New research sponsored by the UKs Alzheimers Society suggests that having an infection like a cold or stomach bug may hasten memory loss in people with Alzheimers disease.
The research was the work of Dr Clive Holmes of the University of Southampton in the UK, and colleagues, and is to appear as a paper this week [...]

Two new genes associated with Alzheimers disease have been discovered in a British scientist led genome study.
In a separate study French researchers revealed links between a third gene and the disease.
The British study, led by Professor Julie Williams, is the largest ever Alzheimers genomewide association study and involved 16,000 individuals. Using a two [...]

US neurologists who analyzed brain scans of elderly people discovered that being overweight is linked to brain tissue loss, or what one researcher described as “severe brain degeneration”.
The study was the work of senior author Dr Paul Thompson, a professor of neurology at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and lead author Cyrus A. [...]

As more people live well into their 80s and 90s, its reassuring to know that most people get happier as they age and exert more emotional control than younger adults, according to researchers who spoke at the 117th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.
“Life expectancy changed because people changed the way they lived,” said [...]

Rice University physicists have written the next chapter in an innovative approach for studying the forces that shape proteins the biochemical workhorses of all living things.
New research featured on the cover of the Journal of Physical Chemistry illustrates the value of studying proteins with a new method that uses the tools of nanotechnology to [...]

Dr. Zsuzsanna Nagy of the University of Birmingham presented data from a clinical study, funded by Cytox Limited, demonstrating that a simple bloodbased biomarker discriminated between patients with Alzheimers disease (AD) and control subjects. The findings were statistically highly significant, and the test discriminated between the two groups with 80% sensitivity and 80% specificity. The [...]