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Study to determine true costs of dementia care
BOSTON: A robust economic evaluation of the cost of providing quality dementia care in residential aged care to inform policy making and service planning is being attempted.
The research aims to develop innovative models that both meet the preferences of people with dementia and are Read More »
Research sheds new light on senior living search trends
SEATTLE: The adult children of seniors are often the main decision-makers when it comes to a move into senior living, but new data about how they search for senior housing can tell providers a lot about how to market to both these Baby Boomers and Read More »
Dementia second biggest killer claims research
PHILADELPHIA: Dementia deaths are on the rise and the disease is now the world’s second biggest killer, after heart disease.
“We’ve gone from the third leading cause of death, to the second leading cause of death in a year, that’s a massive increase,”…
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Read More »Conditional neuroligin-2 knockout in adult medial prefrontal cortex links chronic changes
OKLAHOMA CITY: Abnormal activity in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is consistently observed in neuropsychiatric disorders, but the mechanisms involved remain unclear.
Chronic aberrant excitation and/or inhibition of mPFC neurons were proposed to cause cognitive impairments. However, direct evidence for this hypothesis is lacking because Read More »