By melissa | Published: January 3, 2011
The New York Times decided to start the new year on an upbeat note, featuring a front-page story on Saturday titled Giving Alzheimer’s Patients Their Way, Even Chocolate .
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By | Published: December 30, 2010
With the catchy headline: Key to Alzheimer’s: Waste in Cells , the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that a promising avenue for Alzheimer’s research is the accumulation of waste products in the brain’s cells that contribute to the buildup of plaques and tangles that are the disease’s hallmarks. The key to this process is the part of the cell called the lysosome, a structure that contains many enzymes that break down damaged proteins. The research connecting lysosomes to Alzheimer’s is not new, with Dr.
By melissa | Published: December 28, 2010
It’s not every day that a scathing letter to the editor has Alzheimer’s disease as its topic. Yet that’s just what Samuel E. Gandy, MD, PhD and Mount Sinai Professor of Alzheimer’s Disease Research(among other distinguished titles) did on Monday, December 20.
By | Published: December 21, 2010
While the underdiagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias is well accepted, we have to guard against overdiagnosing dementia as well.
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By melissa | Published: December 17, 2010
As I reported in a September blog post , one of the major goals of the first Alzheimer’s Breakthrough Ride cycling event was to support passage of the National Alzheimer’s Project Act , a bill that develops a coordinated national Alzheimer’s disease plan. The 112,000 petition signatures and nearly 10,000 phone calls paid off: on Wednesday of this week the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the bill, meaning that the historic legislation is now on its way to President Obama for his signature.
By melissa | Published: December 17, 2010
I’ve often been amazed at how often my patients with Alzheimer’s disease are better able to express themselves through art and music than with words. While I’ve written before about how art and music therapy, exercise and aromatherapy have all been used to help with agitation in dementia, new research is adding to our knowledge about the benefits of art therapy in particular
By melissa | Published: December 14, 2010
Focus on positive emotions helps those with Alzheimer’s.
By | Published: December 7, 2010
There are over 90,000 special care nursing home beds dedicated to Alzheimer’s disease throughout the country, yet it’s not at all clear how much better (if at all) the lives of those residents are compared with those dementia residents in more typical nursing home beds. Other new dementia care settings are being directed toward small-scale and homelike environments
By melissa | Published: December 3, 2010
While Alzheimer’s disease is of course the number one cause of cognitive impairment, there are unfortunately many others. Those we typically think of, like vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, and Parkinson’s disease dementia, are sometimes considered non-Alzheimer’s dementias .
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