Alzheimer on the road

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In Australia they have understood what risks can occur when people with alzheimer are participating in traffic. It is dangerous for people with advance dementia to drive and family members are urged to talk to them and have their driving assessed.

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Alzheimer is not alone

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In fact there are dozens of brain wasting diseases but Alzheimer is the most known one. It is now the third cause of death in Washington. As our populations grows and lives longer, the number and percentage of people developing Alzheimer will grow too. And we have still no cure!

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Alzheimer research moving to humans

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At present, the analysis of tau proteins, one of the most active areas of Alzheimer’s research, often requires the use of hundreds of animals, is time consuming and expensive and can produce results that may not translate beneficially to humans.

The Aston Center for Healthy aging’s impending study will develop a research method based upon testing human stem cells instead of transgenic mice. It is hoped this new procedure will help scientists predict with greater accuracy the effectiveness of the latest drugs intended to combat the onset of Alzheimer’s.

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DDT and Alzheimer

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Jason Richardson, an associate professor at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, said their research indicates DDT may be responsible for causing plaques to form in brain cells through its harmful byproduct dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene, or DDE.

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Crazy? or is it early onset Alzheimer?

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A diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease can be difficult to determine since each person is affected differently, and can have a variety of symptoms. Symptoms can be wrongly believed to be stress-related, for instance.

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