News tagged with alzheimer disease
Chemical engineers help decipher mystery of neurofibrillary tangle formation in Alzheimer's brains
Neurofibrillary tangles – odd, twisted clumps of protein found within nerve cells – are a pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. The tangles, which were first identified in the early 1900s by German psychiatrist ...
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Nov 02, 2011 |
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New findings contradict dominant theory in Alzheimer's disease
For decades the amyloid hypothesis has dominated the research field in Alzheimer's disease. The theory describes how an increase in secreted beta-amyloid peptides leads to the formation of plaques, toxic clusters of damaged ...
Neuroscience
Oct 28, 2011 |
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Could hypertension drugs help people with Alzheimer's?
Within the next 20 years it is expected the number of people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) will double from its current figure of half a million to one million. A new study has looked at whether certain types of drugs used ...
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Oct 17, 2011 |
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Antiviral drugs may slow Alzheimer's progression
Antiviral drugs used to target the herpes virus could be effective at slowing the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD), a new study shows.
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Oct 17, 2011 |
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Researchers find first physical evidence bilingualism delays onset of Alzheimer's symptoms
Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital have found that people who speak more than one language have twice as much brain damage as unilingual people before they exhibit symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. It's the first physical ...
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Oct 13, 2011 |
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A safer vaccination for Alzheimer's disease?
The research shows that in addition to the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules, which present the antigen vaccine to the immune cells, genetic factors, that control some immune cells, influence the quality of ...
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Oct 11, 2011 |
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Study identifies earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease
Addressing the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease, before a patient shows outward signs of cognitive problems, has sometimes been a challenge for physicians and researchers, in part because they have not been using common ...
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Oct 11, 2011 |
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Small study shows association between medication and reduction in brain amyloid levels related to AD
Although it is a small study and more clinical trials are needed, treatment with the medication gantenerumab appeared to result in a reduction in brain amyloid levels in patients with Alzheimer disease, according to a report ...
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Oct 10, 2011 |
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Blood tests may hold clues to pace of Alzheimer's disease progression
(Medical Xpress) -- A team of scientists, led by Johns Hopkins researchers, say they may have found a way to predict how quickly patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) will lose cognitive function by looking at ratios ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Alzheimer's might be transmissible in similar way as infectious prion diseases: study
The brain damage that characterizes Alzheimer's disease may originate in a form similar to that of infectious prion diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob, according to newly published ...
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Marker for Alzheimer's disease rises during day and falls with sleep
A marker for Alzheimer's disease rises and falls in the spinal fluid in a daily pattern that echoes the sleep cycle, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found.
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Sep 26, 2011 |
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A micro-RNA as a key regulator of learning and Alzheimer's disease
Proteins are the molecular machines of the cell. They transport materials, cleave products or transmit signals – and for a long time, they have been a main focus of attention in molecular biology research. In the last ...
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Sep 23, 2011 |
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Alzheimer's disease: The first prevention study of its kind
Researchers at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, in Montreal, Quebec, are about to launch the first epidemiological study on the prevention of Alzheimer's disease.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Alzheimer's protein detected in brain fluid of healthy mice
(Medical Xpress) -- One of the most promising markers of Alzheimer’s disease, previously thought only to be inside nerve cells, now appears to be normally released from nerve cells throughout life, according ...
Neuroscience
Sep 21, 2011 |
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New research increases understanding of drug effects in treatment of Alzheimer's Disease
Just like one size doesn’t fit all, it appears that some pharmaceuticals designed to improve mental ability may do the opposite when given to people with normal mental function. Scientists from Trinity ...
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Sep 19, 2011 |
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