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Tag Archives: Structural MRI
Middle-Age Obesity and Accelerated Brain Ageing (BBC News / Neurobiology of Aging)
Summary Researchers at the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience, examining the loss of white matter in the brains of lean and overweight persons, have discovered that the brains of overweight people tend to resemble those of leaner people who … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, International, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accelerated Brain Ageing, BBC Health News, Behavioural Risk Factors, Brain Ageing, Brain Mapping Unit: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridge Center for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN), Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience, Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN), Cerebral White Matter Changes, Cerebral White Matter Volume in Overweight and Obese Individuals, Compromised White Matter Integrity and Obesity, Dementia Risk Factors, Department of Clinical Biochemistry: University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry: University of Cambridge, Effects of Weight Diet and Exercise on Brain and Memory, Epidemiology, Institute of Metabolic Sciences: University of Cambridge, Institute of Public Health: University of Cambridge, Lifestyle Factors, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Middle-Age Obesity, Modifiable Risk Factors, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (Cambridge), MRI Scans, Neurobiology of Aging (Journal), Obesity, Obesity and Risk of Neurodegeneration, Obesity is the New Smoking, Obesity Risk Factor, Obesity Time-Bomb, Risk Factors, Structural Brain Ageing, Structural MRI, Unhealthy Behaviours, Unhealthy Lifestyles, United States, University of Cambridge, USA, Voxel-Based Morphometry (VBM), Wellcome Trust, Wellcome Trust Medical Research Council Institute of Metabolic Science at Cambridge University, White Matter Structural Integrity, White Matter Volume, Yale School of Medicine: Yale University, Yale University
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Leg Power Helps Sustain Cognitive Ability? (BBC News / Gerontology)
Summary A King’s College London study involving over 300 twins indicates that older women with stronger legs tend to perform better with respect to brain ageing. Full Text Link Reference Fit legs equals fit brain, study suggests. London: BBC Health … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Active Ageing, Active and Healthy Ageing, Active Lifestyle, Activity, Ageing, Ageing Well, BBC Health News, Benefits of Activity, BioResource Clinical Research Facility and Biomedical Research Centre at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, Brain Ageing, Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB), Cognitive Ageing, Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology: King’s College London, Discordant Twin Approach, Environmental and Lifestyle Factors, European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme, Functional MRI, Gerontology, Healthy Ageing, Healthy Cognitive Ageing, Healthy Lifestyles, Kings College London, Leg Extensor Power Rig, Leg Power, Leg Power and Preservation of Cognitive Ability, Lifestyle Factors, Monozygotic Twins, Muscular Fitness: LEP, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Neuroprotective Lifestyles, Older Female Twins, Physical Activity, Physical Exercise, Physical Performance, Postmenopausal Women, Structural MRI, Twin Studies, Wellcome Trust
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Blood Test Potentially Able to Predict Alzheimer’s Disease Onset (BBC News / Alzheimer’s & Dementia)
Summary Research published in the Alzheimer’s & Dementia: the Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association may indicate a significant step forwards in developing a blood test which could be able to predict the risk of Alzheimer’s Disease onset with 87% accuracy. Research … Continue reading →
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Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers: Updated Hypothetical Model (Lancet Neurology)
Summary A hypothetical model of the major biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease, published by the same authors in 2010, has been updated in the light of new evidence. Full Text Link Reference Jack, CR. Jr. Knopman, DS. [and] Jagust, WJ. [et … Continue reading →
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Brain Scans Distinguish Between Dementia Types (BBC News / Neurology)
Summary Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania believe they may have discovered how to distinguish between different types of dementia without the need for invasive lumbar puncture tests to obtain cerebrospinal fluid (csf). Alzheimer’s and frontotemporal dementia share similar features and symptoms and can … Continue reading →
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Biomarkers Predicting Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer’s Disease
[A version of this item appears in: Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 2 Issue 3, October 2011]. Summary The process of developing Alzheimer’s Disease is known to begin years before the formal diagnosis of clinical dementia. The concept … Continue reading →
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Tagged ASYMAD, Asymptomatic Alzheimer’s Disease, Biomarkers Predicting Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer's Disease, Cerebrospinal Fluid, Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF), CSF Aβ, CSF Tau, Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease, Fluid and Imaging Biomarkers, Metabolic FDG-PET, Molecular PIB-PET, Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease, Structural MRI
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