Alzheimer's News

LINCOLNSHIRE NHS Foundation Trust will be offering an insight into dementia on Friday, May 24 at Pilgrim Hospital, to coincide with Dementia Awareness Week.

Here are ten of the most significant studies on staving off Alzheimer's, with an expert verdict from the Alzheimer's Society's Jessica Smith That was the claim yesterday from scientists at Oxford University who suggested a daily dose of vitamin B could stave off the condition's devastating progression.

This letter describes the synthesis, structure-activity relationships, and in vivo evaluation of a new series of 2-phenylquinoxaline derivatives for imaging I2-amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease .

Novartis, the Switzerland-based pharmaceutical company, which has a presence in East Hanover, said it would ramp up its Alzheimer's research.

Image: FROM "NEUROSCIENCE: GLIA - MORE THAN JUST BRAIN GLUE," BY NICOLA J. ALLEN AND BEN A. BARRES, IN NATURE , VOL.

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Main Category: Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia Also Included In: Alzheimer's / Dementia ; Respiratory / Asthma Article Date: 21 May 2013 - 1:00 PDT A new study looking at sleep-disordered breathing and markers for Alzheimer's disease risk in cerebrospinal fluid and neuroimaging adds to the growing body of research linking the two.

Researchers at USC have found that a class of pharmaceuticals can both prevent and treat Alzheimer's Disease in mice.

Hosted by the Alzheimer's society on Monday at the Friends' Meeting House, the event encouraged people to talk more openly about the condition, including how to recognise the signs and how to cope if someone you love develops dementia.

Vitamin B for Alzheimer's and dementia delay was the subject of a latest research study that showed that Vitamin B is "the first and only disease-modifying treatment that's worked." A. David Smith, professor emeritus of pharmacology at Oxford University in England and senior author of the research study said that "we have proved the concept that ... (more)

In a study on elderly subjects with increased dementia risk, researchers at the University of Oxford showed that high-dose B-vitamin treatment can slow the atrophy of specific brain regions that are a key component of the Alzheimer's disease process and that are associated with cognitive decline.

Take a look at some of the best in photographs sent to the Suburban News during the week of May 13-17, 2013.

It affects 800,000 people in the UK and is one of the main causes of disability later in life ahead of cancer, cardiovascular disease and stroke.

Jane Marks has been executive director of the West Virginia chapter of the Alzheimer's Association since 2001.

It's Alzheimer's Society national Dementia Awareness Week this week and I'm looking forward to taking part in a number of events around Swansea, some of these I can go to with Mum and she can share the feeling of being part of something that will involve people across the country.

Members of New York City's philanthropic, business, health care and Alzheimer's communities will join forces at the annual "Forget-Me-Not" Gala, An Evening to End Alzheimer's hosted by the Alzheimer's Association, New York City Chapter.

Editor's Note: This is the first of a two-part series on Alzheimer's research. Check back soon for "Part 2: Taking care of patients and families." Sandy Walker knew something was wrong with her husband back in 2006.

The devastating effect of Alzheimer's disease on bilingual people has been thrown into focus in Canada, where the sudden loss of a second language can leave sufferers feeling like strangers in their own country.

Experts are not sure how sleep-disordered breathing and Alzheimer's are linked, but evidence suggests some people who suffer from the sleep problem may already be starting to develop pre-symptomatic dementia.

It's the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S., that's why dozens participated in the Alzheimer's Walk on the Adair County YMCA grounds.