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: Treatment
Overly optimistic about a cure for Alzheimer’s?
Alzheimer; News from the web:
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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New UK trial for Alzheimer’s remedy
Alzheimer; News from the web:
The NIHR University College London Hospitals (UCLH) Clinical Research Facility in the UK has initiated a clinical trial, DESPIAD, to assess a new treatment called miridesap for Alzheimer’s disease.
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Singing is so good for Alzheimer’s patients
Alzheimer; News from the web:
Check out the the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute’s Amazing Grace Chorus.
And in Houston Texas we also have a small but great initiative choir see them in the link for today.
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Senolytic Therapies for Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer; News from the web:
Scientists at the University of Texas have implicated a type of cellular stress for the first time as a player in Alzheimer’s disease. And their discovery could lead to treatments for more than 20 human brain diseases including Alzheimer’s and traumatic brain injury.
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This is how exercise works for (against) Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer; News from the web:
A study by a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team finds that neurogenesis -inducing the production of new neurons — in the brain structure in which memories are encoded can improve cognitive function in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. Their investigation shows that those beneficial effects on cognition can be blocked by the hostile inflammatory environment present in the brain of patients with Alzheimer’s disease and that physical exercise can “clean up” the environment, allowing new nerve cells to survive and thrive and improving cognition in the Alzheimer’s mice.
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