Prevalence, Deaths and Disability-Adjusted Life Years Due to Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias in Middle East and North Africa, 1990–2021

Flashes of lucidity before death: The debate shaking up neuroscience

“My mother had advanced Alzheimer’s. She no longer recognized us and seemed indifferent to the strangers who visited her once or twice a week. The day before she died, however, everything changed. Not only did she recognize us, but she wanted to know what had happened to each of us in the past year.” The testimony of a German woman, collected in 2019 by Alexander Batthyány, director of the Viktor Frankl Institute in Vienna, highlights a case of …

Prevalence, deaths and disability-adjusted life years due to Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias in Middle East and North Africa, 1990–2021

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) ranks among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The objective was to evaluate the burden of AD and other dementias among the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by age and sex from 1990 to 2021. The data were sourced from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study 2021. The estimates are presented as counts and age-standardised rates per 100,000 accompanied by 95% uncertainty in…

Alzheimer’s disease and the various dementias

Dementia is an umbrella term that alludes to various conditions arising from damage to brain cells that affect the cells’ ability to communicate. This damage can affect a person’s ability

Progress in Alzheimer’s disease

After more than one century from Alois Alzheimer and Gaetano Perusini’s first report, progress has been made in understanding the pathogenic steps of