Alzheimer; News from the web:
By using electrode implants to track nerve cells firing in the brains of rats as they plan where to go next, scientists say they have learned that the mammalian brain likely reconstructs memories in a way more like jumping across stepping stones than walking across a bridge. The research sheds light on what memories are and how they form, and gives clues about how the system can fail.
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Alzheimer; News from the web:
A 15-year-old school student has developed a test which could give up to 10 years warning of Alzheimers before symptoms even start to show.
Krtin Nithiyanandam, a pupil at Sutton Grammar school, developed a ‘trojan horse’ antibody which can enter the brain and latch onto neurotoxic proteins, identifying the disease in advance
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Alzheimer; News from the web:
New research indicates that it may be the complications with diabetes that trigger the link with Alzheimer’s.
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Alzheimer; News from the web:
A problem in a geriatric environment is the reliance on spouse and environment reported behavior to identify Alzheimer’s. Now they have developed a virtual reality tool that may help in better detecting Alzheimer’s in an early stage.
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Alzheimer; News from the web:
Research from Johns Hopkins University, Duke University and Utah State University shows that caregivers of someone with dementia are six times more likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s as well.
“Long-term married people have the same diet, health habits, exercise habits. They have the same stressors and lifestyles. It can also be attributed to the stress of caring for a loved one and seeing them deteriorate,”.
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Alzheimer; News from the web:
A smart business man bought a drug that the big companies didn’t think would work, combined it with another drug and now has an approval process going for a drug that could help people with Alzheimer’s. A story of money and second chances.
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