Alzheimer; News from the web:
Medics have been undertaking tests to determine whether antidepressants can be used to treat Alzheimer’s disease, a condition for which there is no cure. The results to date are encouraging.
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Category Archives: Research
Anxiety can be a sign
Alzheimer; News from the web:
In a new study, experts found significant links between psychiatric issues like sleep disruption, anxiety, agitation, appetite changes and depression, and patterns of tan tangle burden.
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Should we look at Down’s for clues about Alzheimer’s?
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At first glance, Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease, two severe brain abnormalities, may seem to have little in common. Down syndrome is a hereditary disease, the source of which has long been recognized — a triplication of chromosome 21. By contrast, the overwhelming majority of Alzheimer’s cases (more than 95 percent) do not have a clear-cut genetic source. Instead, the disease, which usually becomes clinically apparent late in life, is caused by a perplexing constellation of factors. While these have been the focus of intense study for more than 100 years, few conclusive answers have come to light.
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Artificial Intelligence and Alzheimer’s Detection
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The Claim:
AI could spot Alzheimer’s five years before major symptoms appear
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Alzheimer’s computer similation
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For the first time, scientists have developed a computer simulation of how clumps of defective proteins in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s spread through the brain, much of the time in stealth mode, over as long as 30 years.
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Overly optimistic about a cure for Alzheimer’s?
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This is the most important column I’ve ever written. The message is quite complex–dozens of new health parameters to test for and to optimize, all of them interacting in ways that will require new training for MDs. The message is also as simple as it can be: There is a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. You can stop reading right here, and buy two copies of Dale Bredesen’s book, one for you and one for your doctor: The End of Alzheimer’s.
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