Complex Work May Reduce Negative Effects of Bad Diet on Cognition
New data suggests that people whose work requires complex thinking and activities are better able to withstand the onset of...
Category: Research
New Study Suggests Treating Alzheimer’s Increases Survival and Lowers Cost of Care
Important health policy and health economic research findings were reported last week at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2016 (AAIC...
Researchers Successfully Decrease Use of Antipsychotics in Dementia Care
In just six months, Australian researchers were able to eliminate psychotics from the treatment of 75 percent of patients studied,...
How Far We’ve Come in Alzheimer’s Research
A worldwide quest is under way to find new treatments to stop, slow or even prevent Alzheimer’s. Because new drugs...
Genetics in Alzheimer’s Disease
Is Alzheimer’s inherited? In this video, John Hardy, Ph.D., of the National Institute on Aging, explains how genes cause disease,...
Insulin and Alzheimer’s Disease
Nearly 21 million Americans have diabetes, a disease that makes the body less able to convert sugar to energy. According...
Inflammation and Alzheimer’s Disease
Inflammation is a very complex set of processes that are geared towards identifying, attacking and removing pathogens. In other words, the human body uses inflammation to rid itself of foreign invaders such as bacteria and viruses. These stimulate inflammation when they’re present in the brain or anywhere in the body where they shouldn’t be, and inflammatory response molecules move in that area to attack them.
Watch: 2016 Funded Researcher Elena Portacolone
Sociologist Elena Portacolone, assistant professor at the Institute for Health & Aging and Pepper Center Scholar at UCSF, is very...
