The couple of papers that I would like to point out to our readers are strictly related, and their relevance stream out of the fact that at least 1 person is diagnosed every minute with neurodegenerative dementia ( mainly Alzheimer’s disease, but FTD and Lewy Body Disease as well), but scientists have not yet found a cure for both the disease itself and/or its symptoms progression.
One paper has been published early online in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia, with Lori Daiello from Rhode Island as principal investigator, and suggests that fish oil supplements reduce incidence of cognitive decline and brain atrophy in older adults, provided that they do not show dementia at entry, and that they do not carry the APOE-4 gene.
This last point brings in this SCIENCE AVALANCHE the review paper The forgetting gene, by Laura Spinney, in Nature, June 2014, where the APOE-4 gene story, from 1991 to date, as an important risk factor for neurodegenerative dementia is nicely reported.
