New Treatment Has Potential to Stop Alzheimer’s Disease
Molecular ‘tweezers’ break up toxic aggregations of proteins in mouse model Last March, researchers at UCLA reported the development of a molecular compound called CLR01 that prevented toxic proteins...
View ArticleAlzheimer’s Researcher Reveals a Protein’s Dual Destructiveness
A scientist at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health has identified the molecule that controls a scissor-like protein responsible for the production of plaques – the telltale...
View ArticleResearchers Examine Inflammation as a Therapeutic Approach for Alzheimer’s...
Researchers discover a signal switch which protects against loss of function of nerve cells The number of Alzheimer’s patients will continue to dramatically increase in the next several decades....
View ArticleCutting off Immune Response to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease
The Bonn site of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and the University of Bonn are leading contributors. The complex named “NLRP3 inflammasome” is composed of several proteins and...
View ArticleResearchers Take Major Step Toward an Alzheimer’s Vaccine
Quebec City, January 15, 2013—A team of researchers from Université Laval, CHU de Québec, and pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has discovered a way to stimulate the brain’s natural defense...
View ArticleScientists Find Connection Between Type II Diabetes and Alzheimer’s
Philadelphia, Pa. – A research team in Israel has devised a novel approach to identifying the molecular basis for designing a drug that might one day decrease the risk diabetes patients face of...
View ArticleHelping Dementia Patients Remember to Eat Well Improves Physical and Mental...
A new analysis has found that a combination of methods that help patients with dementia remember proper eating habits can improve their physical health and lessen symptoms of depression. Published...
View ArticleUncontrolled Hypertension Associated With Increased Risk for Alzheimer’s
A study in the JAMA Neurology (formerly the Archives of Neurology) suggests that controlling or preventing risk factors such as hypertension earlier in life may limit or delay the brain changes...
View ArticleDepression in Alzheimer’s Patients Associated with Declining Ability to...
New York, NY (March 18, 2013)—More symptoms of depression and lower cognitive status are independently associated with a more rapid decline in the ability to handle tasks of everyday living, according...
View ArticleStudy Finds Dementia Care Costs Among Highest of All Diseases
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The costs of caring for people with dementia in the U.S. are comparable to – if not greater than – those for heart disease and cancer, according to new estimates by researchers at...
View ArticleNew findings on the brain’s immune cells during Alzheimer’s disease progression
The plaque deposits in the brain of Alzheimer’s patients are surrounded by the brain’s own immune cells, the microglia. This was already recognized by Alois Alzheimer more than one hundred years ago....
View ArticleNew Hypothesis on How Alzheimer’s Could Occur
Protein spheres in the nucleus give wrong signA new hypothesis has been developed by researchers in Bochum on how Alzheimer’s disease could occur. They analysed the interaction of the proteins FE65...
View ArticleResearchers Examine Inflammation as a Therapeutic Approach for Alzheimer’s...
Researchers discover a signal switch which protects against loss of function of nerve cells The number of Alzheimer’s patients will continue to dramatically increase in the next several decades....
View ArticleCutting off Immune Response to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease
The Bonn site of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and the University of Bonn are leading contributors. The complex named “NLRP3 inflammasome” is composed of several proteins and...
View ArticleResearchers Take Major Step Toward an Alzheimer’s Vaccine
Quebec City, January 15, 2013—A team of researchers from Université Laval, CHU de Québec, and pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has discovered a way to stimulate the brain’s natural defense...
View ArticleScientists Find Connection Between Type II Diabetes and Alzheimer’s
Philadelphia, Pa. – A research team in Israel has devised a novel approach to identifying the molecular basis for designing a drug that might one day decrease the risk diabetes patients face of...
View ArticleHelping Dementia Patients Remember to Eat Well Improves Physical and Mental...
A new analysis has found that a combination of methods that help patients with dementia remember proper eating habits can improve their physical health and lessen symptoms of depression. Published...
View ArticleUncontrolled Hypertension Associated With Increased Risk for Alzheimer’s
A study in the JAMA Neurology (formerly the Archives of Neurology) suggests that controlling or preventing risk factors such as hypertension earlier in life may limit or delay the brain changes...
View ArticleDepression in Alzheimer’s Patients Associated with Declining Ability to...
New York, NY (March 18, 2013)—More symptoms of depression and lower cognitive status are independently associated with a more rapid decline in the ability to handle tasks of everyday living, according...
View ArticleAdvance Directives Reduce End of Life Medical Costs
A new article available online in the American Journal of Public Health by two Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health faculty makes a compelling case that end-of-life care issues need to...
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