Cataract Surgery May Help Prevent Dementia
New research indicates cataract surgery may lower dementia risk. As the population ages, the number of people in the United States with vision loss…
New research indicates cataract surgery may lower dementia risk. As the population ages, the number of people in the United States with vision loss…
Despite the absence of disease-modifying treatments, the dementia rate in developed Western countries has actually declined in recent years. In fact, one study showed…
You may have read about it in the New York Post: “Scientists pinpoint personality traits that increase risk of Alzheimer’s.” A recent study published in…
Using the blue device (pictured) that performs the ultrasensitive proximity extension assay technology, Professor Nancy Ip Yuk-Yu and her team have developed a blood…
A study finds that people who struggle to hear over background noise had as much as a 91-percent higher risk of dementia. Thomas Littlejohns,…
Nikki Schultek, founder of the global medical research consortium Intracell Research Group, takes a close look at how the COVID-19 pandemic may prompt a…
In villages dotted across the Amazon rainforest in the Bolivian lowlands, roughly 16,000 Tsimane people subsist largely by farming, fishing, hunting and foraging. The…
From the nature of Alzheimer’s to the solutions available for controlling it, here are five common misconceptions to dispel. Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading…
Nicotine, a natural product of various plants including the tobacco plant, is notorious for its addictive properties in tobacco products like cigarettes. But the…
Scientists predict that access to education will reduce one’s risk of dementia, while other lifestyle factors, like smoking and diet, will contribute to the…
When a patient goes into the doctor’s office with symptoms like brain fog, memory loss, or loss of focus, dementia is often near the…
Hollywood power couple Seth Rogen and his wife Lauren Miller Rogen are raising awareness about Alzheimer’s through comedy. On a more serious note, their…
Amid growing evidence of the neurological complications of COVID-19, which range from loss of sense of taste and smell, to ‘brain fog,’ to stroke…
As part of our LiveTalk series, Being Patient spoke with Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen about their mission to raise awareness about Alzheimer’s…
The idea that a common viral or bacterial infection could lead, decades later, to the onset of Alzheimer’s was proposed over 30 years ago….