Tag: Dementia
Webcams in nursing home rooms may deter elder abuse – but...
Clara Berridge, University of Washington and Karen Levy, Cornell University
Mary Ann Papp’s daughter Lisa was worried about her 75-year-old mother.
A foot infection seemed to...
An unexpected pathway to treating neurodegenerative diseases
Kenneth S. Kosik, University of California, Santa Barbara
Scientific success stories can sometimes occur when therapies being studied for one disease can be used to...
Improving the lives of those with dementia – by using memories...
Michael Ego, University of Connecticut
Dementia can be caused by a number of diseases, but the most common is Alzheimer’s, which affects 5.7 million people...
Test-driving the brain could reveal early signs of Alzheimer’s
By Brian Murphy, Queen's University Belfast
In some ways the human brain is like a well-oiled car engine, purring along without being noticed, until something...