Archive for January 14th, 2009
Stockholm, Sweden -- Midlife coffee drinking can decrease the risk of dementia/Alzheimer's disease (AD) during the later part of life. This conclusion is made in a Finnish Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Aging and Dementia (CAIDE) Study reported in the January 2009 issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease (Volume 16:1)........ (Source: Medicineworld.org: New Article Alert)
By the time they have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, a number of patients' decision-making ability is so impaired that they cannot give informed consent to participate in research studies. Close family members are left with the decision, but there is no clear policy for this so-called "surrogate" consent. Because of that, research about the increasingly common disease is often stalled........ (Source: Medicineworld.org: New Article Alert)
(IOS Press) Researchers at Banner Health's Sun Health Research Institute have uncovered evidence that Alzheimer's disease may be clinically confirmed in patients with apolipoprotein E2 homozygote. The results of their study are published in the January 2009 issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
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(Research Institute of Molecular Pathology) The DREAM-gene which is crucial in regulating pain perception seems to also influence learning and memory. This is the result of studies carried out by researchers in Seville, Spain, and Vienna, Austria. The new findings could help explain the mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease and yield a potential new therapeutic target. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Aim. To explore the relationship between wandering behaviour and familiar environment in community-residing persons with dementia in Korea.Background. Numerous non-pharmacological interventions have been developed to decrease behavioural symptoms and to increase the quality of life among persons with dementia. Although the concept of familiarity is very important and environmental interventions using the concept should have been developed for persons with dementia, no study examining even the direct relationship between familiar environment and wandering has yet been published.Design. A descriptive, cross-sectional survey design.Methods. A convenience sample was gathered of 77 non-institutionalised, community-dwelling persons with dementia and their family caregivers in Seoul and Wonju, So...
Four cups of coffee a day could keep Alzheimer's at bay. Drinking three to five coffees daily in middle age 'cuts the risk of developing the disease in old age by two-thirds'. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Four cups of coffee a day could keep Alzheimer's at bay. Drinking three to five coffees daily in middle age 'cuts the risk of developing the disease in old age by two-thirds'. (Source: the Mail online | Diet)
The move, which has been opposed by pharmaceutical industry critics, allows drugmakers to distribute medical journal articles that describe unapproved uses for drugs.
Late-onset Alzheimer's disease has been associated with the allele of a gene on the X chromosome that mediates cell-cell adhesion. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
A new study provides a novel theory for how delusions arise and why they persist. NYU Langone Medical Center researcher Orrin Devinsky, MD, performed an in-depth analysis of patients with certain delusions and brain disorders revealing a consistent pattern of injury to the frontal lobe and right hemisphere of the human brain.
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