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Researchers debunk dementia hypersexuality ‘myth’
BOSTON: It’s a myth that people with young-onset dementia are hypersexual, report researchers. In fact, the opposite is more likely to be true, they…
Full story covered in the Dementia Business Weekly.
Read More »Cannabis pills ‘do not help dementia sufferers’
FORT WORTH: Cannabis pills may not be effective in treating the behavioral symptoms of dementia, new research suggests.
The study suggests that medical marijuana pills may not help treat dementia symptoms such as aggression, pacing and wandering.
For the study, researchers randomly selected 50 people Read More »
Wearable devices portend vast health and privacy consequences
PHOENIX: Tech firms are eagerly responding to the human penchant for self-perfectibility by inventing more devices that can collect even more data, which the tech titans foresee as the real gold mine.
New gizmos include a baby bottle that measures nutritional intake, a band that Read More »
Studies confirm brain plaque can help predict Alzheimer’s
MICHIGAN: The largest analysis to date of amyloid plaques in people’s brains confirms that the presence of the substance can help predict who will develop Alzheimer’s and determine who has the disease.
Two linked studies also support the central early role in Alzheimer’s of beta Read More »