Tag: Dementia
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Inflammation Keeps Us Alive. It’s Also Making Us Sick. – The New York Times
Another obstacle, until recently, was a longstanding belief that the immune systems of the brain and body were separate. Anatomically speaking, there didn’t appear to be any lymph vessels in the brain to allow communication with the immune system. Then, in 2015, Jonathan Kipnis and his colleagues found a network of tubes hidden in the…
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How dementia is being defeated
whereas 40 years ago three in every ten Americans aged 85-89 had dementia, by 2024 just one in ten had it (see chart 1). What is more, America is not the only beneficiary of this trend. Between 1988 and 2015 the share of older people being diagnosed with dementia fell by 13% a decade across…