All posts tagged "Agerelatedconditions"

PHILADELPHIA — When Temple University scientist Domenico Praticò helped secure a $3.8 million state grant to study Alzheimer’s disease, school officials hailed the news as a sign that his research center was “poised to become a national leader in dementia research.” Not mentioned in the announcement: School officials had been alerted to allegations that Praticò improperly reused or altered images of mouse brains that accompanied his studies, thereby making his findings appear stronger than they really were. The next month, a group of Praticò’s Temple colleagues wrote the university’s board of ......

Bruce Willis’ wife experienced a range of emotions on the actor’s birthday, weeks after the family revealed his diagnosis with frontotemporal dementia. The “Pulp Fiction” star turned 68 on Sunday. “Today is one of those days of feeling the grief and sadness,” Emma Heming Willis, 44, wrote on Instagram. “But the silver lining or the flip side is that I’m so lucky to feel your warmth and love that is directed to my husband and our family. I see your messages, your stories that you share, and all I can say is thank you.” She continued, “Your connection helps me and I hope it helps you in a small ......

The FDA on Friday authorized the use of the Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab, the first drug clearly shown to slow the progress of the debilitating brain disease. But the treatment will not be widely available at first, as insurers are not expected to cover it until the agency reviews additional evidence about the drug’s effectiveness. That review may come later this year. Yet even then, policy experts warn that the health-care system will have trouble accommodating — and paying for — treatment of the millions who will be eligible. Studies suggest the drug is modestly beneficial for people in the ea......

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For people of a certain age, it takes only a few "senior moments" — struggling for words, names or memories — to cause worry. Is this normal aging or mild cognitive impairment (MCI)? Is it all a run-up to Alzheimer's? As a neuropsychologist at the University of Kansas Medical Center-Wichita, Ryan Schroeder conducts the lengthy cognitive tests — looking at memory, at problem solving, reasoning, language use and other measures — that help doctors tell the difference. "If you were to meet with me, for example, for an evaluation," Schroeder said, "you'd spend probably about four......

SEATTLE — Kevin Morrison was a basketball coach on the rise. As top assistant and lead recruiter on Mike Neighbors’ staff at Washington, he was an architect of the greatest stretch in Husky women’s hoops history. At age 47 in 2020, it seemed only a matter of time until Morrison, then an assistant with a rising San Diego State women’s program, would land the head-coaching job he had come agonizingly close to getting. Life was good. Morrison had a beautiful family, with a loving wife and four lively kids under age 10 — including triplets born at UW Medical Center. And then, sequestered at home i......

You might want to remember this during your next visit to a bar. A new study from the University of Oxford concluded that drinking alcohol had affected the brain’s gray matter area where “important bits where information is processed,” according to the study’s lead author, Anya Topiwala. The study delved into the relationship between alcohol intake of nearly 25,000 United Kingdom residents, and their brain using brain scans. “The more people drank, the less the volume of their gray matter,” Topiwala said to CNN. “Brain volume reduces with age and more severely with dementia. Smaller brain volu......