An opinion paper published by University of Montana professor Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas MD, PhD identifies air pollution risk exposures and the development of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in exposed populations ..read more

Uniting NSW.ACT and UNSW Sydney’s Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) teamed up to co-author a research paper about the impact of person-centred intervention on the quality of healthcare and clinical outcomes for people living with dementia at Uniting’s War Memorial Hospital with successful results – winning praise, and publication, from the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. The research paper concluded the person-centred care model significantly improved clinical outcomes for people living with dementia, after hospitilisation ..read more

The scientist of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Malaga José Luis Royo has coordinated a study that summarizes eight years of research and brings together 100 multidisciplinary specialists, identifying a mutation that alters Alzheimer's disease progression. This work, published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, has characterized a genetic variant in SIRPβ1 gene, which affects the way in which the immune system fights against beta-amyloid deposits, the cause that leads to this pathology ..read more

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New Cleveland Clinic-led research points to sildenafil (Viagra) as a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. The study provides evidence from computational models, insurance claims data and observations from brain cells in Alzheimer’s patients ..read more

I want to comment on the paper by Costa and colleagues on a Bayesian re-analysis of the Lecanemab phase 3 Clarity trial [1]. Costa and colleagues had already very meritoriously presented a Bayesian meta-analysis of the Aducanumab Phase 3 trials [2 ..read more

I am writing to you regarding your recent call for feedback on the manuscript titled “Aluminum and Amyloid-in Familial Alzheimer’s Disease” by Mold and colleagues [1] that you have submitted on PubPeer (https://pubpeer.com ..read more

People who have had the herpes virus at some point in their lives are twice as likely to develop dementia compared to those who have never been infected. A new study from Uppsala University confirms previous research on whether herpes can be a possible risk factor for dementia ..read more

Agent Orange, an herbicide used during the Vietnam War, is a known toxin with wide-ranging health effects. Even though Agent Orange has not been used for decades, there is increasing interest in its effects on the brain health of aging veterans. A new study by scientists at Brown University reveals the mechanisms by which Agent Orange affects the brain and how those processes can lead to neurodegenerative diseases ..read more

A study has found a strong link between Alzheimer's disease and the daily consumption of meat-based and processed foods. Researchers at Bond University came to the conclusion after examining the diets of 438 Australians - 108 with Alzheimer's and 330 in a healthy control group. Those diagnosed with Alzheimer’s tended to regularly eat foods such as meat pies, sausages, ham, pizza and hamburgers. They also consumed fewer fruit and vegetables such as oranges, strawberries, avocado, capsicum, cucumber, carrots, cabbage and spinach ..read more