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  New guidelines for Alzheimer’s disease patient care and caregiver support developed by the Alzheimer’s Association’s National Plan Care and Support Milestone Workgroup are detailed in a paper, “Report on milestones for care and support under the U.S. National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease,” published…

Dublin, Ireland-based global pharmaceutical company Allergan and Heptares Therapeutics, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company whose proprietary technologies have created new medicines with the potential to transform Alzheimer’s disease, have entered into a global research and development and commercialization partnership for the treatment of Alzheimer’s…

More than 15 million unpaid caregivers around the world are estimated to provide daily care to people living with Alzheimer’s disease, usually without much outside support and often at risk to their own health and wellbeing. A collaborative research team at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)…

A collaboration between researchers at two universities in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in Canada has resulted in the discovery of an innovative, non-invasive diagnostic agent for Alzheimer’s disease, where before such a definitive diagnosis would have been possible only from a brain autopsy. However, new findings by research teams led by…

Austin-based Alzheimer’s Association Capital of Texas Chapter (known as Alzheimer’s Texas) announced that the organization has separated from the national organization, based in Chicago. The organization, a leader in Alzheimer’s care, education, and support in Central Texas, and the state’s pre-eminent force for new funding for Alzheimer’s disease and dementia research, says that the…

DKR Fund 2014 grant recipient Dr. Chandramalika Basak, of the Center for Vital Longevity (CVL) at the University of Texas at Dallas, has discovered through her studies that playing video games can have a positive effect on cognitive abilities, brain structure, and brain function. The research was funded by the…

MitoQ, the world’s first antioxidant formula demonstrating ability to penetrate mitochondria in order to deliver antioxidants in meaningful levels, has been selected for the USA’s National Institute of Aging’s (NIA) Interventions Testing Program (ITP) — an internationally recognized anti-aging testing program funded by the US Government — reports…

Scientists with the University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto, Canada, have discovered a method of diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease with more than 80 percent accuracy. The innovative technique evaluates the interplay between four linguistic factors, and the researchers are developing automated technology to detect these impairments. The study, led by…

Researchers at University of Southern California at Los Angeles (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina have developed a brain prosthesis designed to help individuals suffering from memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and other forms of dementia form new…

A gene signature that could be used to predict the onset of diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, years in advance has been developed in a study published in the open access journal Genome Biology. The objective of the study, entitled “A novel multi-tissue RNA diagnostic of…