Category Archives: Alzheimer Overview

More trouble in Alzheimer Association’s land

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As we feared, the first chapter from the Alzheimer’s Association has decided to disassociate to avoid being centralized. Although there will be pros and cons to centralization and how you run the programs, the thing that will really divide the efforts to combat this terrible disease is when chapters go independent and the Alzheimer’s Association starts a new centralized chapter right next to it to ensure national coverage.

Folks, we are about to waste lots of money, effort and goodwill.

At this moment you have the national Alzheimer’s Association and then there is the New York Chapter and about 53 other chapters. Potentially, if none of them wants to be centralized, there could be around 100 different organizations all trying to accomplish the same. What a waste!

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In short Alzheimer’s is still a mystery

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Some get it, some progress rapidly from early dementia to the full blown disease, some have a brain full of the plaques but don’t have any signs of dementia.

Life style seems to have an impact but much remains a mystery. Read up on some interesting research.

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What is reversible Dementia?

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More than 50 conditions can cause or imitate the symptoms of dementia. A small percentage of dementias are reversible, meaning the symptoms subside and the underlying problem is treated.

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Light therapy for Alzheimer’s

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A Korean research team jointly led by Professor Chan Beum Park of the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Dr. Kwon Yu from the Bionano Center at the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) conducted research to suppress an abnormal assembly of beta-amyloids, a protein commonly found in the brain, by using photo-excited porphyrins.

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