Antibody-based treatment may cure dementia – Latin Post


Latin Post

Antibody-based treatment may cure dementia
Latin Post
Currently, there are fewer than 30 million people worldwide diagnosed with dementia or Alzheimer's, but it seems that the figure gets higher each year. Experts predict that by 2050, dementia could affect more than 130 million people and that will ...

Dementia Walk helps caregivers relate to loved ones – AZFamily


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Dementia Walk helps caregivers relate to loved ones
AZFamily
Life with Alzheimer's can sometimes feel isolating when others can't relate to your everyday challenges. Now, local caregivers are getting new insight on their loved ones' struggles. No one knows Pat Carmichael better than her husband of 55 years, Ron.

Power outage in the brain may be source of Alzheimer’s – Science Daily


Science Daily

Power outage in the brain may be source of Alzheimer's
Science Daily
In new research appearing in the journal Alzheimer's and Dementia, Diego Mastroeni, Paul Coleman and their colleagues at the ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center (NDRC) and the Biodesign Center for Bioenergetics investigate the ...

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HRT could cut your dementia risk as it could be triggered by falling oestrogen levels – Daily Mail


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HRT could cut your dementia risk as it could be triggered by falling oestrogen levels
Daily Mail
Women should consider taking hormone replacement therapy to cut their risk of developing Alzheimer's, experts claim. It was thought that women were twice as likely as men to get the disease because they live longer. But US researchers found that the ...
Study elucidates why women have higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease than menNews-Medical.net
Who has better memory, men or women?Valley News Live

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Neuroscience: Tide of forgetting – Nature.com


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Neuroscience: Tide of forgetting
Nature.com
It extends to dementia due to multiple sclerosis, stroke and encephalitis. For instance, some 5–30% of people who have a first stroke develop dementia. But the book's focus is Alzheimer's disease, and rightly so: it is what up to 80% of people with ...

MRI Shows High Accuracy in ID’ing Lewy Body Dementia, Alzheimer’s – Monthly Prescribing Reference (registration)


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MRI Shows High Accuracy in ID'ing Lewy Body Dementia, Alzheimer's
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HealthDay News — Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain may aid diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies versus Alzheimer's disease, according to a study published online November 2 in Neurology. Starting in 2005, Kejal Kantarci, MD, ...
Brain Scans May Improve Dementia Diagnosis, TreatmentBismarck Tribune

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How to spot the signs of dementia early and Alzheimer’s disease – Mirror.co.uk


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How to spot the signs of dementia early and Alzheimer's disease
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Alzheimer's disease is the most commonly recognised cause of dementia. However, dementia is not one condition but a term which encompasses a range of conditions characterised by impairment of brain functions, including language, memory, perception, ...
SENIOR Q&A: Dementia, Alzheimer's diseaseWicked Local Upton
Solterra welcomes dementia, alzheimer's speakersWhite Mountain Independent
7 Things you should know if you are caring for someone with dementia/Alzheimer's diseaseCloser
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Complex referral criteria may delay dementia diagnosis – Alzheimer’s Society


Complex referral criteria may delay dementia diagnosis
Alzheimer's Society
'Anticipated new treatments for Alzheimer's are starting to show promise in clinical trials but if these are successful and become available it is likely they would need to be be given during the early stages of the disease to offer the greatest ...

Brain scans may improve dementia diagnosis, treatment – UPI.com


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Brain scans may improve dementia diagnosis, treatment
UPI.com
A new study shows that MRI brain scans can help doctors tell which people with certain thinking and memory problems might go on to develop dementia with Lewy bodies rather than Alzheimer's disease. The researchers found that scans from people who ...

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Solterra welcomes dementia, alzheimer’s speakers – White Mountain Independent


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Solterra welcomes dementia, alzheimer's speakers
White Mountain Independent
Fascinating an audience with her 20 years experience of working with people with Dementia, Frena Gray Davidson uses her British humor to tackle this tough subject. Speaking on Nov. 3 at Solterra Senior Living's Third Annual Alzheimer's Workshop, ...