dementia
In the beautifully restored main hall of the Gorton Monastery in Manchester, a man in a wheelchair starts singing ‘Danny Boy’. The man has dementia and is part of a weekly group that gives people living with the debilitating illness support through musical workshops. The man’s voice is beautiful. Timid at first, the supportive atmosphere brings him out of his shell until his deep tones echo across the monastery. The workshop is part of Music in Mind, a programme that’s been run by the Manchester Camerata in Gorton for 12 years, and is about to be rolled out for every borough in the Greater Man...
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Researchers have found that people who have two copies of a specific gene almost all develop signs of Alzheimer's disease, which could represent a distinct genetic form of the condition. While scientists knew the gene APOE4 was linked to an increased risk for Alzheimer's, a new study suggests that for people carrying two copies of the gene, it's an underlying cause of it. Published in Nature Medicine, the study also found that individuals with two copies of the gene develop the disease earlier than people with other variants of the APOE gene. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of deme...
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A smartphone app can be used for cognitive tests to diagnose the most common form of dementia for people under the age of 60. Researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) in the US found that remotely deployed smartphone tests could help to detect frontotemporal dementia in people who are genetically predisposed to it before symptoms start. Frontotemporal disorders or dementia (FTD) refers to several diseases of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain that typically affect people between the ages of 45 and 64. There are different symptoms of FTD including behavioural ch...
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A new study has found that our brains are getting larger, which could be good news for reducing dementia risk. Researchers from the University of California analysed data from a cohort in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) which started in 1948 in the US and originally consisted of 5,209 men and women between the ages of 30 and 62. The study has continued for 75 years, meaning that it now includes participants born during the 1930s through the 1970s. Though it was originally designed to study cardiovascular diseases, the researchers focused on MRI results of more than 3,200 people. Published in ...
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Scientists say stroke, diabetic nerve damage, and dementia are making neurological diseases the biggest cause of ill health globally. According to a recent study00038-3/fulltext#%20) published in the journal Lancet Neurology, researchers from the University of Washington in the US and their international collaborators say neurological conditions now affect 3.4 billion people worldwide. The global counts for total nervous system health loss have increased by 18.2 per cent from 375 million in 1990 to 443 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in 2021. Meet 'Viv,' the AI companion helping...
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An Australian care home is using an AI-powered robot assistant to provide comfort and companionship to dementia patients. The robot, named Viv, has learned the real experiences of dementia from four patients and is designed to relate to the patients, using a large language model (LLM). “Viv is an AI character, who we created with women with lived experience of dementia, and we created her first as a sort of interactive video experience," said Jill Bennett, the director of the Felt Experience and Empathy Lab (fEEL) at the University of New South Wales. "But when these large language model AI en...
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