How to Use neurodegenerative in a Sentence
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When things go wrong, misfolded proteins can form plaques in the brain, a process that is thought to be the cause of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
—Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2023
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The first patient has ALS, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
—Alena Botros, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2022
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The study is the first from the UK to look at the neurodegenerative disorder in a largely diverse population.
—Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Health.com, 1 Apr. 2022
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The therapies are part of an emerging field of research that tries to use the body’s own immune system to fight neurodegenerative diseases.
—Fortune, 2 July 2021
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Research is mounting that this type of entrenched loneliness is bad for our health and can even change our brains, raising the risk for neurodegenerative diseases.
—Dana G. Smith, New York Times, 9 May 2024
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The infected deer was killed by a hunter in 2021 and sampled at that time for chronic wasting disease, a type of neurodegenerative disorder that affects deer, elk and moose.
—Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
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Researchers showed that even slight blows to the head, when repeated often enough, could result in long-term neurodegenerative disease.
—New York Times, 1 Mar. 2022
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There was up to a 7% reduction in risk of death by neurodegenerative disease, such as dementia.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 9 Jan. 2023
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In this role, it's linked to fending off hardening of the arteries, as well as neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease.
—Cynthia Sass, Rd, Health.com, 20 Apr. 2021
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But if someone has a neurodegenerative condition, the proteins dislodge from the neurons and can get into the bloodstream.
—ABC News, 7 Nov. 2021
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The company threw in the towel on its painkiller dreams in 2019, changed its name to Cassava, and refocused on Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.
—Cristin Flanagan, Fortune, 9 June 2021
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The rest of people living with FTD tend to have a history of neurodegenerative disease in their family.
—Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 18 Feb. 2023
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Doing so helped mice with a neurodegenerative disease live longer and move about more normally.
—Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 20 Mar. 2022
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More than a half dozen blood tests are being developed and tested to detect signs of the neurodegenerative disease in older patients.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
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No other treatment that’s designed to target the roots of the neurodegenerative illness had ever made it that far in the development gantlet, so there was a ton of hope and excitement imbued in the study.
—Andrew Joseph, STAT, 13 Apr. 2021
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There are more than 170 clinical uses — including for neurodegenerative disorders and tumors of the brain, breast, lung, prostate and more — and the field is growing, Kassell said.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN, 15 Jan. 2023
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And follow-up studies are far easier to complete when the disease is cancer, not a neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer's.
—Elisabeth Rosenthal, Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
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The fund will be used for research and training in neurodegenerative diseases, to promote education and improve the care and treatment of patients and their families.
—Julie Washington, cleveland, 8 June 2021
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Kyle Brown, whose comic segments on a popular Salt Lake City radio show gave way to honest accounts of his battle with a neurodegenerative disease, has died.
—Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
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The neurodegenerative disease causes patients to lose muscle control, spreading through the body until the patient dies.
—Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Feb. 2022
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Alzheimer’s, a neurodegenerative disease, is the most common type of dementia.
—Betsy Morris, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2022
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The ratio dropped after the cosmonauts returned, a trend that is sometimes seen in people with a neurodegenerative condition.
—ABC News, 7 Nov. 2021
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Olfactory loss is one of the initial symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
—Hannah Docter-Loeb, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2023
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Mitchell was diagnosed with ALS, a neurodegenerative disease, more than five years ago, according to a statement posted to his Instagram page.
—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2024
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At this time, there are no approved therapies to prevent the onset of these neurodegenerative diseases in those with REM sleep behavior disorder.
—The Conversation, oregonlive, 29 May 2023
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The retired actor, 63, has been a devoted Parkinson’s disease activist since he was diagnosed with the long-term neurodegenerative disease at age 29.
—Angela Yang, NBC News, 30 June 2024
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For the last several years, Selma Blair has been very open about her journey with multiple sclerosis, the neurodegenerative disease she was diagnosed with in 2018.
—Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 11 May 2022
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That could mean that a host of diseases—including chronic conditions such as heart disease and even neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s—could be treated in large part by reversing the aging process that leads to them.
—Alice Park, Time, 12 Jan. 2023
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These drugs, called acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, can help treat neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s.
—Rebecca Sohn, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2022
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Barring any brain injury or neurodegenerative disease (Alzheimer’s and its ilk), one’s vocabulary, general storehouse of facts, and recall of how to do things, such as knitting and skiing, remain robust—and may even improve—into old age.
—Ezekiel J. Emanuel, The Atlantic, 5 July 2024
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