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On a remote Greek island in the Aegean, K. and K. have built their life that includes a small bookstore and a beautiful house. They face many difficulties, not having access to things that seem self-evident to those of us in big cities, but they decided to stay put and fight. Then their son was born and their problems started to grow. A.

WEESP, Netherlands - On a recent morning in this quiet village outside Amsterdam, an older woman stocked shelves inside the local supermarket. In the plaza just outside the store, a group of men sat around a table, chatting the hours away. Over in the town square, a woman in a hijab sipped coffee outside the cafe.

A robot that uses artificial intelligence has been developed by a lab at Macedonia University in northern Greece to provide support to autistic children.

A Slovenian-German-Dutch team of scientists has identified a modification of a protein which plays a role in early-onset frontotemporal dementia, an important insight into the causes of the disease that could lead to the development of new strategies to treat it.

The Slovenian neuroscience company BrainTrip has presented a new dementia screening test that will help doctors detect the disease early. An early diagnosis can increase treatment options, experts say.

The number of people living with dementia will increase by 2030 from the current 55 million to 78 million, and by 2050 - to 139 million. This is the forecast of the World Health Organization (WHO), published in Geneva.

Every year on April 2, the United Nations celebrates World Autism Awareness Day with the sole motive to spread awareness among the people about autism. Raising awareness will help people understand and accept those who are suffering from autism, support them, and spread kindness.

A person's strength may vary from season to season, but the peak of cognitive activity is in the fall. The results of a study by scientists from the United States, Canada, France and Israel show this. They have conducted cognitive and concentration tests among 3,500 respondents over 60, according to Coffee Pause.

With addition of 4.6 million new cases every year, the number of people affected by Alzheimer's disease or dementia is expected to double in next 20 years.

Scientists researching dementia and Alzheimer's disease are shifting their focus to a series of proteins that build up in the brain like debris and have a toxic impact on cells, a development that may help improve diagnoses and therapy.