Sentences with phrase «type of dementia caused»

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.

«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.

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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.

Both teams found that mutations to the same gene can also cause a common type of dementia called frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

Also, although this study does show a correlation (note that it does not prove that one causes the other) between blood type and risk of cognitive decline, research has demonstrated that there are many other factors that have shown to be associated with a reduced risk of dementia.

It is used heavily in clinical oncology, and for clinical diagnosis of certain diffuse brain diseases such as those causing various types of dementias.

[3][4] By eliminating some of these toxins, you can help prevent vascular dementia, which is the second most common type of dementia after Alzheimer's, and is caused by cerebrovascular incidents like stroke.

«There is evidence that saturated fats cause inflammation in humans and animals, and that is not a good thing because inflammation is an underlying cause of heart disease, obesity, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and dementia,» he says in Eat Fat, Get Thin.