Doctiplus - We are allways here!
Most claims about brain training don’t survive contact with rigorous evidence. Puzzle apps promise sharper thinking and mostly deliver better puzzle-solving, nothing more. So when a finding actually holds up under the toughest test science has, a randomized controlled trial…
There’s a belief so common it barely gets questioned anymore: that dementia is simply what happens if you live long enough, a roll of the genetic dice nobody can do much about. It’s the same fatalism I’ve spent two decades…
For most families, the road to an Alzheimer’s diagnosis starts with a family doctor, not a neurologist. New data presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in London suggests that first stop is about to get a lot more reliable.…
A large new study is challenging a basic assumption behind most dementia prevention advice: that the same risk factors matter roughly the same amount everywhere. They don’t, according to researchers, and that has real implications for how prevention programs get…
One of the more unsettling facts about Alzheimer’s disease is also one of the least discussed outside research circles. Roughly 30% of people whose brains show the full pathological signature of the disease, the plaques, the tangles, all of it,…
Every infectious disease detective story eventually arrives at the same question: how does the thing actually get from one place to the next. Alzheimer’s disease isn’t infectious in the way a virus is, nobody catches it from a cough or…
For decades, two proteins have played the villain in two of the most feared diagnoses in medicine. Tau gets blamed for Alzheimer’s. Alpha-synuclein gets blamed for Parkinson’s. Both misfold, both clump together into sticky tangles inside neurons, and both, once…
Cancer and Alzheimer’s disease have always occupied separate rooms in medicine. Different specialists, different journals, different drugs, different fears. A new study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Boston Children’s Hospital, published in the journal Cell,…
Nearly 60% of American adults take some kind of dietary supplement, and glucosamine is one of the most routine choices on that list. Tens of millions of older adults take it daily for joint pain and osteoarthritis, buy it off…
The brain has its own waste removal system, a set of molecular pumps stationed along the blood-brain barrier whose job is to flush toxic material out before it can pile up. In Alzheimer’s disease, that system breaks down. The pumps…
