• Caregivers Hold Keys to the Car for Seniors

    Updated: 2012-12-28 23:04:39
    The impressions of caregivers overwhelmingly topped all other reasons for ending the driving privileges of older people with dementia, results of a cohort study showed.

  • MRI May Tell Alzheimer's from Other Dementias

    Updated: 2012-12-27 04:16:57
    Magnetic resonance imaging has potential as a screening tool for biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease or frontal-lobe degeneration, investigators reported.

  • Alzheimer's Disease: Amyloid 'Proponents' Soldier On

    Updated: 2012-12-20 22:07:02
    The failure of yet another anti-amyloid drug for Alzheimer's disease in phase III trials this summer turned out not to be the strategy's death knell after all.

  • Another Amyloid Drug Fails in Alzheimer's

    Updated: 2012-12-20 22:03:19
    A once-promising drug for Alzheimer's disease, designed to scavenge plaque-forming amyloid proteins, failed to meet its endpoints in two phase III trials.

  • Alzheimer's Studies Reveal Spouse Influence

    Updated: 2012-12-20 04:00:00
    Alzheimer's disease patients with adult child or other non-spouse caregivers appear to be underrepresented in clinical trials, which may influence results, researchers found.

  • Keeping Your Elderly Loved Ones Safe

    Updated: 2012-12-17 21:25:34
    No one likes to admit it, but we are all getting older. We are watching our parents, grandparents and other relatives age, as well. Watching them age and seeing them become more dependent on others for various things such as their safety and well-being can be difficult for the entire family. There may come a [...]

  • Is Deep Brain Stimulation the Alzheimer’s Answer?

    Updated: 2012-12-06 13:52:17
    Doctors have implanted pacemakers into the brains of Alzheimer’s patients in a new experimental treatment at Johns Hopkins. The procedure is a deep brain stimulation and is very similar to treatments already being practiced on Parkinson’s patients. Holes are drilled into the skull and wires are attached  into the fornix of the brain.  The fornix [...]

  • CTE a Progressive Condition, Brain Study Shows

    Updated: 2012-12-04 21:25:16
    Chronic traumatic encephalopathy -- the brain disorder that has been tied to depression and suicide in professional athletes -- appears to have an "ordered and predictable progression," researchers found.

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