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A complete transcriptomic analysis of astrocytes in Alzheimer's disease

An international group of researchers led by the UAB analyzed the genes that are expressed in neurons and astrocytes based on data from 800 individuals and compared what happens in Alzheimer's patients and in people without diagnosed dementia.

18 Mar 2022

Excessive daytime napping among older people may foreshadow dementia

Daytime napping among older people is a normal part of aging – but it may also foreshadow Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.

18 Mar 2022

Lithium use linked to reduced risk of developing dementia

Researchers have identified a link suggesting that lithium could decrease the risk of developing dementia, which affects nearly one million people in the UK.

17 Mar 2022

Behavioral psychedelics: Fostering changes in habits, behaviors to improve health and resilience

Despite their reputation as illicit drugs, psychedelics may find new, legitimate roles in treatment for anxiety, depression, stress disorders, addiction, and other mental and behavioral health problems.

16 Mar 2022

Brain-wide association studies need thousands of people to achieve higher reproducibility

As brain scans have become more detailed and informative in recent decades, neuroimaging has seemed to promise a way for doctors and scientists to "see" what's going wrong inside the brains of people with mental illnesses or neurological conditions.

16 Mar 2022

Neuropsychiatric symptoms develop predominantly due to Alzheimer’s pathology, not cognitive decline

Alzheimer's disease (AD) eventually leads to severe cognitive decline, but most affected individuals also develop distressing neuropsychiatric symptoms.

16 Mar 2022

Serious COVID-19 linked to higher risk of long-term adverse mental health effects

A new study published in The Lancet Public Health journal indicates that serious COVID-19 illness is linked to an increase in the risk of long-term adverse mental health effects.

15 Mar 2022

Brain scans show differences in gray matter density in young children with binge eating disorder

Brain scans of children ages 9-10 with a type of eating disorder that causes uncontrollable overeating showed differences in gray matter density compared to their unaffected peers, according to a USC-led study.

15 Mar 2022

Cognitive decline found to be the key factor in predicting life expectancy for Alzheimer's patients

Cognitive decline is the biggest factor in determining how long patients with Alzheimer's disease will live after being diagnosed, according to a new study from researchers at UT Southwestern.

15 Mar 2022

Prenatal mindfulness intervention may improve health outcomes in offspring, study shows

Infants whose mothers participated in a mindfulness-based program during pregnancy had healthier stress responses at 6 months old, a new UC San Francisco study found.

10 Mar 2022

Alzheimer’s disease protein helps skin cancer cells thrive when they metastasize to the brain

Amyloid beta, a protein known to build up in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease, also helps skin cancer cells thrive when they spread to the brain, a new study finds.

10 Mar 2022

Mental health service use for children, young people reduced over 40% in the early phase of COVID-19

A recently published extensive systematic review showed a 28% reduction in mental health service use in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic among children and young people.

10 Mar 2022

Evaluating the Seven Components of Wisdom

In this interview, we speak to Professor Dilip Jeste about what 'wisdom' actually is, how it can be assessed, and what this can mean for our health.

10 Mar 2022

Stress appears to have a negative effect on the learning of movements in mice

Stress seems to have a negative effect on the learning of movements - at least in mice. This is the conclusion of a recent study at the University of Bonn.

8 Mar 2022

Insurance status and residential zip codes linked with survival among breast cancer patients

Recent findings published in JAMA Oncology found that individual insurance status and residential zip codes were correlated with overall survival among women with early hormone receptor-positive breast cancer.

8 Mar 2022

Two new studies shed light on tau’s role in Alzheimer’s disease psychosis

Helping to advance Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research, scientists from The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research have published two studies supporting the connection of tau – a protein in the brain that forms neurofibrillary tangles that are a hallmark of AD and have been linked to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) from head trauma – with psychosis in AD.

8 Mar 2022

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A complete transcriptomic analysis of astrocytes in Alzheimer's disease

Excessive daytime napping among older people may foreshadow dementia

Lithium use linked to reduced risk of developing dementia

Behavioral psychedelics: Fostering changes in habits, behaviors to improve health and resilience

Brain-wide association studies need thousands of people to achieve higher reproducibility

Neuropsychiatric symptoms develop predominantly due to Alzheimer’s pathology, not cognitive decline

Serious COVID-19 linked to higher risk of long-term adverse mental health effects

Brain scans show differences in gray matter density in young children with binge eating disorder

Cognitive decline found to be the key factor in predicting life expectancy for Alzheimer's patients

Prenatal mindfulness intervention may improve health outcomes in offspring, study shows

Alzheimer’s disease protein helps skin cancer cells thrive when they metastasize to the brain

Mental health service use for children, young people reduced over 40% in the early phase of COVID-19

Evaluating the Seven Components of Wisdom

Stress appears to have a negative effect on the learning of movements in mice

Insurance status and residential zip codes linked with survival among breast cancer patients

Two new studies shed light on tau’s role in Alzheimer’s disease psychosis

Study to examine the risks for brain disorders from repetitive head impacts in contact sports

New insight about how optimism may promote good health as people age

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