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See the stats from the 2016 Alzheimer’s report, you’ll be amazed.
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Activating a protein may treat dementia
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Associative memory is necessary to relate and remember situations, places and people at long term. This new study shows that a protein called CRTC1, which regulates genes essential for neuron function, needs to be activated in the hippocampus so that associative memory can be processed and stored.
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Awareness and fundraising for Alzheimer’s
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Stay on that computer!
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The Mayo clinic has done some interesting research, here is what they found:
Researchers have found that engaging in mentally stimulating activities, even late in life, may protect against new-onset mild cognitive impairment, which is the intermediate stage between normal cognitive aging and dementia. The study found that cognitively normal people 70 or older who engaged in computer use, craft activities, social activities and playing games had a decreased risk of developing mild cognitive impairment.
Horrible care giver caught!
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It was big in the news, a horrible abusive caregiver who mistreated an Alzheimer patient. The family suspected something and installed a camera and the social media made sure the caregiver had nowhere to go and hide and she got caught in a few days and is now behind bars.
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SAK3 may offer hope to Alzheimer’s disease patients
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It is the name of a new drug, developed by the Japanese research group led by Tohoku University Professor Kohji Fukunaga. SAK3, stimulates the release of acetylcholine in the brain and improves cognition by activating the memory molecule CaMKII. According to Professor Fukunaga, SAK3 also reduces the production of amyloid beta protein in the study’s model mice.
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