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A study found that consistently worrying about our memory—think rushing to WebMD every day to determine whether or not occasionally forgetting the route to a friend’s house means we’re destined to develop Alzheimer’s—is a sign that we may have a lower risk of receiving an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. The study found that forgetting your own forgetfulness is more concerning and could be an early sign of dementia.
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Researchers have found that nilvadipine, a drug that doctors regularly use to treat hypertension, may help people with Alzheimer’s disease by increasing blood flow to the brain.
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A cure for Alzheimer’s Disease does not exist just yet, but researchers at the University of New Mexico (UNM) are one step closer to finding one.
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“I think it’s almost universal that we forgot where we put the keys, we forgot someone’s name. That just happens all the time. If you have a precedence for those things, that’s not Alzheimer’s,” Dr. Jon Hallberg told MPR News host Tom Crann. “But if you take those things, plus you don’t remember what you said two minutes ago and someone says, ‘You just told me that,’ you’re driving and you don’t know where you are, you forget what things are used for, then some form of dementia might be happening.”
Hallberg, medical director of the University of Minnesota Physicians Mill City Clinic, said that’s when you should see a doctor.
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Treatment with blood pressure medication can improve blood flow to a key brain region in people with Alzheimer’s disease, a small clinical trial has found.
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As of now, a cure for Alzheimer’s Disease does not exist, but researchers at the University of New Mexico believe they have found a way to prevent it. “I really wanted to take this as a challenge to see if we could develop any sort of treatment,” says Kiran Bhaskar.
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