People who spend less time in deep sleep or rapid eye movement (REM) sleep may be at greater risk for brain changes linked to ...

A recent study published in Nature Neuroscience provides evidence that lemborexant, a medication used to treat insomnia, can ...

“We also saw brain atrophy, or a wasting away of gray matter, in a part of the brain’s memory center called the hippocampus.” Less blood flow in the memory center of the brain may cause ...

In particular, brain atrophy can be seen in the hippocampus, the part of your brain most responsible for memory and decision making. Neurodegeneration, including the loss of synapses, neurons ...

Longitudinal hippocampal atrophy was tied to cognitive decline ... longitudinal changes in imaging biomarkers of amyloid, tau, brain volume, and cerebrovascular disease. "As the first disease ...

The researchers found that the Green Med diet significantly attenuated brain atrophy, specifically hippocampal loss, as measured by MRI. The effect was correlated with other improvements as well ...

Gum disease and tooth loss may be linked to brain shrinkage in the hippocampus ... studied longitudinal associations between the number of teeth present and hippocampal atrophy in a group of late ...

The resulting atrophy connectivity map overlapped with schizophrenia-associated brain regions, including the bilateral insula, hippocampus and fusiform cortex. Finally, the researchers showed that ...

Type 2 diabetes has been linked to significant brain atrophy, especially in the hippocampus, which is critical for memory and is also affected by Alzheimer's disease. Individuals with a long ...