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What is Jalisco mutation?
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Jalisco gene mutation causes early-onset Alzheimer’s. There is only 1 percent of Alzheimer’s patients who have genetic mutations known to cause the disease.
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Alzheimer’s detection device
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University of Minnesota researchers have created new technology aimed at making it easier to detect the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.
Researchers from the Center for Drug Design used a camera to gather images of light interacting with the retina, which can catch Alzheimer’s in its early stages, the Minnesota Daily reported.
“Our goal is to detect the disease as early as we can, which will help in the progression and the success of treatments as well as drug discovery,” said Swati More, a university professor and co-lead researcher on the project.
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Cognitive charts to determine Alzheimer’s risk
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A simple new tool that tracks cognitive performance in adults aims to help physicians identify people who may be on the path to Alzheimer disease or another form of dementia. The tool, called the QuoCo (cognitive quotient), is published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
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After the diagnosis
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……..It’s not always bad. There’s good research on this about happiness and diagnoses. When people get diagnosed with a chronic terminal medical condition, oftentimes their mood can decrease, but if you give it enough time, usually they kind of bounce back a little bit – they start to cope with this,……
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Leave it to Bill!
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It’s one of the holy grails of science: a cure for Alzheimer’s. Currently, there is no treatment to stop the disease, let alone slow its progression. And billionaire Bill Gates thinks he will change that.
“I believe there is a solution,” he told me without hesitation.
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