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Talking to your kids about alzheimer’s
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Not all dementia is Alzheimer’s
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In the U.S., older people with dementia are usually told they have Alzheimer’s disease.
But a range of other brain diseases can also impair thinking and memory and judgment, according to scientists attending a summit on dementias held Thursday and Friday at the National Institutes of Health.
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Now you have to worry about your extended family too
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Having a great-grandparent or even a cousin — referred to as “third-degree relatives” — with Alzheimer’s disease may raise your own risk of developing the disease, according to new research.
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Clicking sound and light to fight Alzheimer’s
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Fast clicking sounds can boost brainpower in mice with signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Like flickering lights, these external sounds spur a type of brain wave that seemed to sweep disease-related plaques from mice’s brains, researchers report in the March 14 Cell.
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Latest research findings on Alzheimer’s
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Next avenue has a great article about the latest theories concerning what causes Alzheimer’s. We link to it below. So far, the results have been beyond disappointing. A class of drugs called “acetylcholinesterase inhibitors” offer marginal functional improvements, but that’s been it. Things are starting to change, though.
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