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RESEARCH NEWS 2019-01-30 Research News Results of the SPRINT MIND trial were published in the January 28 JAMA Neurology. The data indicate that reducing systolic blood pressure to about 120 mmHg over 3.25 years cut the incidence of mild cognitive impairment by 19 percent in peopl
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-01-28 Research News Do periodontal bacteria cause some cases of Alzheimer’s disease? Scientists at one start-up think so, and their investors are putting their money where their mouths are, moving forward with clinical development of a bacterial protease inhibi
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-01-25 Research News How is it that some people can have a brain full of plaques and tangles, yet somehow fend off dementia? By way of explanation, the concept of cognitive reserve tends to come up and now, two new postmortem studies suggest that physical fitnes
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-01-25 Research News As if we needed yet another reason to get a good night’s sleep. David Holtzman and colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis claim in the January 24 Science that tau in a person’s cerebrospinal fluid tapers off during sleep and spikes
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-01-25 Research News Rocking isn’t just for babies anymore—it can soothe slumbering adults, too. Two papers in the January 24 Current Biology online suggest that a gentle, rhythmic sway throughout the night promotes sleep and memory. In the first study, scientis
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-01-23 Research News The production of Aβ peptides from the amyloid precursor protein is a two-step affair: A first cut by the β-secretase (BACE) releases the extracellular portion of APP, leaving the C-terminal fragment (CTF) to find its way to γ-secretase for
