Enhanced susceptibility of triple transgenic Alzheimer's disease (3xTg-AD) mice to acute infection.

Background: Infection is a recognised risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and can worsen symptoms in established disease. AD patients have higher rates of infection and are more likely to require hospital admissions due to infections than individuals without dementia. Infections have also been found to increase the risk of those over 84 years of age being diagnosed with dementia.

Crowded and sparse domains in object recognition: consequences for categorization and naming.

Some models of object recognition propose that items from structurally crowded categories (e.g., living things) permit faster access to superordinate semantic information than structurally dissimilar categories (e.