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In 144 Finnish adults, smell loss rose from healthy aging to MCI to Alzheimer's, and nasal smell-tissue cells from MCI and Alzheimer's donors showed lower NRF2 antioxidant gene activity in a…
Read articleA 2026 mouse study found that long-term CoQ10 exposure reduced working-memory errors in Purkinje-cell-specific Drp1-deficient mice, tying the behavioral rescue to Coa6 binding and support fo…
Read articleA 2026 review ties the Parkinson’s disease genes PINK1 and parkin to damaged-mitochondria cleanup, from damage sensing and ubiquitin tagging to autophagy recruitment and lysosomal degradatio…
Read articleA 2026 Molecular Psychiatry study found that oral FP802 disrupted the NMDAR/TRPM4 death complex and preserved memory-task performance in 5xFAD Alzheimer’s mice treated for 3 months.1 The fin…
Read articleA 25-person pilot study of young adults found an ATP fatigue pattern that was directionally reversed from the simple “low brain energy” story: the depression group had higher visual-cortex A…
Read articleIn a world increasingly reliant on antibiotics, emerging research sheds light on the unintended consequences of their chronic use, revealing significant impairments in mitochondrial function…
Read articleMajor depressive disorder (MDD) is a complex and prevalent psychiatric condition that affects millions worldwide, yet its underlying mechanisms remain only partially understood. Recent resea…
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