Credit: Scitech Daily A new study shows that taking a daily supplement may improve cognition in older adults. In the study, scientists estimated that three years of multivitamin supplementation roughly translated to a 60-percent slowing of cognitive decrease (about 1.8 years). Daily multivitamin intake Could taking a daily multivitamin help to maintain cognitive health with aging and...
Image credit: Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock.com The neurodegenerative illness affects millions of individuals globally. As our life expectancy grows, more individuals will be affected in the coming years. Tauopathies such as Alzheimer's illness are a class of neurodegenerative problems involving an accumulation of tau proteins, which gradually cause massive loss of brain cells. There´s little consensus about...
JWST's new image of NGC 7469. (ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. S. Evans) The perfect galaxy photo The James Webb Space Telescope simply gave a spiral galaxy 230 million light-years away a recent sparkling glamor shot excellent sufficient for the Christmas tree. While the galaxy has the instead un-attractive name of NGC 7469, it has been...
(Dougal Waters/Getty Images You've driven home from work along the same course for the past five years. However, lately, you've been stopping at the same intersection, struggling to remember if you must turn left or right. Many occasions in everyday life could make us question whether lapses in memory are common, a sign of cognitive...
Wake forest medical center Brain electrodes developed to mimic the hippocampus appear to increase the encoding of memories-- and are two times as effective in people with bad memory. A singular form of brain stimulation seems to boost people's capability to remember new details-- by imitating how our brains create memories. Memory prosthesis The "memory prosthesis," which includes...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Investigators at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have determined the microorganisms most typically discovered in intense oral diseases. Few such research have been done previously, and the group currently wishes that the investigation can deliver much deeper insight into the association in between dental germs and other diseases. The research is released...
Credit: Queensland Brain Institute The clean-up of cellular "protein clumps" can prevent the beginning of some forms of dementia, according to new research from The University of Queensland. Scientists from the Queensland Brain Institute made the finding while emphasizing the relationship inbetween the enzyme Fyn and the protein Tau in frontotemporal dementia. The team, led by...
Credit: Unsplash A group of scientists from Helmholtz Munich has identified a new use for vitamin K, typically recognized for its part in blood clotting. In its fully reduced configuration, the researchers discovered that vitamin K operates as an anti-oxidant by efficiently inhibiting ferroptotic cell death. Ferroptosis is a natural kind of cell death in...
