Category Archives: Alzheimer Overview

Navigation trouble could be a signal

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Researchers compared the navigation performance of 202 volunteers without genetic Alzheimer’s risk and 65 volunteers with increased genetic risk. The latter had a specific expression of the gene for apolipoprotein E, the APOE-ε4 allele.

Source:
Ruhr-Universitaet-Bochum
Journal reference:
Bierbrauer, A., et al. (2020) Unmasking selective path integration deficits in Alzheimer’s disease risk carriers. Science Advances. doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba1394.

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It’s good to be a woman

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Women with Alzheimer’s live longer than men with the disease, and scientists at UC San Francisco now have evidence from research in both humans and mice that this is because they have genetic protection from the ravages of the disease.

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Alzheimer’s drug for Autistic kids?

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An interesting development is that apparently an experimental drug, aimed to help people with Alzheimer’s, could play a role in helping children with certain types of Autims. Read the full story in our link for today.

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A better test for Alzheimer’s

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Clinical trials of Alzheimer’s medicines have failed frequently but now researchers believe that this may have been caused by the drugs given too late. So if they could just develop a test that would detect Alzheimer’s earlier, it would make the drugs that have failed for use later in the process, so much more productive.

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Delay Drug for Alzheimer’s moves closer

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The first drug shown to potentially delay the progression of Alzheimer’s disease could be approved next year.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States said that aducanumab had been accepted for a priority review process.

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Look at dementia

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The dementia blog, has a wonderful competition for researchers to share pictures that show research progress in dementia. See the lovely pictures in our link for today.

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