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In fact, docs sometimes detect Alzheimer’s using a “peanut butter test” — asking a patient if he or she can detect its strong odor when it is held up to the nose. Other clues: When an older woman wears a ton of perfume, not knowing how strong it is, or a man adds a lot of spicy tabasco sauce to food because he can’t taste or smell it.
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Scientists believe embedding tiny DNA sequencers into household products could trigger a healthcare revolution.
Silicon microchips capable of reading and encoding DNA – dubbed Nanopore sequencers – are now small enough to be built into TOOTHBRUSHES.
The technology could help thousands quickly detect the onset of a fatal disease, such as Alzheimer’s and cancer
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Dr. Lewis E. Winans, senior medical director at Reading Hospital, described Alzheimer’s as devastating and difficult to diagnose. Certainly, doctors don’t want to make the diagnosis until they are sure, he said.Talking to patients about Alzheimer’s is more difficult than talking about cancer, he said, because there has been so much medical progress in treating various cancers.”The problem is (with Alzheimer’s) there is no treatment to cure it,” Winans explained. “There is medicine that slows the progression.” –
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But when you forget what keys are for, that’s when you should start worrying. Read the article in the link for some tips to detect Alzheimer.
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Women who find it difficult to think and move at the same time, an ability required to perform everyday tasks such as driving a car are at a higher risk of contracting Alzheimer’s disease, suggests a new study.
The researchers at York University in Canada found a link between performance in such tasks and a communication problem between different brain regions that promote simultaneous thinking and moving.
The study, focused on women, was published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
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A clever new analysis has found that during his two terms in office, subtle changes in Mr. Reagan’s speaking patterns linked to the onset of dementia were apparent years before doctors diagnosed hisAlzheimer’s disease in 1994.
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