Archive for the ‘Alzheimers / Dementia’ Category
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
According to an article published in the April edition of The Lancet Neurology, donepezil may improve the executive function of patients who suffer from the CADASIL form of vascular dementia. However, researcher Martin Dichgans of Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany and colleagues found that donepezil did not improve patients' cognitive ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
A new study by researchers in the US found that people with advanced dementia are frequently given antibiotics toward the end of life, and has thrown into question whether this practice should be curtailed in view of the increased risk of developing drug resistant superbugs.
The study is the work of ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
A new US study suggests that brain health is improving among older Americans as demonstrated by a decline in thinking and memory problems in this group. The researchers said improved cardiovascular care, better education, and being financially better off could be the main reasons.
The research paper is published in the ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Actress Julie Christie will return to cinemas with her performance of a woman living with Alzheimer's disease.
Away From Her is being re-released ahead of the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, where Christie is nominated for Best Actress.
Christie stars as Fiona who insists on going into care as her memory starts ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Actress Julie Christie will return to cinemas with her performance of a woman living with Alzheimer's disease.
Away From Her is being re-released ahead of the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, where Christie is nominated for Best Actress.
Christie stars as Fiona who insists on going into care as her memory starts ...
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
research from UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) shows that patients with mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) have a dramatic decline in their ability to make financial decisions over a one year period. The findings, published Feb. 8 online in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, have strong implications for caregivers ...
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
A variant of the gene CDC2 could possibly be used as a risk marker for Alzheimer's disease. The gene variant is considerably more common among Alzheimer's patients. This is shown in a dissertation from the Sahlgrenska Academy at Goteborg University in Sweden.
Alzheimer's disease has several different causes. Since many patients ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Alzheimer's disease (AD) may progress more rapidly in people with high blood pressure or a form of irregular heartbeat, atrial fibrillation, according to results of a Johns Hopkins study published in the Nov. 6, 2007, issue of Neurology. The findings suggest that treating these conditions may also slow memory loss ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Until recently, only one of the approximately 30,000 genes in the human genome has been linked to risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD). Now, a new NIH-supported study in the Nov. 19, 2007, issue of NeuroReport (now online) used a publicly shared genome dataset to strongly support findings that variation ...
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