New blood test detects Alzheimer’s disease years earlier

Dementia has now taken the place of cancer as the second leading cause of death in Australia after heart disease. A team of scientists in Australia and Japan have developed the world’s first accurate blood test for detecting Alzheimer’s disease, which can identify the presence of the disease up to 20 years before symptoms begin.…

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‘Baby brain’ is a real phenomenon

We have all heard the old wives’ tale of women experiencing ‘baby brain’ during pregnancy. Symptoms are thought to include forgetting things, losing your train of thought or having trouble with planning. Recent research from Deakin University, published in the Medical Journal of Australia has looked at the scope of data across 20 studies, involving…

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Scientific breakthrough on objective diagnosis of PTSD

Findings from an Emory University, USA research study* released this week demonstrate a non-invasive protocol involving heart rate data and machine learning algorithms can accurately diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The Classification of post-traumatic stress disorder from heart rate variability metrics with heart rate-based window segmentation study, involving technology developed by Emory University and licensed…

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