Slower walking speed could signal early cognitive decline. Gait may become a powerful, simple tool for detecting how fast ...

Structural brain changes in the medial temporal lobe found up to 15 years before Alzheimer’s symptoms in people with Down ...

Spending less time in slow wave and REM sleep may accelerate brain atrophy in regions affected early in Alzheimer’s disease, ...

Scientists have found that lemborexant not only increased restorative sleep in male mice but also reduced levels of toxic tau ...

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HealthDay News — Sleep deficiency is associated with atrophy of the inferior parietal ... of each Alzheimer disease (AD)-vulnerable brain region (hippocampus, entorhinal, inferior parietal ...

But because Alzheimer's causes brain atrophy, most prominently in the hippocampus, an area of the brain that plays a significant role in memory, it surprised researchers that people with lower ...

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

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 ...

“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 ...