
How Does DBS Help Alzheimer’s?
VIDEO: DBS (Deep Brain Stimulation) is becoming very precise. In this TED Video, DBS pacemakers connect to the brain’s fornix. This allows doctors to turn
VIDEO: DBS (Deep Brain Stimulation) is becoming very precise. In this TED Video, DBS pacemakers connect to the brain’s fornix. This allows doctors to turn
Bupa’s new study helps healthy adults realize how prevalent and frustrating, memory loss can be. Play their new, free online “Memory Game”.
Two new studies suggest that odor identification tests can help diagnose Alzheimer’s. They may even be able to predict the onset of memory problems. The tests are easy to administer and inexpensive. Find out more.
VIDEO+ARTICLE: One thing can be said about all Alzheimer’s drug trials: they take way too much time & money. New 3-D culture systems hope to
“Hope” is the story of Dr. Bill Garfinkle. See how he reinvented himself from neuroradiologist to artist after his diagnosis of Alzheimer’s.
VIDEO+ARTICLE: Neuroscientists are reprogramming skin cells in order to discover newer, better treatments for Alzheimer’s.
VIDEO: The singer’s family hopes spreading the word will help find a cure. See what they have to say.
VIDEO + TRANSCRIPT: As country legend Glen Campbell entered the final stages of Alzheimer’s, his family allowed NBC to spend some time with him. See
ASSISTANCE VIDEO + ARTICLE: Hilarity for Charity® and the Home Instead Senior Care® network are working together to award home care grants, to those providing
VIDEO + ARTICLE: The Cognoptix Eye Test for Alzheimer’s is in clinical trials. It is already doing so well that this week, it received an
VIDEO + ARTICLE: It’s National Stroke Awareness Month. Experts Offer Tips on How to Recognize and Prevent Strokes & Vascular Dementia.
Many of us should take aspirin to prevent vascular dementia, strokes and heart attack. We don’t, even when we can get it naturally from food. Why are doctors ignoring U.S. guidelines? Which foods work best? Video+Article
Betanin makes beets red. Betanin slows the #1 Alzheimer’s culprit, brain plaque. Learn the way it fights dementia and how much to eat or drink.
Three important dementia studies focus on HS-AGING, a type of dementia almost as common as Alzheimer’s in the 85+ group. Yet few people have heard of it. Why? What makes it different?
An intriguing study of 120 grandmothers might surprise you. Doctors know socially engaged people have better cognition and less dementia. But can a person get too much of a good thing? What’s the right balance?
Enjoy this great duet between a musician with dementia and his son. A triumph of spirit over Alzheimer’s! Sing-a-long if you like!
It looks like a sneeze cannot give anyone Alzheimer’s. While Alzheimer’s abnormal disease proteins do spread from cell-to-cell, they are not “infectious”. Check out the facts.
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