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In 17,972 US adults followed for up to 22 years, starting to volunteer was linked to slower cognitive decline associated with the APOE e4 Alzheimer's gene variant, with the clearest link at …
Read articleA 2026 Scottish health-system preprint used natural language processing of CT and MRI reports to subtype stroke and found that lobar intracerebral hemorrhage carried a higher dementia risk b…
Read articleA 2026 Australian study involving 2,192 dementia-free adults found that each 10% higher ultra-processed food intake was associated with 0.05-point lower attention and 0.24-point higher modif…
Read articleA preprint in 84 older adults with epilepsy found that abnormal Alzheimer's-related blood biomarkers were common, but the biomarker categories did not line up neatly with cognitive impairmen…
Read articleSome sleep apnea patients stay sleepy even when their CPAP is used 6+ hours a night and apnea events have been driven back to normal range. A 2026 cross-sectional study of 65 PAP-adherent ad…
Read articleRecent research has uncovered connections between the use of antidepressants and the risk of developing dementia in the elderly. This complex relationship, marked by varying results and cons…
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