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A new study from the UK Biobank shows that accumulating just a few minutes a day of moderate-to-vigorous activity that leaves you slightly breathless may lower the risk of eight major diseases, including heart disease, dementia, and diabetes. The research was conducted by an international…

The authoritative journal Nature Metabolism recently published a large study involving researchers from the University of Florida and other institutions. The researchers analyzed the medical records of nearly 60,000 patients with varying degrees of cognitive impairment between 2012 and 2024, and found that long-term use…

On April 4, 2026, the University of Oulu in Finland issued a press release announcing that its researchers had developed a fast, noninvasive new method to directly monitor changes in fluid circulation within the brain during human sleep, offering a new tool for studying how…

Senile dementia, also known as late-life dementia, is a severe cognitive disorder that onset in old age, often accompanied by marked impairment of social and daily functioning and varying degrees of neuropsychiatric symptoms. Patients show impairment of remote and recent memory, aphasia (difficulty understanding or…

In 1906, the German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer noticed some unusual changes in the brain of a female patient named Auguste D, who had died at the age of 51 from memory loss, disorientation, paranoia, and unpredictable behavior. After the patient's death, Alzheimer performed an autopsy…