Insidermedicine in 60 – March 9, 2009
From London – According to research in the journal Biomaterials, stem cells may be able to repair brain damage after a stroke. Researchers inserted tiny scaffolds with stem cells attached into the stroke damaged brains of rats and found that the stem cells grew into new tissue to fill the holes caused by the stroke. While this study is promising, more research is needed before this technique can be tried on humans. From Paris – According to research...Read Full Story
Alzheimer's and frontotemporal lobar degeneration can can be difficult to tell apart, researchers report
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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 30 (HealthDay News) -- In the vast majority of cases, researchers can distinguish between Alzheimer's and another form of dementia with shared symptoms by using a specific type of PET scan that looks for evidence of plaque...Read Full Story
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Whats the difference between Alzheimers and Dementia ? dementia a symptom: the loss of memory. Alzheimers is a disease in which the patient is suffering from chronic, long term dementia. basically dementia is the name of what is happening to an alzheimers patient. Dementia is the whole kettle of fish
Alzheimers is one type of dementia where at least they can pin it down as to what is causing the dementia
Alzehiemers is a subset of dementia might be the technical term...Read Full Story
I have worked in the charity sector for some time and often used this resource ' Look to the Stars ' which tells you which charities celebrities support, and which charities are supported by which celebrities. It's useful when you are researching someone to see if they support a charity like yours, or have a particular interest. And also interesting if you just like finding out about celebrities. Annie Lennox supports more than 30 different charities When I looked at education, cancer...Read Full Story
Vascular Cognitive Impairment: Preventable Dementia
dementia statistics – click on the image below for more information.
In recent years there has been a radical reapprisal of the concept of vascular dementia. There has been a move away from an Alzheimer-based diagnostic paradigm towards one more appropriately tailored for vascular disease. Vascular Cognitive Impairment presents a new definition for this class of cerebrovascular, neurodegenerative process with an emphasis on early...Read Full Story
We all are getting older, and along with accepting this condition - the performance of our memory is also getting fall off. Therefore, someday you may often forget to certain things! The memory loss is not only worried by older people, because nowadays it also can attacks at the earlier age of 20. Thankfully, there are also some simple things and helpful ideas to protect your memory in order to keep it sharp ! And the following are some easy steps and ideas on how to improve the performance...Read Full Story
VASCULAR DEMENTIA: Stroke risk and sequelae define therapeutic approaches Although the mainstay of treatment remains control of risk factors for stroke, … cognitive decline. (Postgraduate Medicine)
vascular dementia stroke – click on the image below for more information.
The symptoms of vascular dementia are often distinct from those of Alzheimer’s disease. The memory deficits that define Alzheimer’s disease are not always observed in the initial stages of vascular dementia, which is...Read Full Story
Deep brain stimulation, a procedure used to treat Parkinson's, epilepsy and chronic pain, enhanced the memory of epilepsy patients with memory problems, a small study has found. Neurologists say this result "breaks new ground" in exploratory treatments for Alzheimer's and dementia.
The top dogs in Whitehall have begun to cotton on to the profound health and social care challenge dementia poses, however no such epiphany seems to have taken place in terms of where and how this burgeoning population is going to live. Dementia directly ...
DOVER — The Children's Museum of New Hampshire is now holding a monthly program that invites people living with Alzheimer's disease or dementia into the Museum for socialization and friendship. The Museum's next Alzheimer's Café will be held ...
The identification of a hexanucleotide repeat expansion in the C9ORF72 gene as the cause of chromosome 9-linked frontotemporal dementia and motor neuron disease offers the opportunity for greater understanding of the relationship between these disorders and other clinical forms of frontotemporal lobar degeneration. In this study, we screened a cohort of 398 patients with frontotemporal dementia, progressive non-fluent aphasia, semantic...
where the large majority of older people and people with dementia currently live,” said the authors. The 10/66 Dementia Research Group interviewed approximately 15,000 people over 65 years of age who showed no signs of dementia in eight low- and middle ...
Cerebrospinal fluid levels of Aβ42 appear to be decreased at least five to 10 years before some patients with mild cognitive impairment develop Alzheimer disease (AD) dementia whereas other spinal fluid levels seem to be later markers of disease, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.
Multi-Infarct Dementia - Pipeline Review, H2 2011 - The 'Multi-Infarct Dementia - Pipeline Review, H2 2011', provides an overview of the Multi-Infarct Dementia therapeutic pipeline. This report provides information on the therapeutic development for Multi ...
An Alzheimer's guide, with links, news, and comments. The disease is progressive form of presenile dementia that is similar to senile dementia, first symptoms are impaired memory which is followed by impaired thought and speech.