Sentences with phrase «disease from the cognitive decline»

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Cognitive decline is becoming more prevalent, ranging from brain fog to difficulty concentrating to Alzheimer's disease.

It is important for physicians and scientists to understand the unique pathology of HS - AGING, and to be able to differentiate it from other diseases, as it is only by making an accurate diagnosis that clinicians can hope to treat people who present with signs of cognitive decline.

«Now that we have more evidence that serotonin is a chemical that appears affected early in cognitive decline, we suspect that increasing serotonin function in the brain could prevent memory loss from getting worse and slow disease progression,» says Gwenn Smith, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of geriatric psychiatry and neuropsychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Previous studies from Johns Hopkins and other centers have shown that people with Alzheimer's disease and severe cognitive decline have severe loss of serotonin neurons, but the studies did not show whether those reductions were a cause or effect of the disease.

The course of Parkinson's disease (PD) can vary from gradual deterioration to precipitous decline in motor or cognitive function.

A $ 1.7 million drug discovery effort to identify molecular and genetic risk factors and new therapeutic targets for cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease, based on data from the Religious Order Study and the Rush Memory and Aging Project.

However, growing evidence from a number of studies links the body's inflammatory response to increased rates of cognitive decline, suggesting that it would be worth exploring whether the treatment of gum disease might also benefit the treatment of dementia and Alzheimer's Ddisease might also benefit the treatment of dementia and Alzheimer's DiseaseDisease.

As adults age, changes in physical health can be a natural part of the process, as can cognitive decline, which can range from normal change in cognition to the onset of disorders such as dementia or Alzheimer's disease.

I've written about the use of neuropsychological tests for the differential diagnosis of AD, MCI, normal cognitive aging, and other neurodegenerative diseases, as well as for the prediction of cognitive decline and conversion from MCI to dementia.

Buildup of Aß into plaques plays a central role in the onset of Alzheimer's, while the severity of neuro - inflammation is believed to influence the rate of cognitive decline from the disease.

He oversees the Cerebrovascular Disease and Aging Laboratories, which focus on migraine, stroke, epilepsy and cognitive decline from aging.

Results from these behavioral assays show that J147 has the ability to rescue the cognitive decline and disinhibition phenotype associated with AD when administered at an extremely late stage in the disease progression when pathology is already far advanced.

Researchers from the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have deciphered the three - dimensional structure of insulin - degrading enzyme, a promising target for new drugs because it breaks down not only insulin but also the amyloid - beta protein, which has been linked to the cognitive decline of Alzheimer's disease.

But their most significant asset, from a medical standpoint, is their ability to provide protection from cancer, heart disease and cognitive decline.

The antioxidants inside cranberries and other colorful plant foods can protect your rabbit's body from a wide variety of ailments, from arthritis and cognitive decline all the way to heart disease and some cancers.

The researchers analyzed information from 100 patients who likely have Alzheimer's disease, 60 patients with mild cognitive impairment, 100 with subjective cognitive decline, and a control group of 26 healthy individuals.