Alzheimer’s disease: is diet key to dementia?
A new decade-long study of older adults in China has found that a healthy lifestyle, in particular a good diet, is associated with slower memory decline. Researchers say… read more.
A new decade-long study of older adults in China has found that a healthy lifestyle, in particular a good diet, is associated with slower memory decline. Researchers say… read more.
Social lifestyle determinants, including social isolation, are associated with neurodegeneration risk factors, according to a new study published PLOS ONE by scientists at McGill University, Canada. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is… read more.
For frontline healthcare workers, the mental health impact from the pandemic is extending beyond career burnout. Much of the attention on the mental toll suffered by frontline workers… read more.
With falls causing millions of injuries in older adults each year, it is an increasingly important public health concern. Older adults living with dementia have twice the risk of falling… read more.
The proportion of opioid overdose deaths involving buprenorphine, a medication used to treat opioid use disorder, did not increase in the months after prescribing flexibilities were put in… read more.
Scientists have worked out why common anti-depressants cause around a half of users to feel emotionally ‘blunted’. In a study published today, they show that the drugs affect… read more.
Six minutes of high-intensity exercise could extend the lifespan of a healthy brain and delay the onset of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. New… read more.
There is new evidence that a 50-year-old blood pressure drug could find new purpose as a treatment to mitigate the often life-altering effects of increasingly prevalent PTSD, scientists… read more.
Being on parental leave is protective against poorer mental health particularly among mothers, with evidence of this beneficial effect continuing in later life, according to a systematic review… read more.
An international team of researchers including Sofya Kulikova, Senior Research Fellow at the HSE University-Perm, found that ketamine, being an NMDA receptor inhibitor, increases the brain’s background noise, causing higher… read more.
The artificial intelligence algorithms behind the chatbot program ChatGPT — which has drawn attention for its ability to generate humanlike written responses to some of the most creative… read more.
As concerns about youth mental health, school shootings, and other forms of violence prompt more school systems to conduct mental health screenings, a UCR-led analysis is urging school… read more.
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