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Trillions of microbes in the human digestive tract actively prime the immune system before a stroke, helping determine how severely the brain suffers when blood flow stops. Doctors have long treated stroke as an isolated plumbing crisis inside the skull,…
Older adults who nap frequently or fall asleep unintentionally during the day may have a higher chance of developing dementia, a new study suggests. The finding does not mean that taking a nap causes dementia. Instead, changes in daytime sleep…
New research has found that gut bacteria and chemicals could be used to identify people with mild cognitive impairment and help predict how quickly their memory and thinking might decline. In what is thought to be the first study of…
About 11% of the U.S. population 65 and older has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia that results in memory loss and cognitive impairment, according to the Alzheimer's Association. And the World Health Organization predicts the number…
A report on dementia published in the medical journal The Lancet in 2024 introduced 14 risk factors that can be addressed for prevention or improvement. Among them, the largest proportions were accounted for by hearing loss and high LDL cholesterol Still, it…
Updated September 1, 2026 | Reviewed by Davia Sills The most famous scene in the movie Good Will Hunting is the “It’s not your fault” scene. Will Hunting, played by Matt Damon, is a genius whose genius is largely stuck inside him, along…
Care home residents living with dementia were taken on a nostalgic “trip down memory train” through the picturesque Dee Valley. Around 50 residents from Pendine Park’s care homes in Wrexham travelled on the first dedicated Memory Train service between Llangollen and…
The problem with most neurodegenerative diseases is not that they are hard to understand once diagnosed. It is that they are typically diagnosed long after the damage has become significant. Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and the other conditions in this category share…
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Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on Wednesday shared interim data from an ongoing Phase 1/2a clinical trial for ARO-MAPT, an investigational RNA interference therapy targeting Alzheimer's disease and other tau-related disorders. These early findings provide the first clinical validation of a novel platform…