Category Archives: Alzheimer Overview

When is forgetfulness dementia?

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“I think it’s almost universal that we forgot where we put the keys, we forgot someone’s name. That just happens all the time. If you have a precedence for those things, that’s not Alzheimer’s,” Dr. Jon Hallberg told MPR News host Tom Crann. “But if you take those things, plus you don’t remember what you said two minutes ago and someone says, ‘You just told me that,’ you’re driving and you don’t know where you are, you forget what things are used for, then some form of dementia might be happening.”

Hallberg, medical director of the University of Minnesota Physicians Mill City Clinic, said that’s when you should see a doctor.

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A possible vaccine for Alzheimer’s

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As of now, a cure for Alzheimer’s Disease does not exist, but researchers at the University of New Mexico believe they have found a way to prevent it. “I really wanted to take this as a challenge to see if we could develop any sort of treatment,” says Kiran Bhaskar.

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Is There a Link Between Menopause and Alzheimer’s?

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Mosconi is an associate professor of neuroscience in neurology and radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, where she also serves as director of the Women’s Brain Initiative and associate director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic.

Read the interview with her below

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Know the signs and talk about it

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A survey released this week by the Alzheimer’s Association finds that nearly 90 percent of Americans say they would want others to tell them if they were showing signs of memory loss or other symptoms of dementia. And yet, nearly three quarters of Americans say having that conversation would be “challenging” for them.

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