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Evidence mounts that a long-term diet high in fat is not healthy.

Memory is impaired in aged rats after 3 days of high-fat eating

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

Lipid deposits (green) in brain immune cells (red) from mice with Alzheimer’s-like disease all but disappear (right) after the mice are treated with an experimental drug. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that a form of cholesterol known as cholesteryl esters builds up in the brains of mice with Alzheimer’s-like disease, and that clearing out the cholesteryl esters helps prevent brain damage and behavioral changes.

Lowering a form of brain cholesterol cuts Alzheimer’s-like damage in mice

Categories Brain & Behavior

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New vaccine may successfully target Alzheimer’s

Categories Brain & Behavior

Image of a vial of vaccine. Pixabay

Japanese vaccine may hold key to prevent or reduce the impact of Alzheimer’s disease

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

Man with drink in hand looking stressed out

How heavy alcohol consumption increases brain inflammation

Categories Brain & Behavior

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