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Researchers linked midlife stress and childhood trauma to an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease and neuroinflammation.

Dementia is a neurodegenerative disease associated with an impaired ability to think, remember, or make decisions. Since dementia has a long pre-clinical stage, early diagnosis is crucial.

Recently published in JAMA Neurology, a longitudinal cohort study showed that offspring of women with epilepsy exposed to levetiracetam, oxcarbazepine, and lamotrigine had the lowest prevalence of major congenital malformations (MCMs) compared with other antiseizure medications (ASMs). These findings may help guide clinicians for safer treatment...

"Insights & Implications in Gerontology: The Vital Role of Nutrition in Brain Health," a new publication from the Gerontological Society of America, explores nutritional choices that have been shown to improve cognition and decrease the risk of cognitive impairment and dementia in older adults.

Nontraditional risk factors such as migraine and autoimmune diseases have a significantly greater effect on stroke risk in young adults than traditional risk factors such as hypertension, high cholesterol, and tobacco use, new research showed.

Cognitive assessments administered via a smartphone app are a reliable and valid way to detect frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in high-risk individuals, new research showed.

In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, researchers from China used Mendelian randomization (MR) to assess the genetic relationship between body mass index (BMI) and multiple neurological diseases.

This new study published in Nature Communicatios pinpoints a brain network that is crucially impacted by aging and diseases such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer's, showing increased susceptibility to specific lifestyle and environmental factors.

Exposure to more traffic-related air pollution is associated with greater levels of amyloid plaques in the brain, with exposure in the 3 years before death having the greatest risk, a new postmortem study showed.

A new study found Kundalini yoga provided several benefits to cognition and memory for older women at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease including restoring neural pathways, preventing brain matter decline and reversing aging and inflammation-associated biomarkers -- improvements not seen in a group who received standard memory training...