One of the most frustrating and scary things about dementia is that we still know breathtakingly little about it. But the medical community in Michigan, as in the rest of the U.S., is currently working at unprecedented speed to change that.
The five-year grant is to be used to study disorders, such as Alzheimer s disease or progressive supranuclear palsy, that are often misdiagnosed as other conditions; and to discover new tauopathies,
CHICAGO - Neurons in an area of the brain responsible for memory (known as the entorhinal cortex) were significantly larger in SuperAgers compared to cognitively average peers, individuals with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease and even individuals 20 to 30 years younger than SuperAgers who are aged 80 years and older, reports a new N