Alzheimer; News from the web:
British researchers have found that if patients drink a liter of silicon rich mineral water per day for 13 weeks, the cognitive decline either stops or improves in a majority of them.
The water seems to flush the aluminum levels in the body, which helps to keep the development of plaques and tangles down that create the cognitive decline.
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For me a surprising news item; it turns out that people with Alzheimer have difficulty noticing differences between different objects. Apparently the part of the brain that stores temporary memories short term also plays a role in recognizing objects.
Here is a potential use:
The results indicate that, under certain circumstances, reducing “visual clutter” might help MCI patients perform everyday activities.
For example, telephone buttons tend to be the same size and color. Only the numbers are different — a very slight visual difference for a person who struggles with object perception. Perhaps a phone with varying sized buttons and different colors would help.
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Until now we have always found that the presence in the brain of hyper active astrocytes probably increases the rate of the development of the feared amyloid plaques. A new study however has found that, in mice, reducing the hyper activity of the astrocytes actually increases the amyloid plaques. So now the plan is to see if we can manage the efficient working of the astrocytes to give them a hand in keeping the amyloid plaques under control.
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Researchers have found that the during sleep, and even under anesthesia, part of the brain behaves as if it’s remembering something. This is a new find in animal studies and there is no guarantee that the same will be true in humans but it looks like entorhinal cortex remains active during sleep and even under anesthetics ! This is a bit like my computer clearing out old temp files and doing backup jobs while I’m sleeping.
The findings are interesting and may open yet another avenue for further study.
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Georgia Tech researchers have created a tool that allows adults to screen themselves for early signs of dementia. The home-based computer software is patterned after the paper-and-pencil Clock Drawing Test, one of health care’s most commonly used screening exams for cognitive impairment.
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A study with mice over six months has give some insights that may become important for our battle against dementia. It turns out that treatment with exercise and melatonin helps to keep the disease at bay or even showed a regress of symptoms.
Now don’t jump for joy yet, in humans the disease takes years to develop so by the time symptoms become visible the brain is already badly damaged but nevertheless we encourage every piece of good news.
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