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New Approach To Screen Individuals For Early Alzheimer’s Disease

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— With millions of baby boomers entering late adulthood, the number of patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is expected to drastically rise over the next several decades.

A team of national researchers, led by Emory University, has developed a rapid screening test to detect mild cognitive impairment (MCI) — often the earliest stage of AD. The findings are published in the online edition of Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
The study shows that the combination of a very brief three-minute cognitive screening test, called the Mini-Cog (MC), with a Functional Activities Questionnaire (FAQ) — administered to a family member or friend — could accurately identify individuals with….read the whole article

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Can you recognize Alzheimer’s and related dementias?

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By KAREN GARLOCK - McClatchy Newspapers

If you’ve ever forgotten the name of a business associate or lost your keys, you might have wondered, even just fleetingly, if you have the beginnings of Alzheimer’s disease.
Everyone has heard heart-rending stories about this progressive brain disease. But as much as we think we know about Alzheimer’s disease, a recent survey of more than 1,000 seniors found a lack of knowledge of the symptoms and how to respond.
Forty-seven percent of respondents said they have a close friend or family member diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and 83 percent thought they could recognize the disease in themselves or a loved one. But 99 percent were unable to tell the difference between symptoms of early disease, late disease, and non-Alzheimer’s dementia. …read the whole article

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Forget it: Ginkgo found ineffective at helping memory, preventing dementia

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Practical recommendations on preventing aggression in dementia patients by screening for and treating predictive factors.

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Key Contributor To Alzheimer’s Disease Process Identified

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Walter J. Lukiw, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Ophthalmology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, is the lead author of a paper identifying, for the first time, a specific function of a fragment of ribonucleic acid (RNA), once thought to be no more than a byproduct, in regulating inflammation and the development of Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Lukiw’s lab at the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence has shown that this tiny piece of RNA, or microRNA, called miRNA-146a is found in increased amounts in stressed human brain cells and in Alzheimer’s disease, and that it plays a crucial role in the….read the whole article

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Engage With Grace Provides Valuable Tool for End-of-Life Discussion with Dementia

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Brain bank appealing for donors

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Press Association

One of Britain’s largest human brain banks is suffering from a shortage of organs and is appealing for more donors to help them find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease.
The South West Brain Bank has 800 brains in store which have been donated by people who had suffered with Alzheimer’s.
But doctors say they need “normal” brains to develop drugs which could lead to a cure for dementia, which affects 700,000 people in the UK, a figure that is expected to double in the next decade.
Professor Seth Love and his team, the Bristol Dementia Research Group, have been awarded £340,000 from the Alzheimer’s Research Trust.
Along with money from local charity BRACE the team will buy a new state-of-the-art microscope with which to look at healthy and diseased brain tissue.
The brain is taken within 72 hours of death, cut in half and preserved for further……..read the whole story

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Researchers Explore New Technologies, Treatments for Dementia Patients

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Dementia Alzheimer’s patients given brain implants

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Berries ‘may help Alzheimer’s’ and other dementias

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Compounds in black currants could reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, food researchers have said.
Scientists are working on a project to find a cost-effective way of developing the compounds as…..read the whole story

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