Sentences with phrase «caused by dementia»

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The discovery offers a rare glimpse into a mysterious stage of the learning process, and it may one day provide scientists with a new way to treat memory impairments, such as those caused by dementia.

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Dementia Definition: A chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and «impaired reasoning».

These findings suggest that most dementias, even those caused by Alzheimer's, are triggered by multiple pathological processes and will require more than one treatment.

But their prominence at sites where nerve cells are damaged by the disease means they deserve careful scrutiny in the desperate search for ways to arrest the most salient cause of dementia.

Huntington's disease, for example, is caused by aggregating proteins inside brain neurons that ultimately lead to motor dysfunction, personality changes, depression and dementia, usually progressing rapidly after onset in people's 40s.

Lasmézas» research focuses on neurological disorders caused by misfolded proteins, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, prion diseases, frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease).

Mitochondrial diseases include Leigh syndrome, a progressive and fatal disorder characterized by lesions on the brain that may lead to heart, kidney, vision and breathing complications, and Alpers Disease, a neurologic illness that causes seizures, dementia, spasticity, blindness, liver dysfunction and cerebral degeneration.

Now, scientists are converging on an explanation, at least for a fraction of the ALS cases caused by a mutation also associated with a kind of dementia.

The recent ability to peer into the brain of living individuals with a rare type of language dementia, primary progressive aphasia (PPA), provides important new insights into the beginning stages of this disease — which results in language loss — when it is caused by a buildup of a toxic protein found in Alzheimer's disease.

Both types of dementia (memory and language) can be caused by an accumulation of beta - amyloid, an abnormal toxic protein in the brain.

THE DEMENTIA associated with Alzheimer's disease may be caused by toxins that the body's own immune cells produce.

It is quite a significant discovery, especially when you consider that many neurological diseases, such as Parkinson's, ALS or dementia, but also speech or motion disorders for instance, are caused by the disruption of synaptic transmission.»

With frontotemporal dementia the symptoms are caused by dead and dying cells; in depression the root cause is still unknown.

Alzheimer's disease, a major source of dementia and memory loss in the elderly, is caused by the accumulation of protein plaques which choke neurons in the brain.

For example, people who have multiple sclerosis — caused by a malfunction of the immune system — had almost double the normal risk of getting dementia.

Scientists at Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida created a novel mouse that exhibits the symptoms and neurodegeneration associated with the most common genetic forms of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease), both of which are caused by a mutation in the a gene called C9ORF72.

More broadly, he said, «These findings are part of an emerging theme that there is a whole spectrum of diseases that includes ALS, and some forms of dementia and myopathy, that are caused by disturbance in the behavior of these structures that perturbs cellular organization.»

«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.

In frontotemporal dementia, the abnormal gelling was found to be caused by defects in the chemical modification of FUS.

Cognitive decline in elderly people can be caused by a specific and treatable metabolic disorder, and the use of laboratory tests is recommended as part of the diagnostic workup of patients with dementia.

Abstract: Cognitive decline in elderly people can be caused by a specific and treatable metabolic disorder, and the use of laboratory tests is recommended as part of the diagnostic workup of patients with dementia.

Dementia is caused by damage — pathological or physical — to nerve cells and synapses.

Dementia, such as Alzheimer's disease, is caused by neurodegeneration.

Thanks to an $ 11 million grant awarded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), Gan will lead a collaboration among national scientists to study how the protein tau affects neurons in the brain and how it causes disease, particularly frontotemporal dementia.

Some diseases, such as a hereditary form of sensory neuropathy accompanied by dementia, are directly caused by methylomic changes.

While the negative effect of plaques and tangles on neurons is apparent, the exact mechanism by which these lesions cause dementia is still under investigation.

Researchers believe the disease is caused by repeated hits to the head, and it has been found to lead to memory loss and dementia.

Perhaps even more alarming to pediatricians is the creeping possibility, based on studies of professional boxers, that young boxers could develop chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a condition caused by repetitive blows to the head that can lead to dementia - like symptoms later in life.

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«Wet brain» is technically known as Wernicke - Korsakoff syndrome, and it's a type of dementia caused by a deficiency of thiamine, or vitamin B1, in the brain.

The dementia in the other half appeared to have been caused by abnormal protein deposits (known as Lewy bodies), stroke - related tissue death (microinfarcts), cell damage, or some combination thereof.

This apparent increased risk for vascular dementia could be caused by the effect of autoimmune diseases on the circulatory system, the researchers said.

Researchers discovered in animal experiments that brown rice consumption reduced learning and memory deficits caused by beta - amyloid protein, one of the main contributors to Alzheimer's dementia.

Memory loss and dementia can be caused by a common vitamin deficiency.

Alzheimer's Disease is the most common form of dementia in the elderly, and is caused primarily by a loss of neurons in the brain's memory centers and networks.

Diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer and dementia are all accelerated by slowly increasing fasting and post-meal blood sugar levels that cause needless suffering and death for millions of unsuspecting people each year.

Effective treatment of dementia caused by Alzheimer's disease requires addressing the listed above all possible causes.

We know that Alzheimer's disease and also other forms of dementia are not caused by only one factor but a complex interplay of lifestyle, genetics, and environment.

This is important because almost every modern disease is caused by or affected by hidden inflammation, including heart disease, cancer, obesity, and dementia as well as arthritis, autoimmune disease, allergies, and digestive disorders.

For example, ginkgo biloba is one of the most promising brain enhancers today and it is actually being used in Europe to treat * a specific type of dementia caused by decreased * blood flow.

In one large study published in 1996, German researchers tested Ginkgo extract on a group of 222 patients, aged fifty - five or older, who were diagnosed with mild to moderate dementia caused by either Alzheimer's disease or multi-infarct dementia.

What the researchers discovered was that, compared to the individuals in medium fitness, risk for all - cause dementia was lower by 88 % in those who had a high level of fitness at the beginning of the study, while it was actually increased by 41 % in those with low fitness.

Wasn't the theory that grain causes dementia supported by one obscure paper taken out of context.

The court reported concluded that the ex-showman suffered from dementia caused by repeated head trauma, something which is sure to make its way into the latest lawsuit.

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Antioxidants fight disease by destroying free radicals, which can cause cell damage that results in the mutations that often lead to arthritis, dementia, and even cancer.

This can be caused by a decline in vision or hearing, high blood pressure, hyperthyroidism, pain, or dementia.

Some of the diseases thought to be caused (or exacerbated) by free radical activity are arthritis, heart disease, dementia, and even many forms of cancer.