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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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Alzheimer; News from the web:
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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Here is an excerpt that highlights a new book that has been published, challenging lots of common thinking about Alzheimer.
The Alzheimer Conundrum is a gem for young scientists and medical students, and it will challenge them to step back from traditional models, standardised diagnostic procedures and disease specificity to adopt a broader philosophical approach: when is a disease not a disease? When is pathology normal and when does a natural entity become pathological? Lock draws her evidence from detailed scrutiny of the literature, coupled with interviews of researchers of renown in this field and from many disciplines. Although the book is well written, it will be best suited to scholars familiar with biological taxonomy: terms such as “cleavage”, “syndrome”, “precursor protein” and “dendrite” are used assuming that the reader requires no explanation.
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We have highlighted the benefits of being busy with Art for patients with Alzheimer before but we are so enthusiastic about it that we have yet another story about it today.
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Alzheimer; News from the web:
We don’t often get to report good news on these pages, but here is a report that the incidence of Alzheimer among the elderly is definitively dropping.
Now it is a mixed message because the number of older people, like over 80, will significantly increase as a result of demographics so the number of Alzheimer cases will still increase.
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