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Researchers find a protective probiotic for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A probiotic bacterium called Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus HA-114 prevents neurodegeneration in the C. elegans worm, an animal model used to study amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
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Cellular housekeeping process implicated in fatal neurological disorder Hu
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Huntington's disease, a fatal, inherited neurodegenerative condition, is caused by a genetic error present at birth, though its symptoms often don't begin until middle adulthood. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have been trying to understand how the ageing
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Loss of neurons makes Alzheimer's patients drowsy: Study
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
San Francisco (California) [US], April 5 (ANI): According to a recent study, the drowsiness that many Alzheimer's patients experience are caused not by a lack of sleep, but rather by the degeneration of a type of neuron that keeps us awake. It also confirmed that the tau protein is behind th
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Study finds green Mediterranean diet may slow age-related neurodegeneratio
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], January 15 (ANI): A new study has found that a green Mediterranean diet, high in polyphenols and low in red and processed meat, seems to slow age-related brain atrophy.
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Neuroprotective mechanism altered by Alzheimer's disease risk genes: Study
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 4 (ANI): The brain has a natural protective mechanism against Alzheimer's disease, and researchers have discovered that gene variants associated with the risk of developing the disease disturb the protective mechanism in ways that can lead to neurodegeneration.
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Fat cells found to play central role in cognitive decline, neurodegenerati
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 22 (ANI): According to a study that involves the oxidant amplification loop led by Marshall University, scientists reveal new insights into the role of fat cells in cognitive decline and neurodegeneration.
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Study finds older people with early, asymptomatic Alzheimer's at risk of f
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], September 19 (ANI): In older people without cognitive problems who experience a fall, the process of neurodegeneration that leads to Alzheimer's dementia already may have begun, as per the findings of a new study.
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Older people with early, asymptomatic Alzheimer's at risk of falls
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], September 15 (ANI): Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that, in older people without cognitive problems who experience a fall, the process of neurodegeneration that leads to Alzheimer's dementia already may have begun.
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