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Researchers surprised by similar structures in Sanfilippo syndrome and Alzheimer's disease
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 04, 2009 |
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Researchers seeking to understand the causes of a rare genetic lysosomal storage disease, Sanfilippo syndrome type B, were surprised to find protein aggregates, known as neurofibrillary tangles, that are usually ...
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Researchers use eye tracking to detect mild dementia in humans (w/Podcast)
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, developed a test in nonhuman primates that is now using infrared eye tracking to detect mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in humans. The researchers ...
A drug could improve the memory of those with Alzheimer's disease
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 18, 2009 |
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A drug used in a type of hereditary metabolic disorder improved the memory of laboratory animals with Alzheimer's disease. The results of the project, developed by researchers of the Center for Applied Medical Research (CIMA) ...
Alzheimer's research pinpoints antibodies that may prevent disease
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Antibodies to a wide range of substances that can aggregate to form plaques, such as those found in Alzheimer's patients, have been identified in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid of healthy people. Levels of these antibodies ...
Regular moderate alcohol intake has cognitive benefits in older adults
Jul 13, 2009 |
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A glass of wine here, a nightcap there - new research out of Wake Forest University School of Medicine suggests that moderate alcohol intake offers long-term cognitive protection and reduces the risk of dementia ...
New way to diagnose Alzheimer's disease promises earlier treatment
Sep 17, 2007 |
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Physicians may be able to detect and treat Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in its earliest stages, when patients are experiencing only mild degrees of cognitive impairment, thanks to new diagnostic criteria proposed by an international ...
Rapid weight loss may herald Alzheimer's
Sep 12, 2006 |
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U.S. researchers say the slow, steady weight loss associated with aging may speed up prior to the onset of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
Research Investigates Rebuilding Identity When Communication Is Impaired
Sep 08, 2009 |
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What happens to a person’s identity when a stroke or a disease profoundly impairs the ability to communicate? In Neurogenic Communication Disorders: Life Stories and the Narrative Self, University of Arkan ...
Common epilepsy drug could prevent and treat Alzheimer's disease
Oct 27, 2008 |
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The team led by UBC Psychiatry Prof. Weihong Song, who is also the Jack Brown and Family Professor and Chair in Alzheimer's Disease at UBC, found that if Valproic Acid (VPA) is used as a treatment in early stages of AD memory ...
Pin1 is beneficial in Alzheimer's disease, detrimental to some forms of dementia
Apr 23, 2008 |
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The most common form of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and a relatively rare hereditary form of dementia, frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism-17, share a common pathology: Both are the result of an overaccumulation ...
HIV subtype linked to increased likelihood for dementia
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 28, 2009 |
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Patients infected with a particular subtype of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, are more likely to develop dementia than patients with other subtypes, a study led by Johns Hopkins researchers shows. The finding, reported ...
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