Alzheimer's Disease:
Alzheimer's Disease Symptoms, Articles on Alzheimers Disease and Treatment, Alzheimer's care and information.
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Jul 14th, 2009
What if you could test your risk for Alzheimer's disease much like your cholesterol levels — through a simple blood test?
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Jul 14th, 2009
Elderly people with no memory or thinking problems are more likely to later develop thinking problems if they have a growing amount of “brain rust,” or small areas of brain damage.
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Jul 11th, 2009
People who have superior language skills early in life may be less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease decades later, despite having the hallmark signs of the disease.
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Jul 10th, 2009
Most of the cognitive tests that have been used to decide whether someone has Alzheimer's disease or vascular dementia have not been very helpful when used alone. When older people are confused and forgetful, doctors should base their diagnoses on many different types of information, including medical history and brain imaging.
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Jul 7th, 2009
Roughly 50 percent of people who reach 85 will become demented. By age 100, the number spikes to 60 percent. Of those who develop dementia, roughly 60 percent will prove to have Alzheimer’s disease.
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Jul 6th, 2009
There is new research from the US and Japan which shows some benefit of caffeine reversing symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in aged mice. Keep in mind this linking of caffeine and Alzheimer's disease is early research done in mice not humans.
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Jun 26th, 2009
People in very early stages of Alzheimer’s disease already have trouble focusing on what is important to remember.
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Jun 23rd, 2009
New research shows that taking statins (cholesterol lowering drugs), can reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in addition to promoting heart health. Cholesterol lowering drugs have a protective effect on nerve cells that become damaged in the presence of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Jun 17th, 2009
Alzheimer's disease is the leading cause of late-life dementia. An increasing body of evidence has linked assemblies of a common peptide, the amyloid protein, to the disease.
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Jun 17th, 2009
Researchers have developed a highly detailed x-ray machine that can detect Alzheimer’s disease early. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory developed the x-ray technique in hopes of helping scientists track dense areas of protein that form in the brain of Alzheimer’s disease patients, called amyloid beta (Aß) plaques.
