Alzheimer's News

"All of my life, I've been the curious one. It's a good thing to have," Sharp said recently, adding that he always looked for new or different ways to do something.

When the brain's primary learning center is damaged, new neural circuits arise to compensate for the lost function, a new study has found.

Ryan Kent has joined the Bowles Rice LLP law firm as an associate practicing in the areas of energy, oil, natural gas, real estate, and tax law.

Event: The annual Alzheimer's Association Remembering Our Stars gala was held Saturday, April 13, at the Depot in downtown Minneapolis.

Angie Ahnstedt's "Memories on the Farm" will be auctioned at the Alzheimer's Association Memories in the Making art auction.

The Alzheimer's Association and the Caregiver Resource Center of Sullivan County will present Pain Assessment and Management for Individual's with Dementia, sharing information and problem-solving to assess and manage pain when an individual is coping with dementia.

Researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY, have found that people who have skin cancer are 80 percent less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than those who do not have skin cancer.

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Stark County authorities need help finding an 82-year-old Homeworth man with Alzheimer's Disease who has been missing since Wednesday evening.

The McGill Centre for Studies in Aging & the Knowledge Transfer Office of the Douglas Mental Health University Institute present the Molson Lecture Series on Alzheimer's Disease, sponsored by the Molson Knowledge Exchange Fund.

The Spalding County Sheriff's Office and the family of woman first reporting missing last July are asking for the help from the public to locate her.

Agastache 'Licorice Candy' is a special plant, not only because of its beauty. 'Licorice Candy' was raised by Andy and Melissa Van Hevelingen, who are donating proceeds from the plant to the Alzheimer's Association in honor of Melissa's uncle, Orlin Roth, and Andy's mother, Frances Van Hevelingen.

For the first time, scientists have created human embryos that are genetic copies of living people and used them to make stem cells - a feat that paves the way for treating a range of diseases with personalized body tissues but also ignites fears of human cloning.

AUSTRALIAN of the year Ita Buttrose has called on every local government association and community across Australia to make their towns and cities dementia friendly to combat negative attitudes about the condition.

The research, conducted by UCLA's Michael Fanselow and Moriel Zelikowsky in collaboration with Bryce Vissel, a group leader of the neuroscience research program at Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical Research, appears this week in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The New York City Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association offered a Thursday, May 2, 2013 performance of Broadway's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike , the new comedy by Christopher Durang starring Tony and Emmy Award Winner David Hyde Pierce and Tony and Academy Award nominee Sigourney Weaver .

People who have skin cancer may be less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease, according to new research published in the May 15, 2013, online issue of Neurology , the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

MetLife Foundation today announced the recipients of its 2013 Awards for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease: Yueming Li, Ph.D., member and professor, Sloan-Kettering Institute and director and professor, Graduate Program in Pharmacology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and Lennart Mucke, M.D., director, Gladstone Institute of ... (more)

A novel drug candidate, J147, is able to reverse memory deficits and improve several aspects of brain function in mice with advanced symptoms of Alzheimer's disease , finds research in BioMed Central's open access journal Alzheimer's Research & Therapy.

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