The report states that vascular dementia is the second most frequent subtype of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease. Still, the two illnesses are different clinically.
Alzheimer’s
This new research, published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia, suggested that the cognitive impairments of COVID-19 presented similar fundamental changes within the brain to those showing evidence of dementia.
The researchers collected several thousand cells in each brain from a region of the brain that is affected by Alzheimer’s and ageing.
New findings out of Emory University are shaking theories of the origin of Alzheimer’s the leading cause of dementia among older adults worldwide.
Methylation of mRNA impairs the brain’s energy supply by interfering with the synthesis of ND5, a subunit of complex I of the respiratory chain.
Numerous immune system genes are among the altered genes that increase a person’s chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease
