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Scientists are making progress in the development of better tests to tell who has Alzheimer’s
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A PET scan can help with Alzheimer’s
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From a reader of the Washington Post:
As an Alzheimer’s advocate for 15 years, I speak from personal experience about the value of leveraging diagnostic tools when confronted with Alzheimer’s disease. A study shared at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in London found that underuse of imaging scans drives additional health-care costs.
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Your sleeping pattern and Alzheimer’s
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One in three Americans doesn’t get enough sleep, and 45% of the world’s population doesn’t, either. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls that a “public health problem,” because disrupted sleep is associated with a higher risk of conditions including diabetes, stroke and cardiovascular disease. See what CNN has to tell us in the link for today.
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The earliest stage of Alzheimer’s discovered
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Paul Aisen, senior author of the study and director of the USC Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute (ATRI) at the Keck School of Medicine. “This study is a significant step toward the idea that elevated amyloid levels are an early stage of Alzheimer’s, an appropriate stage for anti-amyloid therapy.”
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Uh Oh, there may be a lot more Alzheimer’s cases in the US!
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Alzheimer’s disease begins years before mental deterioration is detected, a new study suggests. This finding could result in doubling the estimated number of people with the neurodegenerative disease
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Can your cellphone detect your Alzheimer’s?
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Not yet:
doctors can’t yet diagnose someone from afar with only smartphone data. Before we can use these new sources of data to inform clinical decision-making, we need to overcome some significant technical challenges.
But it is definitively coming read the interesting story.
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