Best Friends Approach when Caring for Those with Alzheimer's and Memory Loss
There is a quiet revolution taking place amongst caregivers of those with Alzheimer's and dementia, and it's really quite simple. (Source: Disabled World)...
POSTED 08/31/2010 at 09:50 PM --
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Do you suffer destination amnesia? The older we get the more we forget who we have told things
Older adults are more likely to have destination memory failures - forgetting who they've shared or not shared information with, according to a new study. (Source: the Mail online | Health)...
POSTED 08/31/2010 at 07:49 PM --
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Seniors Experience Destination Amnesia
Older adults experience 'destination amnesia' ...and over-confidence with false beliefs... (Source: Disabled World)...
POSTED 08/31/2010 at 11:45 AM --
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Destination amnesia
Elderly adults are more likely to have destination memory failures forgetting who they've shared or not shared information with, as per a newly released study led by Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute. It's the kind of memory faux pas that can lead to awkward or embarrassing social situations and even miscommunication in the doctor's office. Ironically, after making these memory errors elderly adults remain highly confident in their false beliefs........ (Source: Medicineworld.org: New Article Alert)...
POSTED 08/31/2010 at 08:15 AM --
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Older adults experience 'destination amnesia'
(Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care) I'm sure I told you that already! Older adults are more likely to have destination memory failures -- forgetting who they've shared or not shared information with, according to a new study led by Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)...
POSTED 08/29/2010 at 11:00 PM --
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Debating The Success Of Alzheimer's Research
An editorial in the journal Lancet debates the problems of drug development for Alzheimer's disease. The feature questions why so many trials are failing at the phase 3 clinical trial stage and asks whether the animal models used prior to this are the most effective way to test the drugs. It also suggests treatments should perhaps start to focus more on the changes in the brain that happen before symptoms like memory loss start to appear. However, it notes that these are difficult to replicate in animal models... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)...
POSTED 08/29/2010 at 03:00 AM --
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Memory loss campaign launched
A campaign urging people who are worried about their memory to seek help as soon as possible has been launched by the Alzheimerâs Society. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)...
POSTED 08/28/2010 at 02:00 AM --
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Disruption of odour quality coding in piriform cortex mediates olfactory deficits in Alzheimer's disease
Patients with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease exhibit perceptual deficits in odour identification, often before the appearance of overt memory loss. This impairment coincides with the initial accumulation of pathological lesions in limbic olfactory brain regions. Although these data imply that odour stimuli may be effectively used as biological probes of limbic dysfunction, the precise neural mechanisms underlying the olfactory deficits in early Alzheimer’s disease remain poorly understood. In the current study, we combined functional magnetic resonance imaging with an olfactory cross-adaptation paradigm to test the hypothesis that perceptual codes of odour quality in posterior piriform cortex are degraded in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. In elderly control subjects,......
POSTED 08/27/2010 at 08:47 PM --
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Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation Funds AgeneBio To Advance Pharmacological Neural Stabilizer Technology
The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) announced that it has awarded a grant of $240,000 to AgeneBio Inc. to develop a new class of small-molecules that have promise in treating amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), a neurological condition that often progresses to Alzheimer's disease and affects more than 3 million aging Americans. Approximately fifteen percent of aMCI patients progress to an Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis every year. In aMCI, new research has shown that excess neural activity is associated with greater memory loss and predicts progression to AD... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)...
POSTED 08/27/2010 at 04:00 AM --
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UF Scientists Find First Link In Humans Between Memory And Nerve Cell Production
Production of new nerve cells in the human brain is linked to learning and memory, according to a new study from the University of Florida. The research is the first to show such a link in humans. The findings, published online and in an upcoming print issue of the journal Brain, provide clues about processes involved in age- and health-related memory loss and reveal potential cellular targets for drug therapy. The researchers studied how stem cells in a memory-related region of the brain, called the hippocampus, proliferate and change into different types of nerve cells... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)...
POSTED 08/27/2010 at 03:00 AM --
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Nerve cell production linked to memory in humans
Production of new nerve cells in the human brain is linked to learning and memory, according to a new study. The research is the first to show such a link in humans. The findings provide clues about processes involved in age- and health-related memory loss and reveal potential cellular targets for drug therapy. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)...
POSTED 08/26/2010 at 10:00 PM --
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Lancet Editorial: Why are drug trials in Alzheimer's disease failing?
Source: Lancet
Area: News
The author of this editorial discusses recent publications that have focused on the problems for drug development in Alzheimer's disease and recent drugs that have failed in clinical trials in this area (see NeLM links below). The author suggests that identifying patients earlier before irreparable memory loss and tissue destruction in the brain occurs might be a better approach to tackling the disease. The editorialist writes, "Drug-industry scientists are failing themselves if their animal studies are poorly done or use the wrong model, and their companies are failing academics who do their phase 3 trials with them, trial participants, and shareholders. Perhaps the problem is "translational research" itself: a phrase much bandied around, but does anyone know wh......
POSTED 08/26/2010 at 06:00 PM --
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Scientists find link in humans between nerve cell production, memory
(University of Florida) Production of new nerve cells in the human brain is linked to learning and memory, according to a new study in Brain. The research is the first to show such a link in humans. The findings provide clues about processes involved in age- and health-related memory loss and reveal potential cellular targets for drug therapy. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)...
POSTED 08/25/2010 at 11:00 PM --
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For Healthy Aging, Eating Berries May Activate The Brain's Natural Housekeeper
Scientists have reported the first evidence that eating blueberries, strawberries, and acai berries may help the aging brain stay healthy in a crucial but previously unrecognized way. Their study, presented at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), concluded that berries, and possibly walnuts, activate the brain's natural "housekeeper" mechanism, which cleans up and recycles toxic proteins linked to age-related memory loss and other mental decline. Shibu Poulose, Ph.D... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)...
POSTED 08/25/2010 at 02:00 AM --
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Berries activate brain cleanup
BOSTON, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Blueberries, strawberries and acai berries activate a natural brain mechanism to clean up proteins linked to memory loss in the elderly, U.S. researchers say.
Brain - Garden strawberry - Protein - Blueberry - Health (Source: Health News - UPI.com)...
POSTED 08/24/2010 at 11:51 PM --
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Eating berries may activate the brain's natural housekeeper for healthy aging
Scientists report the first evidence that eating blueberries, strawberries, and acai berries may help the aging brain stay healthy in a crucial but previously unrecognized way. Their study concludes that berries, and possibly walnuts, activate the brain's natural "housekeeper" mechanism, which cleans up and recycles toxic proteins linked to age-related memory loss and other mental decline. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)...
POSTED 08/24/2010 at 03:40 AM --
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Arthritis may block Alzheimer's
Conclusion
This valuable scientific research has furthered the understanding of how the GM-CSF protein, which is increased in rheumatoid arthritis, could give some protection against Alzheimerâs disease. As the researchers suggest, it is possible that GM-CSF acts by ârecruitingâ microglia to the brain, which then attack the characteristic amyloid plaques of Alzheimer's.
This type of animal model is currently the best way of studying potential Alzheimerâs drug treatments in the laboratory. However, it should be remembered that Alzheimerâs is a complex disease and animal models may not be fully representative of the brain changes and cognitive problems seen in the human form of the disease. Also, the cognitive tests that can be performed in these mice may not capture the full range......
POSTED 08/23/2010 at 12:34 PM --
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Eat berries to keep the brain young
Eating berries can help protect the brain against ageing and ward off memory
loss, scientists have discovered. (Source: Telegraph Health)...
POSTED 08/23/2010 at 07:31 AM --
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Eating berries may activate the brain's natural housekeeper for healthy aging
(American Chemical Society) Scientists today reported the first evidence that eating blueberries, strawberries, and acai berries may help the aging brain stay healthy in a crucial but previously unrecognized way. Their study, presented at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, concluded that berries, and possibly walnuts, activate the brain's natural "housekeeper" mechanism, which cleans up and recycles toxic proteins linked to age-related memory loss and other mental decline. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)...
POSTED 08/22/2010 at 11:00 PM --
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Arthritis may hold the key to beating Alzheimer's as protein released reverses memory loss
Tests of mice reveal that memory loss associated with Alzeimer's was partially reversed by the protein, which can also lower the risk of catching the illness (Source: the Mail online | Health)...
POSTED 08/22/2010 at 09:23 PM --
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