Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease

Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease

A discussion about dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A resource for families trying to better understand dementia, the causes of dementia, treatment for alzheimers, and breaking news from the medical community about dementia and... [more]

A discussion about dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A resource for families trying to better understand dementia, the causes of dementia, treatment for alzheimers, and breaking news from the medical community about dementia and alzheimers.

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Today, I received an email from a reader telling me about how her father was misdiagnosed with Alzheimer's when in fact he was suffering from a brain tumor. Bob DeMarco Alzheimer's Reading Room Editor Many people assume that if an older person becomes forgetful and can no longer deal with some of the basic activities of daily living, he or she must be suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. This is often the case, but not always. I often receive emails from someone telling me their loved one was misdiagnosed by a personal care physician. I write repeatedly about the importance of getting a specialist involved ... Read Full Story
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By Christian Goodman While emerging research has taught us much about the effects of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias on the brain, what causes Alzheimer's is an altogether different story. In a nutshell, the brain cells aren't getting enough oxygen. But why is this happening? Dementia and Alzheimer's are often used interchangeably but Alzheimer's disease is really a progressive disease who's effects lead to dementia. The symptoms of the syndrome known as Dementia include, memory problems, difficulty speaking, orientation disturbances and problems with judgment. While Alzheimer's is the most common type of dementia, Parkinson's disease, head trauma, and strokes can also cause dementia. Most ... Read Full Story
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Seniors in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, with mild to moderate memory loss, are writing Weblogs to help them make sense of their daily lives. And the activity, they say, is slowing the onset of their symptoms. "Many people, once they're diagnosed with AD, simply give up on life," said Alice Young, a 75-year-old former psychotherapist who divides her time each year between Florida and Minnesota. "And those are the people who go down more quickly." Bob DeMarco Alzheimer's Reading Room Editor I wrote a few articles recently about how using Google search activates regions of the brain associated with memory and is ... Read Full Story
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By Robert Sanders Part of the problem in finding drugs which may be effective for dementia is that our ideas about what constitutes dementia have been undergoing radical change in recent years. It had been traditional to distinguish between Alzheimer's dementia, or senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type (SDAT) and multi-infarct dementia (MID), which is theoretically caused by small strokes which insidiously pick off brain tissue to the point where an individual's cognitive function is compromised. It was originally thought that MID accounted for 60%+ of the dementias. Accordingly, early attempts to treat the dementias concentrated on the multi-infarct dementias. The initial hypothesis was ... Read Full Story
Written by harrydelgado on
Part of the problem in finding drugs which may be effective for dementia is that our ideas about what constitutes dementia have been undergoing radical change in recent years. It had been traditional to distinguish between Alzheimer’s dementia, or senile dementia of the Alzheimer’s type (SDAT) and multi-infarct dementia (MID), which is theoretically caused by small strokes which insidiously pick off brain tissue to the point where an individual’s cognitive function is compromised. It was originally thought that MID accounted for 60%+ of the dementias. Accordingly, early attempts to treat the dementias concentrated on the multi-infarct dementias. The initial hypothesis was that these multiple ... Read Full Story
Watch this slideshow on dementia, a collection of disorders that affect the brain such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Vascular (multi-infarct) dementia (MID), Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), Pick disease and more. Learn about causes, diagnosis, treatments, medications and caring for people that suffer from these disorders.  
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This article will provide helpful links and descriptions for online support groups for the caregivers of Alzheimer's and dementia patients.Contributor: Sally Ann MurphyPublished: Nov 24, 2009  
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In order to communicate effectively with a person suffering from Alzheimer's disease you need to come to an understanding that they are now living in a new world -- I often refer to this as Alzheimer's world....When I hear these words -- this is not the person I knew, I am greatly saddened. I hear these words on television, read them on the Internet, and in the newspaper. I hear these words in person. In most cases the person speaking these...  
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Alzheimer's: Destructive Amyloid-Beta Protein May Also Be Essential for Normal ...Science Daily (press release)23, 2009) — Alzheimer's disease is thought to be caused by the build-up of a brain peptide called amyloid-beta. That's why eliminating the protein has been ...TAU discovery: Excess protein linked to Alzheimer's must be prevented before ...Jerusalem Postall 7 news articles »  
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The aim of this study was to investigate the association between psychotic symptoms in dementia with Lewy bodies and brain perfusion on single photon emission tomography. Based on factor analysis in 145 patients, psychotic symptoms were classified into five symptom domains (factor 1 to 4-related symptoms and delusions). The relationship between each symptom domain and brain perfusion was assessed in 100 patients with dementia with Lewy bodies...  
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The UK's leading dementia research charity, the Alzheimer's Research Trust, has awarded over £200,000 for major new research into Alzheimer's disease at the University of St Andrews. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, affecting around 417,000 people in the UK.  
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