Alzheimer; News from the web:
CBS highlights the story about new research that suggests that beginning feelings of loneliness may indicate a simmering Alzheimer’s disease.
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Category Archives: Detection
For brain screening, check my eyes.
Alzheimer; News from the web:
Diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) may manifest as pathological changes in the retina of the eye. Research from the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) shows that retinal changes may be detected earlier than brain changes. Findings from mouse models suggest that eye examination could be used as a noninvasive screening tool for human brain diseases.
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Alzheimer’s predicted by genes!
Alzheimer; News from the web:
The great majority of people will eventually develop Alzheimer’s if they don’t die of something else first.
“That’s a fundamental insight that is different in this than in other studies out there — so-called polygenic risk scores, where you look at the disease as either something you’re going to get or not,”
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Do Hispanics have a different form of Alzheimer’s?
Alzheimer; News from the web:
New research shows that there may be a difference in how Alzheimer
“Our study shows that the severity and proportion of neuropsychiatric symptoms is significantly higher in a Hispanic group compared to non-Hispanic whites,” says lead researcher Ricardo Salazar, M.D., a geriatric psychiatrist at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso (TTUHSC El Paso). “This could have a significant impact on the treatment and understanding of how Alzheimer’s disease progresses in Hispanics.”
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Alzheimer’s it is not just the memory!
Alzheimer; News from the web:
In our link for today you can find an article that addresses the subtle symptoms of early Alzheimer’s that are mostly overlooked as everyone seems to be focusing on memory loss only.
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Alzheimer’s will be reversible (it worked with mice!)
Alzheimer; News from the web:
Research carried out by a team at University College London andrecently reported in the journal Current Biology details how molecular changes at the synapse damage memory and suggests ways that the memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s may be prevented and possibly reversed.
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