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Why Alzheimer’s drugs fail

Brain plaques, long considered the chief killer of brain cells and the cause of Alzheimer's disease, ... Full story

Prevent Alzheimer’s? No evidence you can

Despite years of speculation about the best way to prevent Alzheimer's disease, there's no proof yet ... Full story

Alzheimer’s Vaccine AD02 Already In Clinical Phase II

AFFiRiS AG's clinical Alzheimer's vaccine candidate AD02 has already progressed to phase II clinical testing. It may therefore be possible to confirm the efficacy of the vaccine as early as during 2012. Indeed the start of this efficacy study comes only five months after the completion of the corresponding phase I study. The company is active in several disease areas and is currently developing a ... Full story

Common Obesity Gene Linked To Brain Tissue Loss, Raising Alzheimer’s Risk

New research from the US reveals that a common variant of the FTO obesity gene carried by more than one third of Americans that causes them to gain weight and puts them at risk for obesity, also leads to loss of brain tissue, thereby increasing their risk of developing neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's later in life... ... Full story

Gene makes people fat, raises Alzheimer’s risk

A variant of an obesity gene carried by more than a third of the U.S. population also reduces brain volume, raising carriers' risk of Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Go to Source Full story

Acclaimed Alzheimer’s Clinician-Researcher To Head Methodist Neurological Institute Alzheimer’s Disease Center

Gustavo C. Román, M.D., an internationally recognized expert in vascular dementia, joins the Methodist Neurological Institute (NI) to continue the quest to find a cure for Alzheimer's, a disease diagnosed in the United States every 72 seconds. Román will hold a distinguished endowed chair and lead the Methodist Alzheimer's Disease Center. He will develop a multi-disciplinary team to treat patients using cutting-edge therapies, and to ... Full story

Needs Of Alzheimer Population Addressed In Healthcare Reform Legislation

As the leading care, research and advocacy organization for Alzheimer's disease, the Alzheimer's Association applauds Congress for including significant provisions in the final healthcare reform legislation to address the health concerns of a growing Alzheimer population. While the Association did not endorse any specific healthcare reform legislation, the Association did work to ensure that all bills under consideration contained the strongest provisions possible to address ... Full story

Rapid Memory Decline Possible, Even In Stage Before Alzheimer’s Disease

Memory and thinking skills may decline rapidly for people who have mild cognitive impairment, which is the stage before Alzheimer's disease when people have mild memory problems but no dementia symptoms, and even more rapidly when dementia begins, which is when Alzheimer's disease is usually diagnosed. The research is published in the March 23, 2010, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American ... Full story

Cognition Declines Four Times Faster In People With Alzheimer’s Disease Than Those With No Dementia

People with Alzheimer's disease experience a rate of cognitive decline four times greater than those with no cognitive impairment according to a new study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. The results of the study, which is only the second population-based study to quantify the rate of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease, are published in the March 23, 2010 issue of the ... Full story

Dangerous Custodians Immune Cells As Possible Nerve-cell Killers In Alzheimer’s Disease

Microglia are the cells responsible for immune surveillance in the brain, and they initiate protective inflammatory reactions in response to tissue damage and infection. An international team under the leadership of LMU neuroscientist Professor Jochen Herms has now shown that these cells may actually make a significant contribution to the loss of neurons associated with Alzheimer's disease. About 1.2 million people are thought to suffer ... Full story


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