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Fast clicking sounds can boost brainpower in mice with signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Like flickering lights, these external sounds spur a type of brain wave that seemed to sweep disease-related plaques from mice’s brains, researchers report in the March 14 Cell.
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Research from the UK shows that lower scores on memory tasks were related to longer watching TV per day.
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Check out the project in the link for today. The claim is a novel process to find a way to immunize against Alzheimer’s disease. Not sure how this low budget will win from all the billions already spent by the large pharmaceutical companies but see for yourself.
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The way you sleep could be influencing your quality of rest, and choosing the right sleep position is crucial. You could get a better night’s sleep by regularly sleeping on your side – and it could even lower your chances of develop Alzheimer’s disease, it’s been claimed.
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Yes now we are at the stage that doctors are seriously think they may have found a way to prevent Alzheimer’s to happen. In May, doctors in New York will start testing a novel gene therapy
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A new study says hearing may play a critical role in brain power. We often just think it’s frustrating when we can’t hear well or if you have a spouse or a loved one that you have to repeat things to a lot. But now, a new study in Alzheimer’s and Dementia shows hearing loss is linked to cognitive decline, especially if you don’t get something such as hearing aids to boost it.
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Despite Roche’s recent trial failure for crenezumab, the ProMIS team remain confident a disease-modifying treatment will be found in the next decade.
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In a new study, researchers have found that a bacterium largely responsible for gum disease also contributes to the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
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In a small lab in Jackson Hole, Wyo., 65-year-old Paul Cox believes he’s closing in on a treatment that might prevent Alzheimer’s disease. And ALS. And a host of other neurodegenerative diseases, for that matter. Cox, we should point out, isn’t a neurologist. He isn’t a physician of any kind. He doesn’t work at a big drug company or an academic medical center or a government laboratory. His ideas come from so far outside the mainstream of neurological research that you might think he’s crazy or deluded or worse. But then, some very credible people think he might be on to something big—which might make the improbable, quixotic story you are about to read one of the most important as well.
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Recent reports from Mexico City indicate that this may be the case!
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Doing crossword puzzles and Sudoku does not appear to protect against mental decline, according to a new study.
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Whether royal jelly has genuine health benefits for humans is a matter for more research, but in a study scientists have cracked one of the most enduring puzzles surrounding the milky gloop: the secret behind its queen-maker magic.
The discovery promises to have an impact far beyond the niche field of melittology. Armed with the findings, scientists are now exploring potential new treatments for wounds and disorders such as muscle wastage and neurodegenerative disease.
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Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas said a new experimental Alzheimer’s disease vaccine showed promising results during recent testing in mice and are hopeful the vaccine will make it to human trials.
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Readers digest shares this nice list of things you can do to keep Alzheimer’s under control or away.
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“The MIND diet specifically limits red meat, butter and margarine, cheese, pastries and sweets, and fried or fast food,” said medical website WebMD.
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More and more information becomes available about the crucial nights sleep to stave off Alzheimer’s
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The NIHR University College London Hospitals (UCLH) Clinical Research Facility in the UK has initiated a clinical trial, DESPIAD, to assess a new treatment called miridesap for Alzheimer’s disease.
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Some tips from someone who studies Alzheimer’s!
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It may be too late to stop Alzheimer’s in people who already have some mental decline. But what if a treatment could target the very earliest brain changes while memory and thinking skills are still intact, in hope of preventing the disease? Two big studies are going all out to try.
Clinics throughout the United States and some other countries are signing up participants — the only studies of this type enrolling healthy older people.
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We’re told to be mindful about what we eat, what we eat is just as important for our bodies as it is for our brain. Chef KC, owner of Flora in West Hartofrd, and Jenilee Writz, a volunteer with The Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter, are showing us some foods that can help ward off Alzheimer’s.
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Air pollution may be linked to a heightened risk of developing dementia, finds a London-based observational study. The associations found couldn’t be explained by factors known to influence the risks of developing the condition, say the researchers.
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Studies published in July 2018 suggest that some cases of Alzheimer’s and some other types of dementia might be triggered by infection of brain cells with viruses, primarily the herpesviruses (especially human herpesvirus 6A).
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“I don’t want to raise false hopes,” Researcher Bloom said, but “if this idea of using memantine as a prophylactic pans out, it will be because we now understand that calcium is one of the agents that gets the disease started, and we may be able to stop or slow the process if done very early.”
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Is it good to get our hopes up with every bit of good news, or is the disappointment when it turns out not to be the magic bullet too much?
A promising new drug called BAN2401 generated a lot of excitement after a clinical trial found it slowed the progression of Alzheimer’s by 30%, but recent revelations have left investors and doctors with more questions than answers, reports Bloomberg.
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It cleans the brain in many ways but for now see the article in the link for today about how plaques, that are related to alzheimer’s disease, are washed during your sleep.
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There is no solid evidence that vitamin D protects against Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and other neurodegenerative diseases.
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Researchers say a type of iron called magnetite shows up in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s. Figuring out why could lead to new treatments for the disease.
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read the article by Richa Bhatia M.D.
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