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In short; the AI won.
Read for some more information about how AI improves the reading of MRI and enhances the diagnostics when looking for Alzheimer’s
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Four trials go to human phase!
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Ionis and Biogen are bringing to bear the Ionis drug technology called antisense, which targets diseases processes at the genetic level. It blocks or modifies production of proteins involved in disease.
The Phase 1/2a study of the Alzheimer’s drug, IONIS-MAPTRx, seeks evidence of safety and signs of activity. It’s to be given in 44 patients with mild Alzheimer’s over three months.The drug targets microtubule-associated tau protein, also called MATP, or tau, an abnormal protein associated with Alzheimer’s.
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Alzheimer’s is a young or middle-aged person’s disease
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“Alzheimer’s disease starts in the brain more than twenty years before the first symptom,” said Richard Isaacson, director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic at New York-Presbyterian/Weill-Cornell Medical Center. “Alzheimer’s disease is not an older person’s disease. It’s a disease of younger and middle-aged people. And that’s how we have to shift the paradigm.”
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Not knowing you are loosing memory, predicts Alzheimer’s
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While memory loss is an early symptom of Alzheimer’s disease, its presence doesn’t mean a person will develop dementia. A new study has found a clinically useful way to predict who won’t develop Alzheimer’s disease, based on patients’ awareness of their memory problems.
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Two tests to predict Alzheimer’s
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The AARP notified me of two tests that may predict Alzheimer’s.
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The Holidays are the time to spot Alzheimer’s
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During the holidays, families come together from near and far to celebrate the season. Often it is also a time when family members begin to notice subtle changes in loved ones that were not apparent before.
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