Recently the number of genes known to be associated with Alzheimer’s disease has increased from four to eight, including the MS4A gene cluster on chromosome 11. New research has expanded on this using a genome-wide association study to find a novel location within the MS4A gene cluster which is associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
The Alzheimer’s Association of Rochester will be offering a support program specifically for people with early to middle stages of memory loss.
( University of California - San Diego ) Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, the Medical University of South Carolina and American Life Science Pharmaceuticals of San Diego have demonstrated that oral administration of a cysteine protease inhibitor, E64d, not only reduces the build-up of beta-amyloid in the brains of animal models for Alzheimer’s disease, but also results in …
Research and Markets has announced the addition of GlobalData ’s new report “The 10th International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases: Post-Conference Review and Analysis” to their offering.
Researchers pinpoint a small RNA that spurs cells to manufacture a particular splice variant of a key neuronal protein, potentially promoting Alzheimer’s disease (AD) or other types of neurodegeneration.
Washington, May 31 (ANI): Scientists have come a step closer to finding out what the causes of Alzheimer’s disease are.
Plans to build a memory care center in Sioux Falls for patients suffering from Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia have been delayed while developers work through regulatory issues with the state, according to a company official. Construction was to have begun last fall on land off of Minnesota Avenue, at West 81st Street and South Audie Avenue, to open the Esprit of Sioux Falls facility …
Recently the number of genes known to be associated with Alzheimer’s disease has increased from four to eight, including the MS4A gene cluster on chromosome 11.
MARIETTA - Mildred Rutherford, 93, grew up in Austell as the eldest of five children, and as an adult, worked as a Sears, Roebuck and Co. statistician for more than 40-years before retiring in the …
Music triggers memories, even for people with Alzheimer’s disease. A big band recording can help them remember their lives when the song was new
WINNIPEG - An Alzheimer’s patient who has been charged with manslaughter in a death at a Winnipeg personal care home has been granted bail.
Recently the number of genes known to be associated with Alzheimer’s disease has increased from four to eight, including the MS4A gene cluster on chromosome 11. New research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Genome Medicine has expanded on this using a genome-wide association study (GWAS) to find a novel location within the MS4A gene cluster which is associated with Alzheimer’s …
Four siblings in a family affected by early-onset Alzheimer’s have been studied by a group of researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. This has been a unique opportunity to make comparative studies and to monitor the development of the disease over a prolonged period of time.
Support for Alzheimer’s caregivers has mostly been in the form of information sharing, skills training, stress-management techniques, peer-support and behavior modification solutions. While important, these external interventions tend to not stick.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has identified major failings in the first 12 of its 100 reports into the quality of elderly care in hospitals in England. The report identified three hospitals as failing to meet essential standards required by law
( The Translational Genomics Research Institute ) A family of naturally occurring plant compounds could help prevent or delay memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).
May 26, 2011 - What if you were told you carried a gene that increases your risk for Alzheimer’s disease? And what if you were told this gene starts to do its damage not when you’re a senior citizen but when you’re young? Brace yourself, here it comes…
( Max-Planck-Gesellschaft ) Stress promotes neuropathological changes that are also seen in Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich have discovered that the increased release of stress hormones in rats leads to generation of abnormally phosphorylated tau protein in the brain and ultimately, memory loss.
An international research consortium led by Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) today announced the selection for funding of a large-scale European clinical trial of Nilvadipine, an Alzheimer’s disease drug developed at the Roskamp Institute in Sarasota.
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive, degenerative disease of the brain for which there is no cure. It is the most common form of dementia, affecting memory, language, reasoning and the ability to perform routine tasks.