Neuroscience “is a priority” at Stanford University, the school’s president said Saturday during a panel on “Gray Matters.” http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/october/roundtable-gray-matters-100612.html The roundtable on brain research, and how it can be applied in everyone’s life, was moderated by ABC News’ Juju Chang, a Stanford alumni. The panel included Stanford President John Hennessy;..
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I recently read an Op-Ed piece that did the best job I’ve seen of explaining why it’s crucial for the United States to more aggressively find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. In The Star-Ledger of New Jersey, writer Kerry Lonergan Luksic compared Alzheimer’s to a Category 5 hurricane “barreling toward..
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A New Jersey assisted-loving facility is being sued by the family of an Alzheimer’s patient who died of head injuries after she was attacked by another patient, according to The Star-Ledger of Newark. http://www.nj.com/morris/index.ssf/2012/09/lawsuit_filed_over_womans_deat.html The suit was filed last week in Superior Court in Camden by the family of Rita..
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Here’s yet another study on how former National Football League players fall victim to neurological diseases more often than the general population — three to four times more. It all adds insight as to the long-term effect of concussions on athletes. The most recent research tracked more than 3,000 ex-football..
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By the end of next month, people with Alzheimer’s disease will learn whether an experimental drug can halt the progression of their ailment, or if it is a failure like a similar medication that Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson were testing. Drug maker Eli Lilly has told analysts that it..
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Here’s another discouraging setback in the research for a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. On Monday Pfizer Inc. and Johnson & Johnson announced that they were shelving late-stage clinical trials of a drug, bapineuzumab, that many had believed would be the first to be approved by federal regulators to slow Alzheimer’s...
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This just in from the UK: Oldsters who drink up a storm risk brain damage. A study done by British scientists found a link between binge drinking, which is defined as having four or more alcoholic beverages at one sitting, and later memory loss and cognitive decline, according to the..
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Researchers are excited about the prospects for an immune-disorder drug that, at least in initial tests, halted the progression of Alzheimer’s disease for three years, according to USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-07-16/alzheimers-treatment-gammagard/56270084/1 Scientists announced the results of their study involving Gammagard, which is manufactured by Baxter International, at last week’s Alzheimer’s Association..
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At a major Alzheimer’s disease conference in Vancouver last weekend, there were four studies unveiled that basically came to the same conclusion: That exercise can lessen the risk and slow the progression of dementia. There have been dozens of stories written about the various studies, but the best summary that..
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A new study should be lifting the hopes of the pharmaceutical giants who are working on Alzheimer’s drugs that inhibit the brain’s creation of beta amyloid, a destructive protein, according to The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/health/research/rare-gene-mutation-is-found-to-stave-off-alzheimers.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all The study, published online Wednesday in the journal Nature, discovered an uncommon gene mutation..
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