U.S. News & World Report featured a study by Margaret Gatz, Andrei Irimia and colleagues that found very low rates of dementia in two Amazonian indigenous groups. “Something about the pre-industrial subsistence lifestyle appears to protect older Tsimane and Moseten from dementia,” said Gatz, the

As scientists around the world seek for solutions for Alzheimer’s disease, a new study reveals that two indigenous groups in the Bolivian Amazon have among the lowest rates of dementia in the world. An international team of researchers found among older Tsimane and Moseten people,

Brain changes in people with Alzheimer’s disease and in those with mild traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) have significant similarities, a new USC study shows, suggesting new ways to identify patients at high risk for Alzheimer’s. The findings appear this week in GeroScience. TBIs, which affect