Newsweek

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A drug originally designed to treat diabetes has reversed Alzheimer's disease symptoms in lab mice.

Futurity

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A blood test can detect a protein that could help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease before symptoms appear, researchers report. Two decades or more before symptoms arise, plaques of a sticky protein called amyloid begin forming in the brains of people lat

NPR

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During each episode of their intimate podcast, Will and Bella Doolittle chronicle aspects of her illness and the inner workings of their two-decade-long marriage.

Futurity

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Reducing “stress granules,” gritty blobs of RNA that form when things like heat, viruses, or toxins stress a cell, may be a new way to fight Alzheimer’s disease. A slice of brain riddled with Alzheimer’s disease holds two unmistakable hallmarks: ball

NPR

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Black and Hispanic people often don't volunteer for studies of Alzheimer's disease, despite their risks for developing it. Researchers are working to make studies more inclusive, but it's not easy.

The Saturday Evening Post

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Dramatic advances in technology are expanding our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). “The brain is incredibly complex, but the tools that have been and are being developed are extremely powerful, and we are making progress,” says Dr. Martin F

New Zealand Listener

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Scientists at the University of California, Irvine, have developed a vaccine that removed dementia plaque in rodent brains, and believe an Alzheimer’s vaccine could be tested in human trials in two years. Clumping of the proteins amyloid beta and tau

NPR

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Researchers launched a major study of an experimental Alzheimer's drug this summer. They also learned a lot about how to protect participants who must make frequent visits to a medical center.

NPR

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Research scientists say they want to define Alzheimer's by the biological changes it causes in the brain, rather than by symptoms like memory loss.

NPR

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Now that so many experimental drugs targeting amyloid-beta have bombed, scientists are looking for different approaches for treating Alzheimer's, including a drug that failed as a cancer treatment.

What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ

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Neuroscientists are agreed that Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is strongly genetic. In other words, if your genetic card is marked, there’s little you can do about it. But a new study has discovered that a good and healthy diet can put our genes in their p

Cooking with Paula Deen

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The Bag Lady Foundation made a donation last October to the Alzheimer’s Outreach Center in Albany, Georgia, to help support the organization’s mission to care for people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia. The day care center has

Apple Magazine

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Even in your 70s and beyond, simple activities including web-surfing, playing bridge and socializing can stave off mental decline, new research says. Benefits were greatest in computer users and in those without a gene variation linked with Alzheimer

Business Today

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Dementia is a constellation of symptoms, affecting cognitive and intellectual abilities and impacting memory, reasoning and communication abilities. However, Alzheimer's disease, the most common indicator of dementia, is often considered a problem of

New Zealand Listener

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I’ve written previously that our personality can predict our chances of shuffling off this mortal coil, but only to the extent that if you are, for example, unconscientious, it means that your chances of dying on any given day are higher. I want to k

Futurity

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Disrupting just one night of sleep in healthy, middle-aged adults causes an increase in amyloid beta, a brain protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease, a small study suggests. And a week of tossing and turning leads to an increase in another brain

Futurity

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Testing how well people remember past events in their lives could help doctors make early predictions about who is at risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study. Researchers administered an “autobiographical memory” test to a g

STAT

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How did nearly two decades of failure not convince the brightest minds in science that it was time to move beyond the leading theory about #Alzheimers?

Futurity

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A blood test to detect early brain changes in Alzheimer’s disease has moved one step closer to clinical use, researchers report. Up to two decades before people develop the characteristic memory loss and confusion of Alzheimer’s disease, damaging clu

Chat Passion

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Shelley Sheppard, 45, Nottinghamshire Twirling in front of the mirror, I was grinning from ear to ear. ‘You look fantastic, Mum,’ my daughter Chloe, 24, said proudly, commenting on my recent weight loss. ‘How much have you lost? You look like a new

Futurity

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Low levels of a brain protein may combine with another long-suspected culprit to trigger the learning and memory losses in Alzheimer’s disease, a study shows. The discovery should open up important new research areas, scientists say—and may one day l

Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

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A family of Fizzy lovers are undertaking a remarkable journey this spring in memory of a much-loved family member. Peter Shand, 54, his son Darrel, 30, and daughter-in-law Sam, 29, are setting off on May 24 to fulfil a long-held ambition: to ride the

STAT

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As an #Alzheimers caregiver and professor on the disease, I know there is reason to be concerned about whether BOLD Act funding makes it into every community that needs it.

STAT

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There's a huge gap in knowledge about women's health and the role that differences between women and men play in health and disease.

Chat

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Mindfulness app Synctuition is offering free use to everyone in an attempt to support the increase in mental-health difficulties as a result of the pandemic. Clear your mind from anxiety and negativity (IOS and Android). Fancy a refreshing summer tea

The Australian Women's Weekly

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70% According to a CSIRO study, that’s the latest percentage of Australians who are overweight, due to changing COVID-19 dietary habits. But we’ve been cooking at home and consuming less fast food since the pandemic, right? Well, yes, but this has be

STAT

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Real-time analyses of individuals' financial transactions could serve as an early warning of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.

You South Africa

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Q My family think I’m addicted to gambling and want me to see a psychologist. My husband and I are in our sixties and he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease three years ago. Although he still visits friends and plays golf, he’s driving me crazy at

Futurity

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Researchers have created a simple blood test that can detect Alzheimer’s disease. The blood test accurately measures one of the proteins—P-tau181—implicated in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), according to a new study. Blood P-tau181 indirectly measures tau

Cosmopolitan South Africa

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the day I got my genetic test results, I ignored them. I came home from work and put on a big T-shirt and fuzzy pyjama pants. My long-time boyfriend (now fiancé) cooked dinner. I didn’t even mention that the e-mail from genetics and research company