Alzheimer's & Cognition
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Rally seeks to restore funding for biomedical research
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Feds bolster efforts to understand the human brain
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FDG-PET strongest independent predictor of Alzheimer's dementia in MCI
Major finding: In predicting short-term incident dementia in mild cognitive impairment, positivity to FDG-PET had the highest positive likelihood...
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Dementia costs top cancer, heart disease
Major finding: The total cost of dementia to the U.S. economy ranged from $159 billion to $215 billion in 2010. Data source: An 856-person subset...
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Novel exercise program may help dementia patients
Major finding: After 18 weeks, participants in the PLIÉ intervention exercise group had a decline of 4.6 points on the Alzheimer’s Disease...
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Mental, physical activity enhance cognitive function in elderly
Major Finding: All the study subjects showed significant improvement in cognitive function after 12 weeks, regardless of whether they had...
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Anhedonia may play individual role in Alzheimer's challenges
Major finding: Working memory was worse in patients with only anhedonia vs. those with only depression (mean scores of 3.7 vs.
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Early behaviors may signal progression to Alzheimer's
Major finding: In a study of people at 50% risk for developing familial Alzheimer’s disease (FAD), gene mutation carriers with a Clinical Dementia...
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Genotype plays role in schizophrenia response to folate
Major finding: Among patients homozygous for the 484T allele, the benefit of folate and vitamin B12 supplements was a –0.59 change in SANS score...
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Hypertension, genetics interact to increase brain amyloid deposition
Major Finding: Healthy middle-age and older adults who had at least one apo E–epsilon-4 allele and uncontrolled hypertension had significantly...