age of the brain as a disease stratification measure for Huntington's disease (HD).

24 Jul 2023

IU team makes significant contributions to constructing a Human Reference Atlas

Katy Börner's team from the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering's Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center has made significant contributions to constructing a Human Reference Atlas and has led or co-authored six research articles in a just-released HuBMAP package in Nature.

21 Jul 2023

American Heart Association invests in the future of heart and brain health research

More than 100 scientists from across the U.S. are receiving special grants to support their research work in finding innovative solutions to fight heart disease and stroke.

21 Jul 2023

Digital technologies for effective geriatric care: successes, challenges and future perspectives

Researchers discussed the current achievements, challenges, and potential opportunities in using digital technologies.

21 Jul 2023

LifeLongFit project receives funding to explore the effects of mild stress on healthy aging

Dr. Maria Ermolaeva from the Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena has received the coveted ERC Consolidator Grant from the EU, in the sum of two million euros.

20 Jul 2023

Study illuminates why obesity makes ovarian cancer more deadly

Most women with ovarian cancer are diagnosed with the most advanced form of the disease. Less than a third of those diagnosed with the disease survive five years later. As the third most common type of gynecological cancer, it led to more than 200,000 reported deaths globally in 2020 alone, according to a recent study.

20 Jul 2023

Volunteering in late life associated with better executive function and episodic memory

Volunteering in late life is associated with better cognitive function — specifically, better executive function and episodic memory — according to research presented today at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2023, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and online.

20 Jul 2023

Study: Many older adults with mild cognitive impairment are still driving

The majority of older adults with cognitive impairment are still driving, despite concerns raised by caregivers and others, a Michigan Medicine study in a South Texas community finds.

20 Jul 2023

Sweat-based wearable technologies as a potential monitoring tool for patients with metabolic syndrome

The opportunities and challenges of sweat-based wearables for monitoring metabolic syndrome.

20 Jul 2023

Food for thought: Mediterranean-DASH intervention shows positive impact on brain health

Researchers investigated the longitudinal relationships between adherence to the Mediterranean-dietary approaches.

20 Jul 2023

Sense of smell may hold clues to Lewy body pathology: new evidence emerges

Researchers evaluated the impact of Lewy body (LB) positivity (+) on clinical outcomes such as cognition and smell among cognitively.

20 Jul 2023

Cognitively stimulating activities reduce dementia risk in the elderly

Researchers investigate the relationship between social networking, leisure activities, and dementia risks in older adults.

20 Jul 2023

UC Davis MIND Institute receives 24th consecutive year of NIH funding for FXTAS research

It's been 22 years since UC Davis MIND Institute Medical Director Randi Hagerman and her husband, researcher Paul Hagerman, discovered the neurodegenerative condition called FXTAS (fragile X-associated tremor ataxia syndrome).

19 Jul 2023

Study explores how ultraviolet radiation can alter the microstructure of human skin

Received wisdom says that staying out in the sun too long can make your skin tougher over time. Think about the "leathery" complexions of farmers, road crews and others who work long hours outdoors, or someone who spends too much time in tanning booths, or too much time on the beach during the summer.

19 Jul 2023

Aging News and Research

The association of dietary patterns with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia symptomology

World Population Day: Growing population strains healthcare systems

Could brain age be used to measure disease stratification in Huntington's disease?

IU team makes significant contributions to constructing a Human Reference Atlas

American Heart Association invests in the future of heart and brain health research

Digital technologies for effective geriatric care: successes, challenges and future perspectives

LifeLongFit project receives funding to explore the effects of mild stress on healthy aging

Study illuminates why obesity makes ovarian cancer more deadly

Volunteering in late life associated with better executive function and episodic memory

Study: Many older adults with mild cognitive impairment are still driving

Sweat-based wearable technologies as a potential monitoring tool for patients with metabolic syndrome

Food for thought: Mediterranean-DASH intervention shows positive impact on brain health

Sense of smell may hold clues to Lewy body pathology: new evidence emerges

Cognitively stimulating activities reduce dementia risk in the elderly

UC Davis MIND Institute receives 24th consecutive year of NIH funding for FXTAS research

Study explores how ultraviolet radiation can alter the microstructure of human skin

Northwestern Medicine scientists discover new therapeutic target for Parkinson’s disease

Gut bacteria may play a role in cognitive decline

Breast cancer treatment linked to faster biological aging

Older adults see the benefit in cognitive screening, but many have not been tested

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

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