Monthly Archives: September 2014

A new study published in the British Medical Journal finds that anti-anxiety drugs may increase the risk of Alzheimer’s.

The drugs have been associated with short-term cognitive impairment, but the connection to Alzheimer’s has been less clear. Now, the new study finds a convincing, and apparently strong, link between benzodiazepines and Alzheimer’s disease.

New study using transgenic mice suggests how caffeine may protect the brain from Alzheimer’s.

Epidemiologic evidences support that habitual caffeine intake prevents memory decline during aging and reduces the risk to develop Alzheimer’s disease. So far, experimental studies addressed the impact of caffeine in models mimicking the amyloid pathology of AD. However, in vivo effects of caffeine in a model of AD-like tauopathy remain unknown.