Copyright 2012 Medical News TodayLatest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/alzheimers/admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin)editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors)en-us Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241537.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241537.phpNew research led by Nottingham University in the UK suggests abnormal levels of seven proteins in spinal fluid could be markers for the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, raising hopes of a test for a disease that is difficult to diagnose at the beginning. The researchers write about their findings in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease...Alzheimer's / Dementia Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241443.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241443.phpNew research from UCLA shows that stimulating key area of the brain can improve the memory. Perhaps we'll soon be free from those annoying afternoons, scrambling about looking for the dog's leash or the car keys...Neurology / Neuroscience Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241480.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241480.phpFindings of a report published Online First in the Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals shows that men who smoke seem to be linked with a more rapid cognitive decline. According to background information, smoking is more and more renown as a risk factor for dementia in the elderly...Smoking / Quit Smoking Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241483.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241483.phpA report published Online First in Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, shows that under the revised criteria for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease, many patients who are currently diagnosed with very mild or mild Alzheimer disease dementia could potentially be reclassified as having mild cognitive impairment (MCI). According to John C. Morris, M.D...Alzheimer's / Dementia Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241444.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241444.phpA drug approved for the treatment of cancer appears to quickly reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's in mice, according to a new study from the US published in the journal Science on Thursday. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved bexarotene as a treatment for cutaneous T cell lymphoma, a type of skin cancer, in 2000...Alzheimer's / Dementia Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241304.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241304.phpIn low- and middle-income countries, mild cognitive impairment - an intermediate state between normal signs of cognitive aging, such as becoming increasingly forgetful, and dementia, which may or may not progress - is consistently associated with higher disability and with neuropsychiatric symptoms but not with most socio-demographic factors, according to a large study publishe...Alzheimer's / Dementia Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241301.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241301.php A statement released by The Obama Administration claims there are going to be new measures taken against battling Alzheimer's disease. One of these efforts includes a $50 million increase in the amount of money that will be used towards new, advanced research. Also, the administration says their Fiscal Year 2013 budget will increase by $80 million for Alzheimer's exploration...Alzheimer's / Dementia Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241241.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241241.phpA male regular smoker has a higher risk of rapid cognitive decline, compared to his counterparts who do not smoke, researchers from University College London, England, reported in Archives of General Psychiatry...Alzheimer's / Dementia Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241183.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241183.phpOne of the most distinctive signs of the development of Alzheimer's disease is a change in the behavior of a protein that neuroscientists call tau. In normal brains, tau is present in individual units essential to neuron health. In the cells of Alzheimer's brains, by contrast, tau proteins aggregate into twisted structures known as "neurofibrillary tangles...Alzheimer's / Dementia Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241242.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241242.phpNew revised criteria could mean that a considerable number of patients currently diagnosed with mild or very mild Alzheimer's, might in fact be reclassified as having MCI (mild cognitive impairment), John C. Morris, M.D., of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, wrote in Archives of Neurology...Alzheimer's / Dementia Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241197.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241197.phpOne of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have discovered a weakness in a component of brain cells that may explain how the aging process occurs in the brain...Alzheimer's / Dementia Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241131.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241131.phpIt can be difficult to distinguish between people with normal age-associated memory loss and those with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI). However people with aMCI are at a greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD), and identification of these people would mean that they could begin treatment as early as possible...Alzheimer's / Dementia Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241107.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241107.phpThe same gene mutations linked to inherited, early-onset Alzheimer's disease have been found in people with the more common late-onset form of the illness. The discovery by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis may lead doctors and researchers to change the way Alzheimer's disease is classified...Alzheimer's / Dementia Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241085.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241085.phpFor decades, researchers have debated whether Alzheimer's disease starts independently in vulnerable brain regions at different times, or if it begins in one region and then spreads to neuroanatomically connected areas...Alzheimer's / Dementia Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241087.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241087.phpUsing some of the most powerful nuclear magnetic resonance equipment available, researchers at the University of California, Davis, are making discoveries about the shape and structure of biological molecules - potentially leading to new ways to treat or prevent diseases such as breast cancer and Alzheimer's disease...Breast Cancer Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241071.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241071.phpResearchers from the Center for Vital Longevity at the University of Texas at Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center have completed a large-scale neuroimaging study of healthy adults from age 30 to 90 that measured beta-amyloid protein - a substance whose toxic buildup in the brain is a diagnostic marker for Alzheimer's disease...Alzheimer's / Dementia Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241119.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241119.php The way in which Alzheimer's Disease spreads in the brain has been the subject of debate for many years. Two opposing theories have the disease starting independently in weakened brain regions over time, or it beginning in one region and then spreading neuroanatomically connected areas...Alzheimer's / Dementia Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241037.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241037.phpResearchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have discovered that decaffeinated coffee may improve brain energy metabolism associated with type 2 diabetes. This brain dysfunction is a known risk factor for dementia and other neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's disease. The research is published online in Nutritional Neuroscience...Diabetes Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240914.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240914.phpMemories in our brains are maintained by connections between neurons called "synapses"...Neurology / Neuroscience Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240888.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240888.php Researchers at the Temple University's School of Medicine recently identified a protein in the brain that could have a major role in regulating the creation of amyloid beta, the major component of plaques implicated in the development of Alzheimer's disease...Alzheimer's / Dementia Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240823.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240823.phpA protein recently discovered in the brain could play a key role in regulating the creation of amyloid beta, the major component of plaques implicated in the development of Alzheimer's disease, according to researchers at Temple University's School of Medicine...Alzheimer's / Dementia Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240787.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240787.phpSpanish researchers, led by Pedro Carmona from the Instituto de Estructura de la Materia in Madrid, have uncovered a new promising way to diagnose Alzheimer's disease more accurately. Their technique, which is non-invasive, fast and low-cost, measures how much infrared radiation is either emitted or absorbed by white blood cells...Alzheimer's / Dementia Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240801.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240801.phpFindings published Online First by Archives of Neurology, a JAMA/Archives journal, show that people who keep their brain active throughout their lives with cognitively stimulating activities like reading, writing and playing games seem to have lower levels of the β-amyloid protein, which is the major part of the amyloid plaque in Alzheimer disease...Alzheimer's / Dementia Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240779.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240779.phpLed by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, scientists have, for the first time, created stem cell-derived, in vitro models of sporadic and hereditary Alzheimer's disease (AD), using induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with the much-dreaded neurodegenerative disorder...Alzheimer's / Dementia Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240782.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240782.phpThe Mayo Clinic released its study of aging report today and announced that more than six percent of Americans, aged seventy to eighty-nine years, suffered from mild cognitive impairment (MCI). They also state that the data show more men are affected than women, and those with only high school education seem more affected than those with some level of higher education...Alzheimer's / Dementia