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Not yet:
doctors can’t yet diagnose someone from afar with only smartphone data. Before we can use these new sources of data to inform clinical decision-making, we need to overcome some significant technical challenges.
But it is definitively coming read the interesting story.
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Memory performance decreases with increasing age. Cannabis can reverse these ageing processes in the brain. This was shown in mice by scientists at the University of Bonn with their colleagues at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel). Old animals were able to regress to the state of two-month-old mice with a prolonged low-dose treatment with a cannabis active ingredient. This opens up new options, for instance, when it comes to treating dementia. The results are now presented in the journal Nature Medicine.
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See the innovative approach Carlijn Valk, a Dutch Industrial Designer working on her Ph.D. has used to bring nature closer to elderly patients with dementia and how it has helped them feel positive and think back about their past experiences.
The work was featured in the Dutch Design Week 2015 and has been presented during the 3rd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health in Porto, Portugal and published in the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health – Volume 1: ICT4AWE,
A wonderful installation, built and tested in three homes in the Netherlands.
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A new Iowa State University study may have identified the link that explains years of conflicting research over a mitochondrial gene and the risk for Alzheimer’s disease.
Researchers found that if you don’t have a family history of Alzheimer’s disease, then having a longer version of the gene is a good thing. It is related to better memory up to 10 years later and about one-fifth of the risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease, however, if your mom or dad has Alzheimer’s, then having a long version is bad. It’s a complete polar opposite.
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This could increase the pace of finding a cure. Researchers are looking at how HIV got brought mostly under control:
The Alzheimer’s Association has partnered with the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) to challenge the research community to propose promising drug combinations to find more-effective treatments.
The joint effort, known as the Alzheimer’s Combination Therapy Opportunities (ACTO) grant initiative, will provide $2 million this year for testing approaches that simultaneously target two or more processes believed to underlie, exacerbate, or occur in the disease.
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