Part of the study was led by ageing and dementia specialist Dr Sarah-Naomi James, who wanted to look at ways to keep people ...

Genes play a role in whether someone gets Alzheimer's, but new research from Northeastern University psychology and ...

Q. I am 78 years old and occasionally forget the names of people I know. It happens most frequently when I am introduced to ...

A team of scientists has unveiled how the hippocampus orchestrates multiple memory processes, including encoding new information, forming memories, and retrieving them. A team of scientists from ...

Sleep disordered breathing and worse oxygenation is associated with brain changes 10 years later in Hispanic and Latino adults.

If hippocampal atrophy is present but lacks additional ... biomarkers like amyloid PET scans or cerebrospinal fluid tests. Dementia - the most common form of which is Alzheimer's - comes on ...

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Dr. Sarah-Naomi James, Lead Author, UCL Dementia Research Centre and MRC ... tended to have less shrinking in the brain's memory centre, the hippocampus. This area is often the first brain region ...

This can impair the brain’s hippocampus, a critical structure for ... according to the findings published in Alzheimer’s and Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association.

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