How Cellular Aging Steals Desires and Joys

When you think about what your old age will be like, do images related to fragility and dependence come to mind or do you visualize an active life, in motion and enjoying the body and mind in fullness? Organic aging begins long before you see it on the outside or even from what you feel inside and is not something that appears overnight. But as Sari Arponen ( @drasariarponen ), PhD in Biomedical Sciences by the UCM, specialist in Internal Medici…

How Cellular Aging Steals Desires and Joys

Aging cells become "zombie cells," leaking inflammatory chemicals that reach the brain. This disrupts dopamine, serotonin, and reward circuits, causing depression.

A Different Way to Think About Medicine’s Most Stubborn Enigma

A new book shows that dementia isn’t just a loss, and memory is much more than recollection.

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Alzheimer’s Drug Demonstrates Good Tolerability Beyond Clinical Trials

In 2023, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rendered a groundbreaking decision by approving lecanemab, a novel therapeutic agent aimed at modifying the trajectory of Alzheimer’s disease. Unlike previous treatments that centered largely on symptomatic relief, lecanemab demonstrated in clinical trials the ability to modestly slow disease progression by targeting amyloid-beta plaques — protein aggregates considered central to the pathophysiolog…

The study has been developed by the Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior of the Faculty of Medicine of Ciudad Real