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Picture shows Wolfgang Porsche, 79, and his wife Claudia Porsche , 74, at their wedding in 2019. He has filed for divorce from his wife because of a dementia-like illness that has existed for two years and has led to a change in Claudia Porsche's personality. (Newsflash)

Porsche Magnate Files For Divorce Over Wife’s Dementia

Post author:William McGee
Post published:March 27, 2023

Porsche executive Wolfgang Porsche has filed for divorce from his wife because she has dementia. The 79-year-old Porsche family member is reported to have filed for divorce from his 74-year-old…

Developer Eran Lumbroso holds a mouse during a demonstration at The 2nd International Conference of Israel Homeland Security expo on November 12, 2012 in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Uriel Sinai/Getty)

Scientists Succeed In Reversing Alzheimer’s In Mice

Post author:Simona Kitanovska
Post published:August 24, 2022

Alzheimer's has been reversed in mice after scientists boosted the formation of new brain cells. A gene therapy fueled neurons in the hippocampus - a region vital for learning and…

Illustration shows neuroanatomical patterns of the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia in an undated photo. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences discovered similarities between schizophrenia and dementia as reported on Aug. 4, 2022. (Nikos Koutsouleris/Newsflash)

Similarities Between Schizophrenia And Dementia Confirm 120-Year-Old Theory For 1st Time

Post author:Alice Amelia Thomas
Post published:August 19, 2022

New research has found a link between dementia and schizophrenia that has confirmed a theory that is more than 120 years old and was previously refuted by the scientific community.…

People Who Are Bilingual Have Brains That Age More Slowly

Post author:Shantanu Guharay
Post published:May 2, 2022

The ability to keep the brain fit by speaking more than one language could be one of the best ways to stop brain ageing, according to new research by boffins…

University of Leipzig biologist and sub-project leader in the Collaborative Research Center 1052 "Mechanisms of Obesity" Dr Veronica Witte who investigates obesity causes, prevention and therapy in Germany. (Kerstin Flake/Newsflash)

Podgy Middle-Agers Have Higher Risk of Dementia Says Study

Post author:Thomas Hochwarter
Post published:April 11, 2022

Overweight middle-aged people have a higher risk of suffering from dementia at an advanced age, a German study shows. PD Dr Veronica Witte, 41, is a biologist at Leipzig University.…

The will of Baroness Luise von Feilitzsch, was written in 2016 to name her lawyer, former Bavarian Finance Minister Georg von Waldenfels, 76, her sole heir, excluding her daughter.

Daughter Sues After Baroness With Dementia Leaves Estate Worth Millions To Her Lawyer

Post author:Joseph Golder
Post published:September 17, 2021

A 95-year-old German baroness cut her daughter out of her will and decided to give her estate worth millions to a lawyer - but her will has raised suspicions after…

Mr van Duin, aged 102, is one of the persons who signed up for the research into ageing and dementia as he comes from a family in which almost everyone seems to reach a high age without suffering from dementia

Dementia Hope As Scientists Find Rare Gene

Post author:Koen Berghuis
Post published:May 31, 2019

Scientists have discovered a rare gene that allows people to live past 100 without suffering from dementia and now they hope to use it to create drugs to end the…