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New research suggests that your general practitioner would be able to detect potential Alzheimer’s with a handshake.
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Category Archives: Detection
Some lesser known Alzheimer’s symptoms
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Do not miss the story in the Huffington post about some lesser known symptoms of Alzheimer’s. It is all in the link for today.
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See Alzheimer’s in their eyes
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A new study from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in the US offers important insight into how Alzheimer’s disease begins within the brain. The researchers found a relationship between inflammation, a toxic protein and the onset of the disease.
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Finally a cure?
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By the close of this year, the Indianapolis-based Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company Lilly , whose products have included the antidepressant Prozac and human insulin, will release the results of Expedition 3, a study testing a drug that targets amyloid in persons with mild stage dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease. Its subjects are unique. They don’t simply have Alzheimer’s disease diagnosed by a careful history and exam. They have a brain scan showing amyloid accumulation.
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Early warning signs
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Always an important topic and it can not hurt to remind you again of the early signs that can point to dementia or developing Alzheimer.
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Power outage causes Alzheimer’s?
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In new research appearing in the journal Alzheimer’s and Dementia, Diego Mastroeni, Paul Coleman and their colleagues at the ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center (NDRC) and the Biodesign Center for Bioenergetics investigate the role of mitochondria in Alzheimer’s disease pathology. Mitochondria act as energy centers for cells and are of central importance in health and disease.
The study builds on earlier work suggesting gene mutations affecting mitochondrial function may be critical in the development— and pitiless progression— of the disease.
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