An Australian-led international research has found that frailty increases a person’s risk of developing dementia.
The study, which was published Tuesday, November 12, by the University of Queensland, analyzed data collected between 1997 and 2024 from 29,849 people aged 60 and over in the United States and Britain. Of those, 3,154 developed dementia, reports Xinhua news agency.
Animal studies have shown the potential of a drug commonly used to treat glaucoma — a chronic eye disease — in fighting against dementia.
Researchers in the UK Dementia Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, focused on a class of drugs known as carbonic anhydrase inhibitors — of which the glaucoma drug methazolamide is a part.
A new mice study may have found an association between an enzyme and memory loss in elderly people, a development that can someday pave the way for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
The brain’s capacity to incorporate new information gets weaker with old age. Along with finding it difficult to remember new information, the elderly also find it hard to modify their memories when new details emerge.
An Indian doctor has stated that dementia caused by fluid accumulation in the brain can be treated with minor surgical procedures. The medical expert said a case was successfully treated at a private hospital in Hyderabad, Telangana.
Dementia commonly appears as people age. Symptoms include repeatedly calling family members on the phone despite having already done so, forgetting what was eaten for lunch or dinner after a short while, and not recognizing familiar people. Many children perceive these behaviors as stubbornness and get frustrated with their elders.
According to a new study, a one per cent reduction in deep sleep per year for people over the age of 60 results in a 27 per cent increased risk of dementia. The study also implies that improving or sustaining deep sleep, commonly known as slow-wave sleep, in later life may aid in the prevention of dementia. Associate Professor Matthew Pase of the Monash School of Psychological Sciences and the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health in Melbourne, Australia, conducted the study, which was published in JAMA Neurology.
Fluctuating blood pressure can increase the risk of dementia and vascular problems in older people, a new study by Australian researchers has warned. Short blood pressure (BP) fluctuations within 24 hours as well as over several days or weeks are linked with impaired cognition, according to University of South Australia (UniSA) researchers who led the study.
A study suggested that dementia may be more likely to affect people with poor bone health or density than those with high bone density. The findings of the study were published in the online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
In a new health research update in a recent large-scale study, taking vitamin D supplements may help prevent dementia. Researchers at the University of Calgary’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute in Canada and the University of Exeter in the UK explored the relationship between vitamin D supplementation and dementia in more than 12,388 participants of the US National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center.
Researchers from Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, have found that different patterns of BMI changes and the resulting obesity over one’s life course may be an indicator of a person’s risk for dementia.
A new study has showed that damage to the brainstem — the brain’s ‘control centre’ — is behind the long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects of severe Covid-19 infection.
Researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford used ultra-high-resolution scanners that can see the living brain in fine detail to observe the damaging effects Covid in the brains of 30 people who had been admitted to the hospital with severe infection early in the pandemic.
In a promising breakthrough, an international team of researchers from the UK, U.S., and Japan has developed a new Alzheimer’s drug that effectively prevents the build-up of Tau proteins — a key driver of neurodegeneration.
The drug, a peptide inhibitor called RI-AG03 blocked both Tau aggregation ‘hotspots’ for the first time in both lab and fruit fly studies.
Playing with grandkids can boost the mental well-being of older adults, even as age is the biggest risk factor for dementia and other neuro disorders like Alzheimer’s disease, according to research on Wednesday, August 21.
The proportion of adults over 60 is expected to double and that of adults over 80 is expected to triple by 2050, indicating that the world’s population is ageing rapidly.
Obesity and smoking are key triggers for Alzheimer’s disease, said health experts while stressing the need to control both, especially in young adults. Alzheimer’s is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, which is a serious public health concern.
The disease leads to memory loss, cognitive decline, and inability to perform daily tasks.
Researchers have gleaned new insights into India’s evolutionary history after conducting the largest genome study of its kind.
Scientists analyzed more than 2,700 modern Indian genomes from 17 states, including DNA from individuals from most geographic regions, speakers of all major languages, tribal and caste groups.
Given an estimated 138 million adults over 60 years of age in India, these estimates suggest approximately 24 million and 9.9 million older adults in India are living with mild and major neurocognitive disorders, respectively, revealed the study published in the journal PLOS One.
Seventy-eight students of Indian origin are among 300 scholars honored with the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors. The Society for Science (the Society) announced the top 300 scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2024 on January 10. The 300 scholars will be awarded $2,000 each and their schools will be awarded $2,000 for each enrolled scholar.
Women with heart-healthy diets during middle age were about 17 per cent less likely to report memory loss and other signs of cognitive decline decades later, a new study has revealed. Led by researchers from New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine, the new findings suggest that a mid-life lifestyle modification — adoption of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, or DASH diet — may improve cognitive function later in life for women, who make up more than two-thirds of those diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
A study led by an Indian American researcher has found that a few minutes of data recorded from a single electrode placed on top of the head may be sufficient to predict thinking problems, including dementia, in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Nandakumar Narayanan from the University of Iowa and his team of scientists believe that the new finding can help improve diagnosis of cognitive disability in Parkinson’s disease (PD).
Indian American Raleigh Dewan, founder of SteadiSpoon, was declared one of the winners of the fifth TiE University Global Pitch Competition held parallelly with The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) TiEcon 2023 last month. SteadiSpoon is an affordable, self-stabilizing eating device that empowers people suffering from Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases regain agency, autonomy, and dignity.
Dr. Sampat Shivangi, a physician and a veteran leader of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), was awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award by the Xavier University School of Medicine at the Xavier’s Campus in Aruba on May 19, 2023.
According to a recent study, having both diabetes and tooth loss correlates to lower cognitive function and quicker cognitive decline in older persons. The findings of the study published in a special edition of the Journal of Dental Research focused on ageing and oral health.
While Alzheimer’s disease is long known to afflict the aged, Chinese researchers recently claimed a 19-year-old boy — the youngest-ever patient — was diagnosed with the disease. Faulty genes can likely make the disease more common in youngsters, doctors said on Monday. Alzheimer’s — the most common cause of dementia — causes the brain to shrink and brain cells to eventually die. The disease is known to severely impact memory, thinking, and behavior.
India’s healthcare sector can be transformed into a world-class endeavor by the optimum utilization of information technology, medicine, finance, banking, and politics. Dr. Sampat Shivangi, a physician, an influential Indian-American community leader, and a veteran leader of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) while addressing the delegates during the Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas in Indore, India on January 9, 2023, spoke on the way forward for healthcare facilities in India and the role of the diaspora in promoting the healthcare ecosystem.
Health update: According to a new study by Ohio State University, middle-aged smokers are considerably more likely than nonsmokers to experience memory loss and confusion, and the chance of cognitive decline is lower for those who have quit smoking recently.
The results of the study, published in Neuron by a research team based at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory in Cambridge, MA, come from experiments in mice, but provide a physiological and mechanistic basis for prior observations in human patients: the degree of diminished brain rhythm synchrony between counterpart regions in each hemisphere correlates with the clinical severity of dementia.
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