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Two new studies are reporting on an ongoing long COVID research project investigating the persistent effects of COVID-19 on cognition in the months after acute disease. The University of Cambridge-led research found many long COVID patients are experie… Continue reading Long COVID study indicates “something concerning is happening”
Napping for longer than one hour or several times a day could be an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease according to new research. It’s suggested excessive daytime napping shares a bidirectional relationship with cognitive decline, both reflecting and shaping changes in the brain.
Category: Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle
Tags: Sleeping, Sleep, Alzheimer’s Disease, Dementia, Aging, Brain, UCSF, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, New Atlas Audio
Continue reading Excessive daytime napping could be early sign of Alzheimer’s disease
Are you one of those lucky people who seem to be able to thrive on between four and six hours of sleep per night? You may be what UC San Francisco researchers have dubbed an “elite sleeper,” and a new study reports the same genes associated with healthy short sleep patterns may also slow the onset of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
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Tags: Sleep, Sleeping, Genetics, Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, Brain, UCSF, New Atlas Audio
Continue reading “Elite sleeper” gene study offers hope for novel dementia treatment
Striking new research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences estimates lead exposure, primarily from car exhaust, has negatively affected the IQ of about half the population of the United States. The study calculated c… Continue reading Childhood lead exposure cut IQ of over half of US population, study finds
A landmark imaging study has offered a unique insight into the effects of mild COVID-19 on the brain by investigating scans from hundreds of people taken before and after viral infection. The research indicates the impact of COVID-19 on the brain is bo… Continue reading Landmark study finds “significant” brain changes after mild COVID-19
A large study of more than 36,000 high-quality MRI brain scans has found that drinking four units of alcohol a day – two beers, or two glasses of wine – causes structural damage and brain volume loss equivalent to 10 years of aging.Continue ReadingCate… Continue reading Two beers a day damages human brains as much as 10 years of aging
New research presented at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology, Prevention, Lifestyle & Cardiometabolic Health Conference 2022 has found women who experience very early menopause are significantly more likely to develop dementia in later life.
Category: Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle
Tags: Aging, Women, Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, Brain, Menopause, Hormone, New Atlas Audio
Continue reading Increased dementia risk in women linked to early menopause
For decades those with multiple sclerosis have suggested dairy products can exacerbate the symptoms of their disease. Now researchers from the Universities of Bonn and Erlangen-Nuremberg have demonstrated exactly how this could be occurring, by finding… Continue reading Researchers demonstrate how milk can trigger MS symptoms
The ability to stimulate and or control cells in the brain could provide us with powerful new ways to understand and treat neurological disorders, and we’re starting to see some very interesting ways this might be achieved. Scientists at University Col… Continue reading Magnetic microparticles allow remote control of select brain cells
Nature is a never-ending source of inspiration for scientists, but our artificial devices usually don’t communicate well with the real thing. Now, researchers at Linköping University have created artificial organic neurons and synapses that can integra… Continue reading Artificial neurons connect to biological ones to control living plants