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Apparently those who remember positive information over negative or neutral information may have more issues with memory. Read the surprising article in our link for today.
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Alzheimer’s reshapes the brain
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And thanks to a new imaging system we can see now exactly how.
Researchers at Yale University have led development in to a new type of brain scan designed to detect changes in synapses associated with common brain disorders. Until now, researchers have only be able to detect these changes during autopsies, but by combining a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan with a new type of injectable tracer, Yale radiology and biomedical imagining professor Richard Carson was able to measure the synaptic density in a living brain.
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Pain and Alzheimer’s
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A potentially dangerous side effect of Alzheimer’s seems to be that patients may loose their perception of being in pain.
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Legislation proposed for Alzheimer’s training
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Beware of the Alzheimer’s stereotypes
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The stereotype of Alzheimer’s is not factual—an end stage for 85-year-olds in a nursing home. As the great Bugs Bunny once observed (adopting a line from the writer Elbert Hubbard), “Like the man said: don’t take life too seriously. No one gets out of it alive.” Until we understand collectively that Alzheimer’s strikes people in the prime of life—individuals at first glance who seem just like you—there will be no critical mass to demand a cure for this disease that is poised to annihilate the Baby Boomer generation and generations to come.
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