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New biomarkers offer hope for Alzheimer

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An article has been published as supplement to the Journal of Alzheimer’s disease and it explores the development of imaging-based biomarkers that will have an impact on diagnosis before the disease process is set in motion.

Many of the detection tools we rely on today only help identify the issue once the disease symptoms are clearly visible, this research may provide a new way of detection that may in turn lead to a better understanding of the progression of the disease
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Possible breakthrough in Alzheimer research

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Scientist at the Harvard Medical School and researchers at the Queensland Brain Institute have found that the size of the mitochondria, the part responsible for metabolising energy in cells, matters and may cause the toxic proteins known as  Beta Amalloyd and Tau.

Apparently the larger the mitochondria the more difficult it is to travel along the nerve cells and those can be one meter in length. In tests with fruit flies and mice they have been able to test this relation between the size of the mitochondria and the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease.

The director of Queensland’s Centre for Ageing Dementia Research, Jurgen Gotz, says scientists have been able to successfully treat abnormal mitochondria in fruit flies and mice.

“By changing their size back to normal it’s possible to restore their function and also to prevent the new ones dying,” he said.

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Without a cure for Alzheimer, what can we do?

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The only protective factors against Alzheimer’s known so far appear to be increased physical activity or memory training

However frustrating it may be, there still isn’t a cure for Alzheimer’s disease and even the improved and advance scanning of the brains only serves to confirm that the disease is at a certain stage but the medicine to work at removing the stored proteins proved to be ineffective as by that time the disease is already too far down the path.

Countries with early retirement show a higher incidence of Alzheimer, pointing to a possible impact of remaining active to slow down the disease. Other research however still needs to confirm those findings and it has also been suggested that memory training does only that…..train the memory in the particular exercise used.

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Inherit Alzheimer protection

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Alzheimer protection may be passed on from generation to generation, according to a recent study from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York about the effects of C-reactive protein in elderly people and the incidence of Alzheimer in their families.

How much of this finding can be useful for current cases is unknown but with every piece or research we get closer to a full understanding of how the brain works and what can help us beating this terrible disease.

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Popcorn causes Alzheimer’s disease?

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Diacetyl, used to produce that buttery flavor in, among other foods, microwavable popcorn, may be a cause for Alzheimer’s disease.

University of Minnesota drug-design expert Robert Vince, PhD, and colleagues found that diacetyl causes brain proteins to misfold into the Alzheimer’s-linked form called beta amyloid. Vince’s team also found that diacetyl has an architecture similar to a substance that makes beta-amyloid proteins clump together in the brain — clumping being a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease.

Although other experts claim that popcorn itself can be considered a healthy food, putting the butter on it and shaking your salt pot to heavily will cancel out any nutritional benefits.

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Blood test for Alzheimer’s nearby

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Today we learn about a blood test in development that shows very positive signs of predicting Alzheimer’s. Although it is far from being ready at your local GP’s office, now there are ways to continue this development which will speed up the detection of this terrible disease.

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