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Highlights The hand-grip test was one of the functional tests that proved to be a reliable and valuable test measure for Parkinson’s disease. Patients with Parkinson’s disease ...
Highlights As adults age, they are at risk of “nutritional frailty,” which can compromise their ability to meet nutritional requirements. Improving dietary resilience and bette...
Highlights Delirium is a common condition that results in confused thinking and decreased awareness of the environment. Though delirium affects a quarter of the hospit...
Highlights Up until now, the research in to vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) has been relatively uncommon and insufficient. Insufficiency has affected the prevalence estimates,...
Highlights Decline of cognitive function has been found to be linked to cerebrovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis and cerebral amyloid angiopathy. Studies have ...
Highlights Older adults who scored high on cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) tests performed better on memory tasks. Fit older adults showed better memory performance and increas...
Highlights Combined with genetic factors, concussions may increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury may influence late-onset Alzheimer'...
Highlights Being inactive may completely nullify the protective effects of a healthy set of genes. Carriers of a variant of the apolipoprotein E genotype are more likely to dev...
Highlights Federal guidelines suggest achieving 150 minutes of moderate activity per week to prevent premature death and serious illness. Only one in ten older adults with arthr...
Highlights Prickly pear and brown seaweed are two ubiquitous Mediterranean plants that have neurodegenerative disease-curing properties. Alpha-synuclein, a protein in the plant ...
Highlights Older adults who live in long-term care facilities are at high risk for respiratory infections because their immune response tends to be weaker. Monthly high dose of...
Highlights: Mediterranean diet retains more brain volume in older people Fruits, vegetables, olive oil, beans, cereal grains, fish, lean meat, dairy and wine encompa...
Highlights Superagers were good at memory retention and had good attention skills The results of the study showed that superagers had a youthful brain that rese...
Highlights A gene called PHB2 (Prohibitin 2) is expressed in the inner membrane of the mitochondria, find scientists from the UT Southwestern Medical Centre. During degradati...
Highlights Scientists working on neurodegenerative diseases have identified a key protein, Nrf2, that prevents the accumulation of proteins that damage the neurons in the brain. Bot...
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