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Diabetes and smoking are vascular risk factors associated with hippocampal calcification in older patents with memory issues

Vascular Risk Factors for Brain Calcification in Seniors Identified

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Hippocampal calcifications associated with diabetes and smoking in patients visiting a memory clinic
Having a greater number of modifiable cardiovascular risk factors at recommended levels is associated with higher cerebral vessel density and caliber

Cardiovascular Health Tied to Brain Function in Younger Adults

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Higher cerebral vessel density and caliber with more CV risk factors at recommended levels
Area-level deprivation is an independent risk factor for cognitive dysfunction in older adults

Living in Deprived Area Is Risk Factor for Cognitive Dysfunction

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Area-level deprivation factors independently tied to cognitive dysfunction risk in older adults
Cognitive disability is the most prevalent disability type among young adults

Cognitive Disability Most Prevalent Type in Young Adults

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Disability-specific disparities prevalent in access to health care, especially for young, middle-aged adults
Pediatric patients with chronic kidney disease have higher global cerebral blood flow and regional differences in cerebral blood flow

Cerebral Blood Flow Changes in Pediatric Patients With CKD

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Pediatric patients with CKD showed higher global CBF attributed to reduced hematocrit level
People who feel younger than their age show fewer signs of brain aging than those who feel their age or older than their age

Feeling Young May Be Reflected in Brain Structure

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Those who feel younger than their real age actually have less brain aging
Higher average late-life blood pressure is associated with an increased number of brain infarcts

Late-Life Blood Pressure Tied to Higher Number of Brain Infarcts

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Odds of having one or more infarcts also increased with more rapidly declining SBP slope over time
A new approach to getting drugs through the blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer's patients shows early promise

Focused Ultrasound May Briefly Open Blood-Brain Barrier

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Finding could be a game-changer for the treatment of neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's
Compassion meditation can increase the visual preference for suffering while attenuating neural responses in regions of the brain associated with valence and empathic distress

Compassion Training May Up Resilience to Others’ Suffering

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Decreases neural responses in amygdala, regions sensitive to valence, empathic distress
Obstructive sleep apnea is associated with changes to the structure of the brain that are seen in the early stages of dementia

Sleep Apnea Linked to Changes in the Brain in Older Adults

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Disturbed sleep linked to increased thickness in right postcentral gyrus, pericalcarine, pars opercularis