Category: Alzheimer's / Dementia

Computer games offer an exciting and engaging way of helping older people with dementia keep their brain active and learn new skills.

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Applied NeuroSolutions, Inc. (OTC BB:APNS), a biotechnology Company focused on the development of products for the early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (”AD”), today announced the achievement of a key milestone directed to a multi-product program to develop serum-based diagnostic tests for Alzheimer’s disease.

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Women over 90 are significantly more likely to have dementia than men of the same age, according UC Irvine researchers involved with the 90+ Study, one of the nation’s largest studies of dementia and other health factors in the fastest-growing age demographic. The researchers reviewed an analysis of 911 people enrolled in […]

Women over age 90 are significantly more likely to have dementia compared to men in their 90s, according to a study published in the July 2, 2008, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Research shows that dementia risk for both men and women increases from age 65 to […]

Care home practitioners and old age psychiatrists have been warned that they could face long jail sentences if they allow a patient with dementia to have sex even with a long-term partner.

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A new study from the UK suggests that low levels of the “good” HDL cholesterol is linked to poor memory, and decline in memory, in middle aged adults. The study is the work of researchers at University College, London, and is published in the 30th June […]

Scientists in the UK and Canada have made a significant step forward in the search for new drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease. An ageing population means that neurodegeneration, such as Alzheimer’s disease, is one of the major health problems in the developed world. But researchers at the University of York and Simon […]

Calpain inhibitors never forget: improving memory in Alzheimer disease mice Overactivation of proteins known as calpains, which are involved in memory formation, has been linked to Alzheimer disease.

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Low levels of high-density lipoproteins (HDL) - the “good” cholesterol - in middle age may increase the risk of memory loss and lead to dementia later in life, researchers reported in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology: Journal of the American Heart Association. Observing 3,673 participants (26.8 percent women) from the Whitehall II […]

As more adults age into the high-risk period for cognitive impairment, clinicians need simple and reliable methods to identify where they may have problems in everyday life that reveal underlying changes in the brain.

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