Archive for February 24th, 2010

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  Damaged Protein May ID Alzheimer’s in Healthy Adults

  High levels of damaged tau proteins may help doctors predict Alzheimer's disease in healthy...
  
  

• Feb 24, 2010

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  Caspase-1 genetic variation is not associated with Alzheimer’s disease risk

  Conclusion: Our negative findings in the Spanish population argue against the hypothesis that CASP1 genetic variations are causally related to AD risk. (Source: BMC Medical Genetics - Latest...
  
  

• Feb 24, 2010

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  Testing for a Genetic Link to Alzheimers

  Last year, a study in the New England Journal of Medicine asked whether the children of Alzheimer's patients should find out whether they were genetically predisposed to the same fate. Defying conventional wisdom, the researchers concluded that people who... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical...
  
  

• Feb 24, 2010

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  Smoothing that does not blur: Effects of the anisotropic approach for evaluating diffusion tensor imaging data in the clinic

  To compare the effects of anisotropic and Gaussian smoothing on the outcomes of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) voxel-based (VB) analyses in the clinic, in terms of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) enhancement and directional information and boundary structures preservation.DTI data of 30 Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients and 30 matched control subjects were obtained at 3T. Fractional anisotropy...
  
  

• Feb 24, 2010

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  Napping Boosts Brain Power

  Researchers in the US found that napping boosts brain power by clearing out the brain's temporary storage space so it can absorb new information: they also propose that this clearing out process happens during a specific stage of...
  
  

• Feb 24, 2010

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  Napping Boosts Brain Power

  Researchers in the US found that napping boosts brain power by clearing out the brain's temporary storage space so it can absorb new information: they also propose that this clearing out process happens during a specific stage of sleep... (Source: Alzheimer's / Dementia News From Medical News...
  
  

• Feb 24, 2010

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  Damaged protein identified as early diagnostic biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease in healthy adults

  Researchers have found that elevated cerebrospinal fluid levels of phosphorylated tau231, a damaged tau protein found in patients with Alzheimer's disease, may be an early diagnostic biomarker for Alzheimer's disease in healthy adults. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)

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• Feb 24, 2010

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  National Alzheimer's Call Center

  Funding Opportunity Number: HHS-2010-AOA-AC-1010 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: Income Security and Social ServicesCFDA Number: 93.048Eligible Applicants Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name HHS-AoA (Source:...
  
  

• Feb 24, 2010

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  Living with Schizophrenia

  A decade ago psychologist Ronald Levant, then at Nova Southeastern University, was telling some of his colleagues at a conference about patients with schizophrenia whom he had seen recover. One of them asked rhetorically, “Recovery from schizophrenia? Have you lost your mind, too?”

  Until recently, virtually all experts agreed that schizophrenia is always, or almost always,...

  
  

• Feb 24, 2010

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  Hugh Dennis leading the charge for team Alzheimer’s Society at launch of Bupa Great Yorkshire Run

  Actor and comedian Hugh Dennis today called for people in Yorkshire and beyond to sign up to raise money for people with dementia in this year’s Bupa Great Yorkshire Run. (Source: Alzheimers...