NEW YORK: UK Biobank is obtaining a rich set of brain scans from thousands of participants, showing many different aspects of the brain’s structure, connections and activities.

Five thousand brain scans from the UK Biobank imaging project are now available for use by the research community. Read More »

NEW YORK: The Center for Human Drug Research in Leiden will soon start testing medicines on young children, elderly people and psychiatric patients in an effort to fully understand the effects and side effects medicines have on the people for whom they are intended…

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PHILADELPHIA: One of the classic hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease is the sticky gobs of brain plaques called amyloids that clog up the brain’s neuropathways.  But one type of cognitive degeneration doesn’t seem to have any relation to amyloid buildup:  Suspected non-Alzheimer pathophysiology (SNAP).

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DALLAS: Twenty years ago, using feeding tubes for those with severe advanced dementia was common. But since then, the number of nursing homes using that method has steadily declined, notes a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

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