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University of California in Riverside (UCR) investigators say they may have discovered a new target for drugs in treating a neurodegenerative form of dementia called Alzheimer’s Disease. The molecule they discovered could also be targeted in the fight against other neurological disorders.
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13 February 2012
06:00 GMT |
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Researchers at the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine say that the drug bexarotene – commonly used against skin cancer – can help address early-stage Alzheimer's disease. The substance acts on neural plaques made from beta amyloid proteins.
In all patients suffering from this neurodegenerative ... |
10 February 2012
08:09 GMT |
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Mount Sinai Medical Center investigators say that brain metabolism can be improved by drinking decaffeinated coffee. The team studied the relationship between this type of metabolism and type II diabetes, and found a strong correlation between the two.
By drinking caffeine-free coffee, people can help improve the wa... |
6 February 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Anecdotal wisdom has been proposing that eating fish helps protect the body by providing it with vitamins and other healthy elements. Now, a scientific research demonstrates that people who eat more baked or broiled fish are at a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
This investigation was able to deter... |
1 December 2011
16:01 GMT |
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A team of researchers from the Mayo Clinic say that they recently developed a new approach for teasing out people who suffer from the early stages of Alzheimer's diseases. Discovering the condition in advanced can help improve patient outcomes and reduce the burden placed on healthcare systems.Scientists believe... |
12 October 2011
11:04 GMT |
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A collaboration of experts from the University of Sheffield and the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, in the United Kingdom, proposes the use of lasers for treating forms of dementia such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
The team believes that a new generation of lasers may be used to... |
27 September 2011
17:01 GMT |
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Experts with the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine (WUSM) were recently able to identify a new marker for Alzheimer's disease. The interesting thing about it is that it soars and dips inside the spinal fluid in patterns eerily similar to the body's sleep cycle.
This daily repetition o... |
27 September 2011
09:42 GMT |
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Georgia Health Sciences University graduate student Scott Webster says that targeting the amyloid protein and its pathways could lead to the development of a new type of vaccine against Alzheimer's.
The disease, a neurodegenerative form of dementia, is incurable and fatal over time. It first acts by reducing ... |
27 September 2011
02:52 GMT |
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An international collaboration of researchers has determined that much more emphasis should be placed on detecting Alzheimer's disease during its earliest stages. At that time, the experts say, certain therapies can be a lot more effective than they are at later stages.
The researchers, who are based at the ... |
14 September 2011
10:22 GMT |
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Researcher at Cambridge Cognition, a spin-off of the University of Cambridge, announced that they will make an Alzheimer's early detection method available to general practitioners (GP) very soon. The tool differentiates between dementia and normal, age-related memory loss.
As doctors know all too well, loss ... |
7 September 2011
10:43 GMT |
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Researchers at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, discovered recently that it may be possible to assess a person chances of developing Alzheimer's disease later on by analyzing data collected by a brain scan.According to neurologists in the research team, a medical imaging technique called proton MR spectroscopy is ... |
25 August 2011
08:07 GMT |
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A new blood test developed by researchers at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) could be used to detect symptoms produced by Alzheimer’s disease a lot faster than ever before. The approach can set the foundation for rapid, early diagnostics methods.Alzheimer’s is a neurodegener... |
5 August 2011
10:11 GMT |
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Investigators at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) and the San Francisco VA Medical Center say that as many as 50 percent of all cases of Alzheimer's disease could be prevented if at-risk people would change their lifestyle. Lifestyle changes and treatment and the prevention of chronic medical... |
21 July 2011
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A group of investigators demonstrated recently that it's possible to detect the development of Alzheimer's disease more than two decades before the first evidence appear in the brain. This can be done by surveying certain biomarkers in people with rare, inherited forms of the neurological disease.The effici... |
20 July 2011
07:55 GMT |
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Investigators at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that chemical compounds in grape seeds can protect the brain against the onset of Alzheimer's disease, and also stop the progress of the condition, if it has already begun evolving. Grape seed polyphenols contain natural antioxidant chemicals. In a n... |
18 July 2011
09:42 GMT |
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Scientists looking for new ways of counteracting the effects of Alzheimer's disease now have a new avenue of research to go on. A team of experts with the RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI) has just provided new insights into how a specific peptide influences the development of this condition. This little-studi... |
4 July 2011
03:32 GMT |
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A group of experts in the United States believes that it may have discovered the reason why coffee appears to be protecting consumers from the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Interestingly, the group found that caffeine itself plays an important role in underlying this capability.The new results indicate that a st... |
22 June 2011
08:52 GMT |
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A group of investigators in the United States announces the discovery of a new molecular mechanism, that may be responsible for how neurons are destroyed in Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.In this spectrum of conditions, brain cells called neurons are destroyed, and researchers have been wondering as to... |
13 June 2011
03:10 GMT |
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Researchers studying Alzheimer's Disease (AD) say that, while numerous causes contribute to the development of this neurodegenerative disease, the misfolding of proteins in the human brain is the root issue that allows the brain to lose its cognitive abilities. Proteins that are folded incorrectly tend to accumu... |
2 June 2011
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Research scientists based at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Barcelona, Spain, say that they recently identified a series of molecules that may be responsible for the development of Alzheimer's.The group revealed that structures called amyloid fibrils (or plaques) – which have been proposed as... |
26 May 2011
18:01 GMT |
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A simple test can be used to test for Alzheimer's disease with tremendous results, a long time before symptoms of the disease begin manifesting themselves. Researchers explain in a new study that this test could reduce Alzheimer's-associated healthcare costs tremendously.One of the advantages this approach ... |
16 May 2011
08:45 GMT |
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Scientists have just discovered a new mechanism through which Alzheimer's disease (AD) is affecting the human brain. According to the study accompanying the findings, high concentrations of beta amyloid protein (BAP) are responsible for this. BAP is a molecule that is produced in very large amounts in the body o... |
3 May 2011
09:26 GMT |
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In a new study, experts managed to identify a previously-unknown neural pathway, that they say could provide them with a better understanding of a variety of devastating neural conditions. The team also found two mutations that are responsible for triggering a condition they discovered 15 years ago. The study was con... |
2 May 2011
10:48 GMT |
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Older people who are seriously gullible without even having to make the slightest effort may be suffering from a form of dementia, the results of a new scientific study show. The work shows that people with one of these conditions have a hard time detecting sarcasm or lies. The new research was conducted by investiga... |
18 April 2011
10:53 GMT |
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Determining whether people who suffer from mild cognitive impairment will go on to develop Alzheimer’s disease is a very important issue in today's medicine, considering the heavy toll that treating this condition takes on public healthcare systems. A way of doing this has just been proposed.Experts at the... |
8 April 2011
04:41 GMT |
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Over the past few years, numerous studies have began shedding light on the origins of Alzheimer's disease. In the latest such work, experts highlight four genes that play a role in the development of this neurodegenerative condition. Patients suffering from this disease generally tend to be unable to form new me... |
4 April 2011
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A wide range of new treatment options may soon become available for people suffering from Alzheimer's disease, thanks to a new investigation conducted in the United Kingdom. Researchers finally managed to figure out the actions of a protein that has long since been linked with the condition. The toxic protein, c... |
28 March 2011
08:15 GMT |
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In a new scientific study conducted by Canadian researchers, it was discovered that seniors who have a high risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease can avoid the onset of the condition for a prolonged period of time by training their brains to rewire themselves. This also helps keep memory loss to a minimum.Expe... |
24 March 2011
11:57 GMT |
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In a new investigation conducted on unsuspecting lab mice, researchers have determined that the proteins largely responsible for forming plaques in the brains of people suffering from Alzheimer's diseases may in fact originate in the liver, not the brain. These findings have important implications for the way re... |
8 March 2011
03:58 GMT |
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In a recent scientific study, it was revealed that blood levels of a specific protein are linked directly to the chances an elderly person has of developing forms of dementia, including Alzheimer’s, over the next decade or so.
The investigation was conducted on elderly people, whose blood levels of the prote... |
25 January 2011
01:36 GMT |
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Patients and doctors alike will soon benefit from the advantages of having access to the first imaging test that will enable the visualization of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the human brain. The test is bound to help millions of patients around the world.
On Thursday, January 20, an advisory committee in char... |
22 January 2011
06:06 GMT |
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According to the results of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that people who suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as adults tend to be more at risk of developing two common forms of dementia as seniors. The research found that individuals who displayed ADHD symptoms tended to go ... |
18 January 2011
08:41 GMT |
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Researchers from the Peninsula Technology Assessment Group (PenTAG), part of the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, carried out a review of research evidence, that played a very important role in the decision taken by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), to extend the availabili... |
18 January 2011
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Newcastle University investigators determined in a new scientific research that people who drink green tea regularly are in fact less prone to developing forms of dementia such as Alzheimer's.In addition, it would appear that the active substance at work in this type of tea are also very effective at protecting ... |
6 January 2011
11:28 GMT |
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A group of French neurologists and neuropsychologists have identified which elements of the semantic memory are the first to be affected by dementia and discovered an explanation to hyperpriming – a phenomenon that appears in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.Semantic memory is the ability to remembe... |
20 December 2010
09:13 GMT |
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A team of researchers at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain have found that there is a small area deep in the brain, called the perirhinal cortex, which is responsible for people's unconscious conceptual memories.All people have this type of memories, that pop out when you least expect them; it's like a... |
16 December 2010
04:39 GMT |
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A group of scientists from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (WUSM) says that it is possible to detect tell-tale signs of Alzheimer's in predisposed, high-risk patients, and adds that this could help doctors treat the condition earlier on than currently possible. Experts are familiar at t... |
15 December 2010
06:14 GMT |
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A team of medical researchers from the University of Bristol have found the explanation for the interaction between brain state and the neural triggers responsible for learning.This discovery could open the way to new methods of strengthening cognitive functions in people suffering from debilitating diseases like Alz... |
9 December 2010
08:48 GMT |
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One of the main obstacles associated with treating diseases affecting the human brain is the defense system nature set in place, in order to prevent microorganisms from migrating to the cortex. Experts are now investigating methods of opening up this barrier in order to develop advanced therapies.Some of the diseases... |
8 December 2010
07:26 GMT |
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University of Cambridge researchers carried out a study that explains why people suffering from dementia have memory difficulties – the memories are not lost, but rather confused, since the brain forms incomplete memories that get mixed up.Until now, everyone thought that having memory problems means forgetting... |
7 December 2010
09:19 GMT |
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People suffering from Alzheimer’s also have serious blood flow problems in the brain, and a team of scientists in Bristol might have just come up with a solution.They have discovered some of the processes responsible for the leaky blood vessels within the brain, and their findings could turn existing drugs into... |
7 December 2010
08:17 GMT |
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In a new scientific study, experts argue that walking may be one of the most efficient method of reducing signs of cognitive decline in seniors exhibiting symptoms related to forms of dementia such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease.The work, presented on November 29 at the annual meetin... |
29 November 2010
05:55 GMT |
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A new investigation appears to indicate that the established drug Metformin, which has been used for years to treat people suffering from type II diabetes, may also be effective in combating symptoms associated with Alzheimer’s disease. The correlation puzzled scientists, as diabetes appears when sugar levels i... |
24 November 2010
11:10 GMT |
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Scientists have discovered that the hormone estrogen may be linked to an increased number of synapses that develop between nerve cells in the brain called neurons. This means that the chemical may be directly linked to an increase in mental performances.As a direct result, elevated concentrations of the stuff in the ... |
18 November 2010
05:51 GMT |
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A thesis from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, revealed that there might be a connection between dementia and the size of the part of the brain called the hippocampus.In the case of Alzheimer’s disease, for example, the atrophy of the hippocampus is very common, and this thesis shows that the same area c... |
17 November 2010
05:58 GMT |
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It is known that having a family history of Alzheimer's means that you have a higher risk of developing the disease, but which of your parents has the disorder is very important, according to a new research carried out by Dr Lisa Mosconi, of the New York University School of Medicine, and colleagues.Patients suf... |
16 November 2010
09:59 GMT |
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It could be that learning and speaking more than one language better prepares the brain to fight off degenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's later on in life, a new study shows. The onset of relevant symptoms may be postponed by as much as five years, scientists now believe. The research team that conducted t... |
9 November 2010
10:23 GMT |
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Well, all smokers know that cigarettes are bad for their health, so here is a new thing, that probably most nicotine-lovers did not know: heavy smoking (two packs a day) doubles the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and dementia.A Kaiser Permanente study, using electronic records of 21,000 men and women for... |
26 October 2010
05:18 GMT |
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A new research supported by the National Institute on Aging, suggests that people who walk at least six miles (9.65 km) per week preserve their memory as they age and also protect their brain size.The study focused on 299 people without dementia, and recorded the number of blocks they walked in one week.Nine years la... |
14 October 2010
04:35 GMT |
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After about 25 years of using the same criteria for diagnosing the form of dementia known as Alzheimer's Disease, healthcare experts are beginning to call out for a new set of guidelines.Back in 1984, the US National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the Alzheimer's Disease and Rela... |
9 October 2010
04:49 GMT |
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