Sentences with phrase «which type of dementia»

Dementia is a broad term that can refer to many different types of cognitive problems and memory loss, and Cassidy does not specify which type of dementia he has been diagnosed with.

Our findings can be used to identify more clearly which type of dementia each person has, so that they can take part in the right clinical trial, which could lead to better treatments and diagnostic tools,» she said.

Not exact matches

The results, if confirmed, could enable doctors to better prevent those ills for which the lonely are at greater risk, such as heart disease, infection, age - related dementia, and certain types of cancer.

The only person in his family since the early 16th century to have dementia was his great - grandmother, so the familial type of Alzheimer's, which is responsible for about 3 percent of cases, is not likely.

«Use of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology» — which involves taking skin cells from patients and reprogramming them into embryonic - like stem cells capable of turning into other specific cell types relevant for studying a particular disease — «makes it possible to model dementias that affect people later in life,» says senior study author Catherine Verfaillie of KU Leuven.

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.

«A lot of clinicians don't screen for all the LBD symptoms,» Taylor says, which can make it challenging to differentiate between different types of dementia.

[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.

The chronic afflictions of heart attacks, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and dementia, which plague our society, were all rare in these native populations.

A study has shown that the increase of the brain enzyme called puromycin - sensitive aminopeptidase, which is the most abundant brain peptidase seen in mammals, can slow the harmful accumulation of toxic tau proteins, which ultimately result in neurofibrillary tangles, a key pathological characteristic of Alzheimer's and other types of dementia.

The 10 year China Study which is discussed in the identically named book and the documentary Forks Over Knives, revealed an astounding link between the consumption of animal protein and disease, specifically cancer, heart disease, brain diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer's, kidney stones, osteoperosis, and autoimmune diseases such as MS, rhueumatoid arthritis, and Type 1 diabetes.

This type of research, which is the gold standard when it comes to scientific validation, demonstrates that diets rich in animal products confers a metabolic advantage over the alternatives, decreasing the risk of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dementia, consistently out - performing high carbohydrate diets.

Much less common types are Lewy body (shares symptoms with both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease) and Frontotemporal dementia which symptoms are similar to those of Alzheimer's disease.

But today we know that our body has amazing ability to regenerate itself and there is enough scientific evidence to prove that it is possible to recover not only from cancer, type two diabetes or coronary heart disease but even from autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes or Alzheimer's disease, which currently is the most common form of dementia.

A case - control study of 164 patients with dementia of Alzheimer's type included 76 cases in which the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease was confirmed by examination of brain cells after death.