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The President of Costa Rica, Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera, has become an Honorary Ambassador of Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI). The Vice President of the Republic of Costa Rica, Ms. Ana Helena Chacón Echeverría, recieved the award on behalf of the President, at a special meeting with Paola Barbarino, CEO of ADI and Juan Parra, Executive Director of
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Menopause triggers numerous changes in a woman’s body — and, apparently, metabolic changes in the brain as well that puts middle-age women at greater risk of Alzheimer’s disease, a study reports.
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While memory loss is an early symptom of Alzheimer’s disease, its presence doesn’t mean a person will develop dementia. A new study has found a clinically useful way to predict who won’t develop Alzheimer’s disease, based on patients’ awareness of their memory problems.
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As a first step, a team is testing whether it’s possible to stop or slow tau-driven neuron loss and inflammation by lowering ApoE in the early life of laboratory rodents. This scheme mimics a human scenario better than the recent study, which analyzed mice that express or lack APOE from birth. “The implication here, with the recent tau findings, is that you’d really block the neurodegeneration that leads to cognitive decline,” Holtzman says.
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Here is an update with the best interventions and treatments for Alzheimer’s.
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Axovant’s trial results are the last major results to come out in 2017, with the next ones reading out in 2018 and a major wave of results expected in 2019.
Source: What Alzheimer’s disease drugs are in development next trial – Business Insider