Does Diabetes Speed Up Memory Loss In Alzheimers Disease?
ScienceDaily, 10/28/2009
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risk of Alzheimer's disease and the risk of memory loss in people who don't have Alzheimer's disease. But it hasn't been clear whether people with Alzheimer's disease and diabetes have more rapid memory loss than those who have Alzheimer's disease but no diabetes.
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Alzheimer's lesions found in the retina
EurekAlert, 10/22/2009
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The eyes may be the windows to the soul, but new research indicates they also may mirror a brain ravaged by Alzheimer's disease. UC Irvine neuroscientists have found that retinas in mice genetically altered to have Alzheimer's undergo changes similar to ... those that occur in the brain – most notably the accumulation of amyloid plaque lesions.
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Music Prompts Memory in Alzheimer's Patients
Internet Source, 11/18/2009
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Therapists and doctors who treat Alzheimer's are now using music not only to soothe and entertain their patients but to restore some cognitive function. For decades it's been recognized that Alzheimer's patients can still remember and sing songs long ... recognizing names and faces. Now it's thought that those tunes can provide a pathway back to memories otherwise lost. One claims intensive music therapy can lead to an increase of 50% on cognitive–function tests.
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High Blood Pressure Likely in Alzheimers Offspring
MedLinePlus, 11/04/2009
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Middle–aged adults whose parents have Alzheimer's disease are at increased risk for high blood pressure, evidence of arterial disease and markers of inflammation all of which may be associated with later development of Alzheimer's disease. That's the finding of a study by researchers in the ... families with a parental history of Alzheimer's and 200 adults in 97 families with no parental history of the disease.
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Inflammation, Genes, and Hypertension All Contribute to Alzheimer's Risk
U.S. News & World Report, 11/03/2009
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You might think of Alzheimer's disease as a genetic condition that you can do nothing to avoid. But that may not be the case. New research suggests that Alzheimer's is partly driven by inflammation, a process that we do have ... parents developed dementia late in life, Danish researchers found that, compared with those whose parents didn't have Alzheimers, the volunteers were more likely to have high blood pressure and high levels of inflammatory proteins called cytokines.
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Vision Troubles may Signal Alzheimers
Ivanhoe, 10/28/2009
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For patients who visit the doctor with vision complaints, Alzheimer’s may be to blame. Researchers have found clues to help ophthalmologists detect visual variant Alzheimer's disease, a rare cause of impaired sight.
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Bayer Schering Pharma collaborates with AC Immune in the field of Alzheimer's disease
BayNews International, 10/15/2009
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Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany, will provide its development candidate florbetaben, a so called PET (positron emission tomography) tracer, to the Swiss–based biopharmaceutical company AC Immune SA, to support a clinical trial in the field of Alzheimer´s disease (AD ... is conducted to develop a therapy option for the treatment of AD. Bayer´s novel PET tracer florbetaben will be applied for imaging of beta–Amyloid deposition in the brain of patients undergoing the phase I clinical testing of AC Immune´s Alzheimer´s vaccine ACI–24.
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Protective Role For Copper In Alzheimers Disease
ScienceDaily, 10/14/2009
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amyloid beta plaques which are found in the brains of people of Alzheimer's disease. A central tenet of the Amyloid Cascade Hypothesis of Alzheimer’s disease is the aberrant deposition in the brain of A beta 42 in beta–sheets in neuritic or senile plaques.
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New neuroimaging analysis technique identifies impact of Alzheimer's disease gene in healthy brains
EurekAlert, 11/18/2009
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Brain imaging can offer a window into risk for diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). A study conducted at the University of Kansas School of Medicine demonstrated that genetic risk is expressed ... some risk for AD.
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Analyzing structural brain changes in Alzheimer's disease
EurekAlert, 11/17/2009
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In a study that promises to improve diagnosis and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease, scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a fast and accurate method for quantifying subtle, sub–regional brain volume ... MRI).
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