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A 75-year-old man fatally shot himself while deputies were visiting his house to conduct a welfare check on his wife, and he left behind a hand-written suicide note saying he had buried her in the backyard, authorities in Florida said Wednesday.
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IN short: New findings indicate that the induction of metaplasticity by ryanodine receptor activation contributes to the reestablishment of plasticity and associativity in hippocampal neurons of APP/PS1 mice and might be a potential therapeutic target.
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heart warming story about a son and mother singing a duet. You can see how the music brings her partially back from her dementia.
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What a wonderful idea, a cruise for people with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers. Read the details in the link for today.
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Researchers at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston are studying Alzheimer’s disease to determine what can be done to diagnose it earlier.
A recent UTMB study sheds light on how Alzheimer’s disease begins within the brain. Researchers found a relationship between inflammation, a toxic protein, and the onset of the disease.
They also identified a way that doctors can detect early signs of Alzheimer’s by looking at the backs of patients’ eyes. UTMB researchers have previously found evidence that tau oligomers, which are abundant in the central nervous system, may be present in the early stages of Alzheimer’s.
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Ontario’s stroke prevention strategy appears to have had an unexpected, beneficial side effect: a reduction also in the incidence of dementia among older seniors. A new paper is the first to look at the demographics of both stroke and dementia across Ontario since the province pioneered Canada’s first stroke prevention strategy in 2000.
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