The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has granted $5.5 million in funding to expand the first large-scale study that aims to identify drugs able to stop or slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, which is being conducted by the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The National…
Dr. Rachelle Doody One of the authorities in Alzheimer’s disease, Dr. Rachelle Doody, is scheduled to give a lecture on the latest updates and developments on the disease, a form of dementia that is estimated to affect at least 5.2 million Americans in 2014…
Self-reported sleep disturbances may be related to a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, according to the results of a study conducted at Uppsala University, in Sweden, which were recently published at the Alzheimer’s & Dementia journal. The researchers analyzed data that included 40 years of self-reports, and…
Second Wind Dreams®, an Atlanta-based international non-profit organization for the gerontological population, is set to present its flagship program Virtual Dementia Tour (VDT®) next week, Thursday, November 6 in New York City. This year’s event is in commemoration of the organization’s National Take the Tour Day, which began in 2013 as a…
A group of investigators from the University of Melbourne, Australia recently developed a simple blood test that could very well change the future of diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease, and may ultimately be a driving force behind the improvement of patient outcomes, as it allows earlier detection of this…
TauRx Therapeutics Ltd, a spin-off company from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, recently hosted a breakfast event to inform both patients and caregivers about their phase III clinical trial, which will test a treatment for behavioral variant Frontotemporal Dementia (bvFTD), and is currently enrolling participants. The “Meet the Experts” breakfast was held on …
The Alzheimer’s Association is awarding a new series of grants to support research on non-drug therapies for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease as a way of advancing the search for a cure for the condition and meeting the needs of projects that are not funded either…
Sleeping properly may help prevent neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease, as it is during sleep that the brain cleanses its system of the “waste” it produces, as explained by Jeff Iliff, who led a University of Rochester Medical Center research team at a recent TEDMED conference, in San Francisco. The researcher…
The electrically charged cells in the nervous system, called neurons, react differently compared to electrical signals at the molecular level, even though they are the same type of cell, according to new research conducted at the University of Missouri. The variability of the neurons, which are responsible for the interpretation and…
A group of experts on Alzheimer’s Disease are contesting the U.S. Government’s pro-active plans to prevent and treat the disease until 2025, as they believe the milestones defined by the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease need to be broadened in scope, increased in scale, and adequately funded in…
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