Tag Archives: Age-Related Neurodegenerative and Neurovascular Diseases

More on Diabetes in Later Life as a Dementia Risk Factor (Diabetes Care)

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Further epidemiological evidence indicates that diabetes onset in late life is a risk factor for dementia. A cohort study involving 169,114 new cases of dementia in Ontario (Canada) found that dementia risk was 16% higher among the subgroup with … Continue reading →

Posted in For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), International, Quick Insights, Statistics, Universal Interest | Tagged Age-Related Neurodegenerative and Neurovascular Diseases, American Diabetes Association (ADA), Canada, Canada Department of Medicine: Queen's University, Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Cerebral Vascular Disease, Cerebrovascular Disease, Dementia Risk Factors, Department of Medicine: University of Toronto, Diabetes, Diabetes and Multiple Morbidities, Diabetes Care, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, Evidence for Risk Factors of Dementia, Hypoglycaemia, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), Modifiable Risk Factors, Ontario (Canada), Overlapping Risk Factors, Peripheral Vascular Disease, Queen's University (Kingston Canada), Risk Factors, Toronto, University of Toronto, University of Toronto: Canada Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) | Leave a comment

Frontotemporal Dementia: Basic Disease Processes Uncovered? (Alzheimer’s Society / Journal of Cell Biology)

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Researchers studying the connections between neurons in fruit flies may have identified mechanisms which are involved neurodegeneration in Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). FTD affects the frontal and temporal lobes (in human brains). A protein called CHMP2B can cause neuronal connections … Continue reading →

Posted in Alzheimer's Society, Animal Studies, Charitable Bodies, For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), International, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Activator Protein-1), Age-Related Neurodegenerative and Neurovascular Diseases, c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK), CHMP2B, Disease Modifying Treatment by 2025 (Aim), Drosophila melanogaster, Endosomal JNK-Scaffold POSH (Plenty-of-SH3s), ESCRT-III Dysfunction, Frontotemporal Dementia, Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Fruit Flies, Fruit Fly Model of Frontotemporal Dementia, JCB: Journal of Cell Biology, Journal of Cell Biology, Neurodegeneration, Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Neurodegenerative Disorders, Neurodegenerative Research, Neurology, Novel Targets in Neurodegeneration, Pick’s Disease (Frontotemporal Dementia), POSH (Plenty-of-SH3s), Potential Drug Targets, RAB8 Deficiency, Rab8 POSH and TAK1 (Regulation of Synaptic Growth), RAB8 Protein, Synaptic Overgrowth and Endosomal Dysfunction, Transgenic Drosophila | Leave a comment

Dementias Platform UK (Department of Health / Dementia Challenge / World Dementia Council / MRC)

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A new multimillion-pound platform for dementia research, entitled the “Dementias Platform UK (DPUK)”, has been launched by the Medical Research Council. The aim is to ensure the UK is one of the best places in the world to research dementia. … Continue reading →

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Google’s “Moonshot Project” on Tackling Ageing (Financial Times / Reuters / BBC News / ICO / Health and Technology)

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Arthur Levinson, formerly of Genentech, has left Roche to avoid any potential conflict of interest in his role as chief executive of Google’s Calico start-up company. Calico recently agreed a $1.5bn alliance with AbbVie, a rival of Roche, to develop treatments for … Continue reading →

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Exposure of Aged Mice to Young Blood Plasma Improves Age-Related Cognitive Impairment? (BBC News / NHS Choices / Nature Medicine / Science)

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Researchers at Stanford University believe they might have discovered a novel method of slowing, or even reversing, a range of ageing processes (mental and physical). Their work, based on mice so far, involved injecting the blood of young mice … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Age-Related Neurodegenerative and Neurovascular Diseases

More on Diabetes in Later Life as a Dementia Risk Factor (Diabetes Care)

Frontotemporal Dementia: Basic Disease Processes Uncovered? (Alzheimer’s Society / Journal of Cell Biology)

Dementias Platform UK (Department of Health / Dementia Challenge / World Dementia Council / MRC)

Google’s “Moonshot Project” on Tackling Ageing (Financial Times / Reuters / BBC News / ICO / Health and Technology)

Exposure of Aged Mice to Young Blood Plasma Improves Age-Related Cognitive Impairment? (BBC News / NHS Choices / Nature Medicine / Science)

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