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Here is a new drug that seemed effective for mice and now has been found safe for humans, so the next step it to test it on patients with Alzheimer’s. Exciting times
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Category Archives: Treatment
Light on Alzheimer’s
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In 2016, to the surprise of Alzheimer’s disease researchers across the world, a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that setting mice in front of a blinking light could clear out the characteristic protein plaques thought to be one of the roots of the disease. A recent follow up study found that sounds played at a particular frequency clearned plaques and improved cognition, as well.
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We can’t control aging, genetics. That leaves lifestyle
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Let’s start with a hard truth: While certain FDA-approved drugs can treat the symptoms, no cures or treatments have been shown to stop, slow or reverse the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. The FDA is clamping down on the makers of dozens of products, often labelled as dietary supplements, that claim otherwise. What those companies are selling, says the administration, is false hope.
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‘Alzheimer’s Stories’ choral work offers hope through music
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Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive, incurable brain disorder that slowly robs the sufferer of memory and cognitive functions, eventually claiming the ability to carry out even simple tasks.
Yet, it’s been noted that music can sometimes evoke responses from Alzheimer’s patients when nothing else can.
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New clinical trial starting
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NeuroTherapia Inc. will start clinical trials of a new drug targeting inflammation of the brain that’s found in Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases, according to a news release.
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New approach to Alzheimer’s prevention
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Just as genetic makeup plays a role in the risk for Alzheimer’s, new drugs designed to alter your genes could bring us closer to a cure.
The concept is called epigenetics, and one of the more promising drugs in this new avenue of Alzheimer’s research is now being studied in New Jersey.
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