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Early Contributor to Alzheimer's?

People who are genetically at risk for Alzheimer’s show differences in brain activity in their twenties and thirties.

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Signs of an Alzheimer's Vaccine

New research hints that a 20-year-old immunotherapy lowers risk for the disease.

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New Guidelines Redefine Alzheimer's

The first new guidelines in more than 25 years incorporate new technologies that enable early detection.Thanks to long-term studies using brain imaging and biomarker analysis, scientists know that...

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Two Devices Treat Alzheimer's

Companies hope that brain stimulation will work where drugs have failed.Pharmaceutical companies developing Alzheimer’s drugs have faced one hurdle after another. The most effective treatments are...

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Brain Scan for Alzheimer's

A recently approved plaque-tracking dye can improve doctors’ ability to identify Alzheimer’s.Beginning next month, doctors can use a brain scan to better diagnose Alzheimer’s. The U.S. Food and Drug...

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Study Suggests Alzheimer's Disease Can Be Stabilized

In a small trial, patients given an existing drug showed no cognitive decline over three years.Alzheimer’s patients given a drug that is already used to treat immune disorders saw their condition...

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Pfizer "Disappointed" with First Results for Alzheimer's Drug Candidate

Amyloid-recognizing drug has no effect in patients with a high-risk genetic background.On Monday, Pfizer announced the first of four expected sets of results for its Alzheimer’s drug bapineuzumab. As...

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Dementia: The Self-Portraits of William Utermohlen

When he learned in 1995 that he had Alzheimer’s disease, William Utermohlen, an American artist living in London, immediately began work on an ambitious series of self-portraits.About the art work:...

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On Living with Dementia

I first turned 65 when I was 41. Geezered almost overnight after a viral attack to my brain in 1988, I was soon diagnosed with static dementia, displaying classic multiple cognitive deficits, including...

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The Cost of Dementia: Worse Than We Thought

A new study shows that dementia will have a crippling impact on the U.S. economy.Dementia’s financial impact on the U.S. economy in 2010 was around $109 billion, reported researchers in the New England...

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Memory Implants

A maverick neuroscientist believes he has deciphered the code by which the brain forms long-term memories.Theodore Berger, a biomedical engineer and neuroscientist at the University of Southern...

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Yet Another Alzheimer’s Treatment Fails in Large Trial

A mixed-antibody treatment does not protect patients from cognitive decline.More bad news from drugmakers trying to develop treatments for Alzheimer’s disease: Yesterday, Baxter announced that its...

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