Each person’s brain impaired by Alzheimer’s disease is unique. Research, however, has found that the way in which the disease alters a brain is relatively similar. Alzheimer’s medications have been created to target certain processes that are known to be affected by the onset of the disease. Learning how these medications work may be beneficial […]
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Early Signs and Symptoms of Alzheimer’s
As we get older, we may start to notice differences in certain skills such as reasoning, critical thinking, and memory. Although a certain amount of change is normal in healthy brain aging, knowing the signs and symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease is important. What is Alzheimer’s Disease? Alzheimer’s disease is one type of dementia. Dementia is […]
Tips for Caregivers of Dementia Patients During COVID-19
As life begins to transition back to normal, trips outside the home may become more common, necessary, or emotionally needed. Depending on your comfort level, you may choose to leave your home more often under the proper precautions, or you may choose to continue to limit your trips outside the home. Whether limiting trips or […]
Does Intermittent Fasting Lead to Better Brain Aging?
The bottom line on intermittent fasting and brain aging is: The jury is still out. Although a recent review article, published in The New England Journal of Medicine,summarizes the generally positive effects of intermittent fasting on health, findings differ across mice, rat, primate, and human studies. There is little data on the effect of intermittent […]
From Mice To Wo/Men: A Novel Approach To Treating Alzheimer’s Disease
Hot off the press, researchers at MIT share their characteristic out-of-the-box approach to solving the underlying problem of Alzheimer’s disease. Leave it to the MIT braniacs to design a medical device that may treat Alzheimer’s AND do so by applying a relatively simple, known concept to a very complex puzzle. Researchers at the Picower Institute […]
Could a Biological Marker for the Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease be in the Eye of the Beholder?
The neurobiological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease are amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, both of which are specific neurological changes that occur in the brain at a microscopic level. This is why a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease can be so difficult in a living person: We can’t look at the brain under a microscope to check for […]
