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Anchor lead: Can you reduce your risk of dementia with training? Elizabeth Tracey reports Project Talent tested many teenagers in the 1960s and followed them until recently, finding that men with lower mechanical ability and women with lower linguistic ability …
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Anchor lead: Amyloid and Alzheimer’s disease isn’t always important, Elizabeth Tracey reports Aggressively removing amyloid from the brains of people who had Alzheimer’s disease only slightly slowed their rate of cognitive decline, a recent study found. Constantine Lyketsos, an Alzheimer’s …
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Anchor lead: A treatment for Alzheimer’s disease seems to offer modest benefit, Elizabeth Tracey reports A drug that’s been under investigation for some time has finally produced some modest benefit in removing the substance called amyloid from the brains of …
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Anchor lead: If you don’t drink alcohol and you’re worried about Alzheimer’s disease, what should you do? Elizabeth Tracey reports People who drink alcohol moderately in middle age seem to develop Alzheimer’s disease less often than those who don’t drink …
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Anchor lead: Quantity and timing of alcohol consumption may affect Alzheimer’s development, Elizabeth Tracey reports Drinking moderately in your middle years may protect you against Alzheimer’s disease later, a recent study in the British Medical Journal found. Sevil Yasar, whose …
