Tag: dementia
The debate about brain clearance and dementia
Maiken Nedergaard, a neuroscientist at the University of Rochester in US, has claimed that people who report six hours or less of sleep a night are more likely to develop dementia later. In her latest paper, Nedergaard said that “we have mice that sleep completely normally”. She added that the fibers mounted in a hook can’t be carried on a mouse’s head.
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Recent gaffes by Biden and Trump may be signs of normal aging
During his presidential campaign, US President Donald Trump had said he had taken a cognitive test in Montreal,Quebec, to check for dementia and Alzheimer’s. However, a Stanford University neurology professor said that the 10-minute screening test is not in-depth look at cognitive function, adding that it’s important to measure a person’s cognitive performance against their performance earlier in life.
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Your blood is indicative of how your organs are aging
The Knight-ADRC cohort is an NIA-funded study of clinical dementia subjects and age-matched controls. Among individuals with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma data, Alzheimer’s (AD) cases corresponded to those with a diagnosis of dementia of the Alzheimer’s type using criteria equivalent to the National Institute of Neurological and Communication Disorders and Stroke- Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association for probable AD58.
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