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Neural Prosthetic that Recalls Specific Memories

Developing a hippocampal neural prosthetic to facilitate human memory encoding and recall of stimulus features and categories
“Here, we [at Wake [MORE]

Lab Grown Small Blood Vessels Can Mimic Stroke, et al

Lab-grown ‘small blood vessels’ point to potential treatment for major cause of stroke and vascular dementia
“Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) [MORE]

What if Aging Is a Curable Disease?

Age disease – conceptual model
Maybe aging is a curable disease, but what then?  How large can the human population grow [MORE]

Walking Styles that Indicate Different Kinds of Dementia

Gait deviations
Neuroscience researchers at the University of Newcastle (UK) “. . . hypothesize that AD (Alzheimer’s disease) and LBD (Lewy [MORE]

Detecting Alzheimer’s Decades Earlier

Beta amyloid plaque
Misfolded amyloid beta, forming plaques, has long been suspected as a key to understanding how Alzheimer’s disease causes [MORE]

Odors of Disease and Immune Response

Electronic Nose
Alexander Graham Bell had an interesting observation: “If you are ambitious to find a new science, measure a smell.” [MORE]

Imaging that Distinguishes Dementia from Depression

Brain SPECT Scans
Single proton emission computed tomography (SPECT) relies on injected gamma ray-emitting radioisotopes which results in true 3-D images [MORE]

Optical Sensor for Vitamin B-12 Deficiency in Blood

Georgios Tsiminis in Photonics Laboratory
“University of Adelaide researchers have developed a world-first optical sensor that can detect vitamin B12 in [MORE]

Dementia-in-a-Dish

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
About half of patients who develop early-onset frontotemporal dementia have a mutation in the gene expressing progranulin [MORE]

Bridging Neurodegeneration

Creating a Scaffold for Nerves
Within neurons, a protein “bridge” exists that connects the energy producing mitochondria and the calcium storing [MORE]

A Quandary about Alzheimer’s Biomarkers

Alzheimer's Disease Progression Chart
Alzheimer’s disease can take a decade or more to present, but over that time the levels of [MORE]

Exploring “Patient Discovery”

The theme of last year’s Medical Automation Conference was “patient discovery”-i.e. the idea that identifying molecular pathways in individuals’ [MORE]

Hopkins’ Online Test for Dementia Risk

Neuron
Nearly everyone in the healthcare debate agrees that the heart of real reform is people taking greater responsibility for [MORE]

MC Square Memory-Enhancing Device

MC Square Device
MC Square, a sound and light device that’s worn to relieve stress, has been modified to stimulate specific [MORE]