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This is essential for developing treatments that are truly effective,» is how Professor Emrah Düzel, site speaker of the DZNE in Magdeburg and director of the Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research at the University of Magdeburg, explains the background to the study.

At 1:30 p.m., Sen. David Carlucci will tour the Center for Dementia Research at the Nathan Kline Institute for a demonstration of the Zeiss LSM 880 Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope and Leica LMD7000 — Laser Capture Microdissection System.

Not exact matches

Alice Cadman, Director of Business Development and Marketing at Leatherhead Food Research discusses links between nutrition and cognitive health and performance, set against the context of rising cases of dementia and an ageing population.

Five multi-year grants were recently awarded to three research scientists at the Institute's Center for Dementia Researcresearch scientists at the Institute's Center for Dementia ResearchResearch (CDR).

Organiser: Miss Sarah Hambridge and Prof. Anthea Innes, Dementia Institute, Bournemouth University Date: 9 November 2013 Venue: Littledown Leisure Centre, Chaseside, Bournemouth, BH7 7DX Audience: General audience Further information: please contact Sarah Hambridge This release draws on a range of research projects currently being undertaken at the Dementia Institute, Bournemouth University.

But that outlay for dementia research falls well short of those announced in recent years by the United States and the United Kingdom and even lags Canada's promise at the G8 dementia summit 2 years ago in London to significantly ramp up its investment in research on neurodegenerative diseases as part of a global bid to find a cure for dementia by 2025.

For instance, researchers at IBM Research in Haifa, Israel, are developing a five - minute screening tool that uses voice recordings and computer analysis to identify people with mild cognitive impairment, a precursor to dementia.

«This opens a new door in identifying biological markers for dementia since we might consider using the brain's processing of speech sounds as a new way to detect the disease earlier,» says Dr. Claude Alain, the study's senior author and senior scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute (RRI) and professor at the University of Toronto's psychology department.

Participation in activities that promote mental activity, and moderate physical activity in middle age, may help protect against the development of Alzheimer's disease and dementia in later life, according to new research reported today at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference ® 2014 (AAIC ® 2014) in Copenhagen.

«While significant effort is being put into developing treatments to slow or block the progression of Alzheimer's dementia, little work has been done to get the medical system ready for such an advancement,» said Jodi Liu, lead author of the study and a policy researcher at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

«Tangles drive the dementia and drive the nerve degeneration,» says Tanzi, who also is director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital.

This work expands upon previous research which has shown that after being hospitalized, older adults are at high risk for memory and other cognitive problems, including both transient (temporary) delirium and long - term changes in cognition, including dementia.

Commenting on the need for innovative approaches to dementia treatments, Dr Doug Brown, Director of Research and Development at Alzheimer's Society, said: «With no new dementia drugs in nearly 15 years, we're at a critical time for dementia rResearch and Development at Alzheimer's Society, said: «With no new dementia drugs in nearly 15 years, we're at a critical time for dementia researchresearch.

Crimmins, Brayne and Langa will discuss the research on falling dementia risk in a February 13 panel at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C..

Middle - aged people who experience temporary blood pressure drops that often cause dizziness upon standing up may be at an increased risk of developing cognitive decline and dementia 20 years later, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research suggests.

«Our goal is to identify people who are at the highest risk for dementia as early as possible» said study author Ronald Petersen, M.D., Ph.D., Chester and Debbie Cadieux Director of the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Cora Kanow Professor of Alzheimer's Disease Research and a member of the American Academy of Neurology.

Dr. Doyle then trained as a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University under the mentorship of Dr. Marion Buckwalter, researching the role of transforming growth factor (TGF)- beta signaling after stroke and developing a model of poststroke dementia.

A study by researchers at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) is the first to demonstrate that patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) lose the emotional content / colour of their memories.

A growing body of research indicates this practice could greatly increase patients» risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, according to Helene Alphonso, DO, Director of Osteopathic Medical Education at North Texas University Health Science Center.

Researchers at the Ludwig - Maximilians - University, the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), and the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD) in Munich, Germany, have identified a brain inflammation marker in patients at early asymptomatic stages of Alzheimer's disease.

Dr Doug Brown, Director of Research at Alzheimer's Society who funded the study, said: «Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is often misunderstood as being a mixture of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, but this confirms it's actually a unique condition.

On the plus side, only last week May's government announced further details of the promised Dementia Research Institute, which is being set up at University College London with # 150 million of public money.

«Our results, based on in - depth interviews with seniors and their caregivers, add to a growing body of evidence that this decline in dementia risk is a real phenomenon, and that the expected future growth in the burden of dementia may not be as extensive as once thought,» says lead author Kenneth Langa, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the U-M Medical School, Institute for Social Research and School of Public Health, and a research investigator at the VA Ann Arbor HealthcareResearch and School of Public Health, and a research investigator at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcareresearch investigator at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.

«Other research has looked at midlife hypertension as risk factor for dementia,» said study corresponding author Michael D. Murray, PharmD, MPH of the Regenstrief Institute's Center for Health Services Research and Purdue University College of Presearch has looked at midlife hypertension as risk factor for dementia,» said study corresponding author Michael D. Murray, PharmD, MPH of the Regenstrief Institute's Center for Health Services Research and Purdue University College of PResearch and Purdue University College of Pharmacy.

Memory screening tests are not good indicators of dementia because they offer only a snapshot of someone's mental abilities, says John Morris, director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine.

Over the past two decades, research scientist Rachel Whitmer at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, California, has tracked over 6,000 members of Kaiser starting when they were age 40 to 45 in an effort to learn if there is a connection between central obesity and dresearch scientist Rachel Whitmer at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, California, has tracked over 6,000 members of Kaiser starting when they were age 40 to 45 in an effort to learn if there is a connection between central obesity and dResearch in Oakland, California, has tracked over 6,000 members of Kaiser starting when they were age 40 to 45 in an effort to learn if there is a connection between central obesity and dementia.

This will pay for a new # 150 million Dementia Research Institute and science labs at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs worth # 130 million.

But that isn't correct,» says John Haaga, director of Behavioral and Social Research at the US National Institute on Aging (see «The different kinds of dementia», below).

Preliminary research has suggested that, «if the target is to improve older adults» cognitive control, reasoning, and higher - order cognitive skills, and stave off dementia and Alzheimer's as long as possible, then maybe strategy games are the way to go,» said Chandramallika Basak, assistant professor at the Center for Vital Longevity and School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas.

A team of researchers at Mayo Clinic and The Scripps Research Institute in Florida have developed a new therapeutic strategy to combat the most common genetic risk factor for the neurodegenerative disorders amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

A team led by scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Mayo Clinic has identified a basic biological mechanism that kills neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and in a related genetic disorder, frontotemporal dementia (FTD), found in some ALS patients.

Estimates of the proportion of dementia cases within countries are needed to plan for the provision of care, yet much of the evidence used at both national and local levels (eg, the UK's NHS primary care targets) is based on research started in the 1980s.

Dr Doug Brown, Chief Policy and Research Officer at Alzheimer's Society, commented: «70 % of people living in care homes have dementia, and it's clear from these findings that they're bearing the brunt of a chronically underfunded social care system.

«A recent study by RAND found that the majority of Americans» cost - burden for dementia is caused by long - term care,» said Regina A. Shih, the study's lead author and a senior behavioral scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

Dr Gomez - Nicola and his colleagues at the University of Southampton will continue their work with funding from the Dementia Consortium — a collaboration between Alzheimer's Research UK, MRC Technology and pharmaceutical companies, Eisai and Lilly.

The Pennington Biomedical Research Center is at the forefront of medical discovery as it relates to understanding the triggers of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer and dementia.

Neurological research at Gladstone focuses on a host of devastating conditions, including Alzheimer's, frontotemporal dementia (FTD), Parkinson's and Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease) and multiple sclerosis.

He completed a clinical fellowship in Aging and Dementia and a research fellowship in Neuroepidemiology at Columbia University.

In a commentary accompanying the paper, Prerana Shrestha and Eric Klann of the Center for Neural Science at New York University said that the research employed a «clever strategy» and that «the potential to rescue long - term memory in dementia is exciting.»

Doug Brown, director of research at the Alzheimer's Society, cautioned that the technique is not something that can be translated into a procedure that is safe for the estimated 44 million people worldwide with dementia just yet.

According to the new research published in the journal Stroke, people who drank at least one diet soda every day maintained nearly three times the risk of suffering from stroke or dementia.

Alzheimer's Research UK is funding pioneering research to unravel the link between sleep and the amyloid protein, and it is an important area of research for scientists working at the UK Dementia Research Institute, the country's largest ever initiative aimed at understanding the causes of dResearch UK is funding pioneering research to unravel the link between sleep and the amyloid protein, and it is an important area of research for scientists working at the UK Dementia Research Institute, the country's largest ever initiative aimed at understanding the causes of dresearch to unravel the link between sleep and the amyloid protein, and it is an important area of research for scientists working at the UK Dementia Research Institute, the country's largest ever initiative aimed at understanding the causes of dresearch for scientists working at the UK Dementia Research Institute, the country's largest ever initiative aimed at understanding the causes of dDementia Research Institute, the country's largest ever initiative aimed at understanding the causes of dResearch Institute, the country's largest ever initiative aimed at understanding the causes of dementiadementia.

ChengZhong Wang, PhD, Johanna Knoferle, MD, David Walker, Maureen Balestra, Leslie Tong, Laura Leung, PhD, Karen Ring, PhD, and Mihir Kshirsagar also participated in this research at Gladstone, which received support from the Tau Consortium, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, the Consortium for Frontotemporal Dementia Research, the S.D. Bechtresearch at Gladstone, which received support from the Tau Consortium, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, the Consortium for Frontotemporal Dementia Research, the S.D. BechtResearch, the S.D. Bechtel, Jr..

Scientists at Kessler Foundation conduct cognitive research to improve cognition in individuals with multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, stroke and dementia.

DHA or fish - oil supplements aren't likely to cause any harm to Alzheimer's patients, but they aren't likely to do any good either, says Steven H. Ferris, PhD, the director of the Aging and Dementia Research Center at New York University.

«Physical activity reduces risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke and vascular dementia,» said Giliberto, an investigator at The Litwin - Zucker Research Center for the Study of Alzheimer's Disease at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, N.Y.

«There is a lot of evidence that [people] with cognitive decline are at highest risk of later developing dementia, so it is likely that preventing or delaying cognitive decline today will help reduce risk of dementia tomorrow,» says Grodstein, who was not involved in the research but wrote an editorial accompanying the study.

The findings suggest that poor hearing is a «harbinger of impending dementia,» says George Gates, MD, a hearing expert at the University of Washington in Seattle, who was not involved in the new study but whose own research has demonstrated a link between the two conditions.

[1] Dr. Susan DeLaMonte at Brown University is also at the forefront of research linking insulin resistance and blood sugar abnormalities to dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

One scientist who is studying the question of whether gluten ingestion can contribute to dementia in those who have non-celiac gluten sensitivity is Dr. Mak Daulatzai, a cardiologist and senior medical research fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia.