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New research suggests a link between a stress hormone and the speed of decline of your condition.
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Breakthrough in Alzheimer’s research
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Treating Alzheimer’s with gene injection??!!
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Alzheimer’s disease could be stopped in its tracks with an injection into the memory centres of the brain to boost a gene which clears out destructive sticky plaques, scientists believe.
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Insight in how brain atrophy can explain various manifestations of Alzheimer’s
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Mathematical modeling of the brain scans of patients with Alzheimer’s disease and others at risk for the devastating neurodegenerative disorder has identified specific patterns of brain atrophy that appear to be related to the loss of particular cognitive abilities. In their report that has been published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the National University of Singapore describe how different atrophy patterns may explain the different ways that Alzheimer’s disease can be manifested in individual patients.
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Second changes may help Alzheimer’s patients
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Good story about a small pharmaceutical company that took and old drug that failed a decade ago and turns it into something that may actually help some Alzheimer’s patiens.
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Alzheimer’s may not come alone!
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The failure of many Alzheimer’s disease drug trials can be traced back to patients having a second dementia-causing ailment, Kentucky University scientists say.
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