A UT Health Science Center follow-up on longevity study shows mice with Alzheimer’s genes improve with treatment.

A critical missing “Golden Alert” issued after an 84-year-old man diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease disappears.

INDEPENDENCE, Ky. — A critical missing “Golden Alert” has been issued by Kenton County officials after an 84-year-old man diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease has disappeared..

The local Alzheimer’s Association received a $71,000 grant to educate Latinos about Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.

A team of researchers at UMass Lowell has found a new mechanism by which a key protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease can spread within the human brain.

Researchers have found a new mechanism by which a key protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease can spread within the human brain. The study provideas a new explanation of how the protein tau, a normal human protein that becomes toxic in Alzheimer’s patients, can appear in their cerebrospinal fluid.

Individuals who report having greater purpose in their lives appear less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease or its precursor, mild cognitive impairment, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

March 1, 2010 – A research who has spent over 20 years studying Alzheimer’s on the cellular level thinks his team has made a discovery that he thinks offers hope that patients in early stages of the disease might someday be cured.

( IOS Press ) A team of researchers at UMass Lowell has found a new mechanism by which a key protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease can spread within the human brain. The findings of the team from the UMass Lowell Center for Cellular Neuroscience and Neurodegeneration Research appear in the February issue of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.

MONDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) — Noting that brain scans suggest that a new drug reduces plaque deposits in the brains of certain Alzheimer’s patients by 25 percent compared to a placebo, researchers say the scans could become a useful tool to study treatments for the disease.

DUBLIN—-Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Alzheimer’s Disease: Current Treatment Practices and Opportunities - 2010″ report to their offering.

Yes, yes, it hath charms to soothe a savage breast (or beast, if you prefer to repeat a common mistake). But researchers are finding that music may be an effective balm for many other afflictions: the isolation of conditions such as autism and Alzheimer’s disease, the disability that results from stroke, the physical stress of entering the world too early.

Anchorage police are searching tonight for a 51-year-old woman who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and was last seen at her South Anchorage home around noon.

Elan Corporation, plc today announced that findings from a Phase II study which suggested bapineuzumab reduced amyloid-beta deposits in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease patients as measured using a neuroimaging technique known as [11C]PiB PET, were published in the February 28, 2010 online edition of Lancet Neurology. Bapineuzumab is a compound under development by Pfizer and Janssen Alzheimer …

DUBLIN—-Elan Corporation, plc today announced that findings from a Phase II study which suggested bapineuzumab reduced amyloid-beta deposits in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease patients as measured using a neuroimaging technique known as [11C ]PiB PET, were published in the February 28, 2010 online edition of Lancet Neurology.

TARA HAGAN The Observer A first-time writing contest launched by the local Alzheimer’s Society earlier this year has been a success, organizers say.

A renowned football coach will be keynote speaker at an Oklahoma City symposium focusing on issues facing Alzheimer’s caregivers.Frank Broyles, former longtime football coach and athletic director for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks , will speak at the Alzheimer’s Symposium on Saturday at Crossings Community Center, 2208 W Hefner.Broyles is the author of “Coach Broyles’ Playbook for …

THE VILLAGES — Jackie Campbell recalls a time years ago when she watched a couple eating in McDonald’s, neither saying a word to the other.

THE VILLAGES — Every young girl dreams of the moment when her father will walk with her, arm in arm, down the aisle on her wedding day. For Keri Barney, the moment began as simply that: a dream.

Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder named for the German physician Alois Alzheimer, who first described it in 1906.