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For the first time, researchers have described hour-by-hour changes in the amount of amyloid beta, a protein that is believed to play a key role in Alzheimer's disease, in the human brain. A collaborative team of scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of ...
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A new study shows that older people's mental skills start declining years before death, even if they don't have dementia. The study is published in the August 27, 2008, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. "These changes are different and separate from the ...
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A new study shows that older people's mental skills start declining years before death, even if they don't have dementia. The study is published in the August 27, 2008, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. "These changes are different and separate from the ...
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Alzheimer's Society comment on the announcement by Carol Thatcher that Baroness Thatcher has dementia. The sad news that Baroness Thatcher has dementia has highlighted a condition that is desperately under recognised and underfunded in the UK. One in three people over 65 will die with a form of dementia. Dementia ...
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The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF), a public charity founded by the Estee Lauder family in 2004, is pleased to announce an exciting partnership with extreme athlete, former Marine, and elite personal trainer Mike Monroe. Mike will be raising money for the ADDF in the 25th anniversary Furnace Creek 508 ...
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Alzheimer Scotland welcomes the attention drawn to 'inconsistencies' in palliative care for different conditions in the recent Review of palliative care services in Scotland report from Audit Scotland. This report has prompted a pledge from the Scottish Government for a national plan to improve palliative care provision....
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A hallmark of this year's ICAD meeting was the wealth of new clinical trials information in Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Years of basic and preclinical research have paved the road for development of new medications and biologics. Results from many new clinical trials were provided, ranging from promising Phase I and ...
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New research led by Chu Chen, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, provides evidence that one of the only naturally occurring fatty acids in the brain that has the ability to interact with the receptors originally identified as the targets of THC (the psychoactive ...
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New research suggests that a select group of compounds that interact with a protein in the brain might be used in the early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other dementia disorders. Scientists have discovered that these compounds interact in three specific ways with the tau protein, which is ...
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MIT engineers report a new approach to identifying protein structures key to Alzheimer's disease, an important step toward the development of new drugs that could prevent such structures from forming. In the Aug. 22 issue of PLoS (Public Library of Science) Computational Biology, the researchers describe one such structure uncovered ...
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A report published by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in the August 20 issue of JAMA suggests that measuring how much an individual's performance varies across several neuropsychological tests enhances the accuracy of predicting whether older adults will develop dementia. Developing strategies to improve the ...
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Two neuroscientists at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center are turning magic tricks into science. Stephen Macknik, Ph.D., director of the Laboratory of Behavioral Neurophysiology; and Susana Martinez-Conde, Ph.D., director of the Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience; are working with world-famous magicians to discover the brain's mechanisms ...
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According to an article published in the August 20 issue of JAMA, there is likely an association between within-person variability on neuropsychological testing and the development of dementia in older adults. Roee Holtzer, Ph.D. (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, New York) and colleagues write that, "Developing strategies to ...
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Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) has been associated with diabetes mellitus (DM) with earlier onset, longer duration, and greater severity, according to an article released on August 11, 2008 in the Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. As the transitional stage between the effects of aging and dementia itself, ...
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Cocoa flavanols, the unique compounds found naturally in cocoa, may increase blood flow to the brain, according to new research published in the Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment journal. The researchers suggest that long-term improvements in brain blood flow could impact cognitive behavior, offering future potential for debilitating brain conditions including ...
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During the programme Terry Pratchett criticises the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's (NICE) decision to limit Alzheimer's drugs. Terry Pratchett is right. It's an absolute disgrace that people with early-stage Alzheimer's continue to be denied access to the only drugs proven to treat the disease. Time and quality ...
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According to the HSJ, Care Quality Commission chair Baroness Young has pledged to crack down on NHS organisations that fail to adopt National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance. Ignoring guidelines could result in marked-down annual assessment ratings and lower pay, she told the journal in her first interview ...
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Power3 Medical Products, Inc. (OTCBB:PWRM), a leading proteomics company specializing in the development and commercialization of diagnostic tests for early detection of breast cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, is providing an interim status report of its international validation study of the company's NuroPro® blood serum biomarker test for Alzheimer's disease....
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A virus that commonly infects potatoes bears a striking resemblance to one of the key proteins implicated in Alzheimer's disease (AD), and researchers have used that to develop antibodies that may slow or prevent the onset of AD....
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A study in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that the sleep patterns of older adults who live with and provide direct care during the night for a person with dementia are significantly worse than other older adults. When sleep was measured objectively, and after adjusting for depressive symptoms, ...
