Month: March 2022

Low Subicular Volume as an Indicator of Dementia-Risk Susceptibility in Old Age

IntroductionHippocampal atrophy is an established Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) biomarker. Volume loss in specific subregions as measurable with ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may reflect earliest pathological alterations.MethodsData from positron emission tomography (PET) for estimation of cortical amyloid β (Aβ) and high-resolution 7 Tesla T1 MRI for assessment of hippocampal subfield volumes were analyzed in […]

Published on March 3, 2022

Effectiveness of Physical Activity Interventions on Cognition, Neuropsychiatric Symptoms, and Quality of Life of Alzheimer’s Disease: An Update of a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

The topic of physical activity interventions for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has been discussed for decades, but there are still inconsistent views on the effect of its intervention in different studies. With the increase in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), it is necessary to update newly published studies and systematically evaluate the effects of […]

Published on March 3, 2022

Explaining semantic typology, forms and all

By modeling both meaning and form in terms of efficient communication, Mollica et al. advance the state of the art in explaining the restricted variation exhibited in the world’s languages. This opens an exciting path towards explanations of linguistic typology capturing the full richness of the form-meaning mappings in the world’s languages. Read Full Article […]

Published on March 3, 2022