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Category Archives: Alzheimer Overview
Moving forward to prevention
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Where the researchers once could only diagnose Alzheimer after a patient’s death with an autopsy, these days we can see the disease progress with brainscans and can treat it with inserting medicine directly into the brain. Yet the best shot at getting Alzheimer under control, while 35 million people worldwide now suffer from this disease, is to switch the efforts to prevention.
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Laugh about Alzheimer (for once)
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Huffington post brings you some funny stories about Alzheimer. Good to laugh about this otherwise so devastating disease.
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Early Onset Alzheimer
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An estimated 5.4 million americans suffer from early onset Alzheimer. This represents about 10% of all who suffer from Alzheimer.
- Severity: The symptoms of Alzheimer’s – memory loss, intellectual and behavioural disorders – take a more aggressive course in younger victims.
- Speed: Rather than progressing over 10 to 15 years, as is the case with older patients, young-onset Alzheimer’s takes only a few years to reach an advanced stage. Mortality rates vary, but “people usually die after eight years,” says Yves Agid, a renowned neurologist and neuroscientist.
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Maria Carrillo about Alzheimer
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Maria Carrillo, a sr director at the Alzheimer association, provides a special at CNN about Alzheimer. She tells about the 5.4 Million American who live with Alzheimer’s disease and makes it personal by talking about her own mother in law who suffers from the disease.
She then goes on to talk about the National Plan to get Alzheimer’s disease under controle by 2025. The plan covers the spectrum of Alzheimer’s issues, including treatment and prevention, clinical care, support for families in their homes and communities as well as public education and engagement.
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Alzheimer gene may cause blood leak in brains
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Researchers at the University of Rochester have identified a gene linked to Alzheimer`s disease which they say also causes a cascade of events that end with leaky blood vessels in the brain, pouring large amounts of toxic substances into brain tissue.
The scientists found that the gene, called ApoE4, works through cyclophilin A, known to be bad for the cardiovascular system, causing inflammation in atherosclerosis and other conditions.
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