Category Archives: Research

Alzheimer anxiety and insomnia

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New research shows that medicine that gets prescribed routinely for anxiety or insomnia, may impact how susceptible you are for Alzheimer. For now they have established that there is a relationship between using these medicine and Alzheimer but it is not sure that the relationship is causal. More research necessary but a good reminder to be careful with these prescription drugs and the researchers have some recommendations about it in their report.

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Vitamin D and Alzheimer

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There seems to be considerable debate about the appropriate levels of vitamin D intake but recent research shows that having low levels of vitamin D clearly seems to be related with getting dementia and even more with developing Alzheimer.

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Yale needs volunteers for an Alzheimer study

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The Yale Alzheimer’s Disease Research Unit, part of the Yale School of Medicine, is participating in the NOBLE study and is looking for up to 20 volunteers with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s.

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New blood may help alzheimer

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Researchers at Stanford School of Medicine, California, will give a transfusion of blood plasma from young people to Alzheimer’s sufferers
They hope to see improvements in people with the condition
Human experiment builds on decades of research in mice
Animals studies have shown a protein in the blood plasma called growth differentiation factor 11 (GDF11) seems to be linked to rejuvenating effects

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Stanford on Alzheimer

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A good read from the staff of Stanford Medicine about their research progress into Alzheimer.

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