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The search continues for a drug to treat the cause of Alzheimer’s after it was announced recently that a significant clinical trial involving the drug bapineuzumab had failed. According to The New York Times, the 1,100 Americans diagnosed with mild ...

Caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s can be a challenge. Since symptoms of the neurodegenerative condition manifest differently in each person, the resulting behaviors are fairly unpredictable, though memory loss, mood swings, and poor judgment ...

It’s no secret that the key to keeping a fit frame is a healthy diet paired with regular exercise. But recent events suggest that it might also be the key to improved cognitive functioning in older adults. Several studies presented at ...

I always like to share good news – and last week there was a lot of talk about a study that has been hailed as a breakthrough for Alzheimer’s research. It was significant enough to be reported in the scientific journal Nature and the front page of the ...

A study for the Annals of Internal Medicine highlights the challenges of hospitalizing someone with Alzheimer’s disease when they need medical care for another, treatable condition. Disorientation is common for someone with moderate to advanced ...

A recent commentary about Alzheimer’s and other brain diseases is getting attention in research circles.  After all, the author is a Nobel Prize winning scientist. In last month’s commentary in the journal Science, Stanley Prusiner expands on his ...

A new report attempts to measure the cost of care giving for women who are still in the workforce.  The report by the Working Mother’s Research Institute estimates that 6.7 million American woman are devoting 10 billion unpaid hours a year to ...

A neurologist in Texas is determined not to let all the bad news about Alzheimer’s get him down – or his patients.  He says there’s too much fear-mongering in the media and I’m inclined to agree. While there’s no debating that Alzheimer’s is a ...

More than two-thirds of the 5.4 million Americans with Alzheimer’s are women. One reason for this, we believed, is because women live longer than men. But now researchers at Stanford University know there’s something else going on.  They found women ...

Find your purpose in life.  Certainly, it’s great advice for anyone, but now there’s evidence that it could also be helpful for someone with signs of Alzheimer’s. The decade-long study by the Memory and Aging Project at Rush University in ...

Alzheimer’s is a progressive disease that is often difficult to diagnose in its early stages.  However, researchers have discovered new ways to detect Alzheimer’s even before a person shows many symptoms.  This is a positive development in many ...

There is some exciting news on the research front that I would like to share with you.  Two new studies will focus on drugs that might treat Alzheimer’s long before noticeable symptoms appear. Typically, the disease strikes people in their later ...