Tracy Staedter | For the first time since Alzheimer’s disease reared its ugly head, scientists have found a potential tool for early diagnosis. Positron emission tomography, or PET, scanners can be used to track the progressive stages of the disease, even in adults who show no symptoms, report scientists at the University of California, Berkeley. …
Anmar Frangoul | Special to CNBC.com 6 Hours Ago CNBC.com Researchers in the U.K. have found that blocking a receptor in the brain that regulates immune cells could “protect against the memory and behavior changes seen in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.” According to a news release from the University of Southampton, the research by …
DIAGNOSIS RESEARCH: Learn why forgetfulness does NOT imply Alzheimer’s. Nobel laureate Dr. Eric Kandel discovered one central reason seniors become forgetful. He calls it “Age-Related Memory Loss“. Nothing to do with Alzheimer’s, it happens to the best of us. Find out why it occurs, even when we’ve got all our brain cells. A team of …
CARE TIPS: This season is a time filled with family and friends, laughter and reminiscing. Learn ways to prevent dementia’s stress, frustration, and loneliness. Fill the holiday with joy. Caring for a loved one with dementia during the holidays can be challenging, but with a little preparation, everyone can help bring out the full joy …
Get ahead of the legal & financial challenges of Alzheimer’s. This NIA Fact Sheet from the U.S. government is a great place to start. Legal and medical experts encourage people recently diagnosed with a serious illness—particularly one that is expected to cause declining mental and physical health—to examine and update their financial and health care …
BARCELONA – New, unpublished data from the FINGER multimodal lifestyle intervention study indicates that targeting nutrition, exercise, and metabolic and cardiovascular risk factors boosted overall cognitive performance, memory, and executive function to the greatest extent in elderly people at risk of cognitive decline who carried the apolipoprotein E–epsilon 4 allele. “The findings were especially clear …
Recent biomarker studies suggest that the pathological changes of Alzheimer disease (AD) start with Aβ deposition as early as 20 to 30 years prior to symptom onset,1 a window of time that holds promise for therapeutic intervention to reverse or slow down the disease. Aβ deposition is believed to be followed by tangle pathology and …
Alzheimer’s affects nearly 50 million people worldwide. As humans are living longer this number is targeted to reach 135 million by 2050. Unfortunately, a cure for Alzheimer’s has yet to be found. In recent years, however, Biogen has been pioneering studies that were more successful than those of other pharmaceutical competitors in the fight to slow the progression of …
Many people understand the desperation felt by family members of Alzheimer’s patients. For more than a hundred years, scientists have tried to find a cure for this disease that destroys the memory of more than 5.3 million Americans. A research team has even suggested that marijuana may help cure this debilitating disease. The frustratingly slow research into …
Julianne Moore won an Oscar last night for her heartbreaking portrayal of a woman with early-onset Alzheimer’s in Still Alice. At Brain Matters, we hope the movie will raise awareness about Alzheimer’s research. In that spirit, here is an editorial by Alzheimer’s researcher Dr. Julie Harris, courtesy of the Huffington Post: “While the …
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