Dementia News

The Caregivers' Journey: Free educational and supportive sessions for family caregivers, Tuesday, Nov.

Main Category: Alzheimer's / Dementia Also Included In: Clinical Trials / Drug Trials Article Date: 04 Nov 2009 - 23:00 PST Pfizer Inc and Medivation, Inc.

The old and the young.... P. Eims It's hard enough to watch the physical deterioration of our dogs.

Memory and language tests can reliably reveal "hidden" early dementia, say UK experts.

Dementias are upon us. The greying of our society is resulting in an increase of those with various dementias because the most significant cause of the condition is growing older.

Angela Lunde is a dementia education specialist in the education core of Mayo Clinic's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the Abigail Van Buren Alzheimer's Disease Research Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in August 2005, my sister and I noticed that Mom had trouble remembering things.

Scientific Commentary With or without FUS , it is the anatomy that dictates the dementia phenotype Sandra Weintraub and Marsel Mesulam Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Centre, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA sweintraub@northwestern.edu Not so long ago, Alois Alzheimer's dominance over Arnold Pick appeared total and ...

The answer to why people develop Alzheimera s disease could be a step closer thanks to a A 264,000 grant.

Caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias may fear that their loved one will wander and become lost.

Lisa Brodsky was working for the Dallas Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association as the Director of Programs and Services in 2007 when she met she met two men with a good idea.

American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias Edited by Myron F. Weiner and Anne M. Lipton 4th ed, 557 pp, $125 Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Publishing, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-5856-2278-8 JAMA.

ARE we too quick to prescribe psychotropic medication for emotional and behavioural problems? Take Alzheimer's disease.

If you care for someone with Alzheimera s disease, you have to take care of yourself, too.

Main Category: Alzheimer's / Dementia Also Included In: Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Clinical Trials / Drug Trials The FDA has approved a Physician-Sponsored IND and continuation of the fourth 6-month open label extension of PRX-03140, a novel 5HT4 partial agonist for the potential treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.

How to diagnose vascular dementia My mother had mini-strokes last year and so the doctor told her to be careful and takes the medications properly so she would not have dementia.

A MAJOR campaign has been launched to encourage people to consider donating their brains for medical research.

Oct. 14, 2009 -- Patients with advanced Alzheimera s disease or other age-related dementias often suffer unnecessarily near the end of life probably because their condition is not recognized as fatal, researchers say.

DAVID Blunkett has pledged to donate his brain to help find a cure for dementia.

The Alzheimer's Day Care and Resource Center is offering a two-day training to community members who wish to work with people with dementia and their families in the new, state-of-the-art center.