News tagged with 'Dementia'

Look for the signs of declining financial skills one year before the development of Alzheimer's disease, report researchers in this published study.

Alzheimer's disease cases are soaring at a rapid pace. By next year, a predicted 35.6 million around the world will suffer, which represents a 10 percent increase in four year. If the pace continues, the numbers of those with Alzheimer’s will double every 20 years. The U.S. still has no national plan, as many European countries do.

Three new genes have been found to be associated with Alzheimer's disease, however gene research has so far yielding nothing more than drugs to delay symptoms of the disease. The cause and cure are still elusive and controversial.

A study in the journal Neurology suggests activities such as playing card games, doing puzzles, reading and writing, which keep the brain active, can delay the start of symptoms of dementia.

According to newly published research, you may begin to show the signs of Alzheimer’s disease and memory problems in your 50s if you inherit a common gene variant known as, ApoE4. What's perplexing is that not everyone with the gene develops Alzheimer's disease.   

Unveiled at the annual meeting of the Alzheimer’s Association in Vienna, Austria, brain research into the disease include the old antihistamine, dimebolin, and an vaccine that reduced the number of tau tangles by 40 percent.  Also vitamin D and curcumin research looks promising. 

Supplements of omega-3 fatty acids or DHA along with moderate alcohol consumption, may help fight the ravages of Alzheimer's disease, these three studies find, although the results were mixed. 

Staying on the job longer, may offset the mind-robbing effects of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new British study, which shows that cognitive reserves can be modified later in life. This study adds weight to the “use it or lose it” concept. 

According to the newly released 2009 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures report, the total healthcare costs of caring for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia are more than triple those of people 65 and older without the disease.

The daughter of an elderly couple, named in a Minnesota Department of Health investigation into nursing home abuse, is having a hard time finding out what happened. A Bush administration 11th hour rule change makes it easier for the industry to keep secrets.  

Researchers at Genentech Inc. have discovered a new mechanism of nerve-cell death that might play a role in Alzheimer's disease, paving the way for potential new treatments to battle the devastating neurodegenerative illness.

A newly released study suggests insulin has the ability to protect the brain from harmful proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

A new study finds the risk of developing dementia may depend on your personality - the calm and centered types had a 50 percent reduced risk versus the neurotic and agitated.  Social isolation seems to make a difference as well.

A new study suggests long-term use of antipsychotic drugs in patient’s that have Alzheimer’s disease nearly doubles their rate of death after one year, adding to safety concerns already known about this class of medications.

Spikes in blood sugar levels can take a toll on memory by affecting the dentate gyrus, a region of the brain within the hippocampus that helps to form memories. The effects can be seen even when levels of blood sugar, or glucose, are only moderately elevated, a finding that may help to explain normal age-related cognitive decline