Can Traumatic Brain Injury Cause Dementia?
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Being Patient
| August 9th, 2017
We know that your genes play a big part in your risk for various diseases, but up until the ’90s it was believed that…
Alzheimer’s Gene Testing – A Blood Test for Alzheimer’s Disease Detection?
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Being Patient
| August 7th, 2017
Expert Opinion: Who Should Get A Genetic Test for Alzheimer’s Disease? Direct-to-consumer genetic testing is becoming more common as people opt to understand how…
Video: Is It Alzheimer’s or Another Type of Dementia? How the Experts Make a Diagnosis
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Being Patient
| July 26th, 2017
Although the National Institute of Health has published medical reports on guidelines to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, it can sometimes take years for patients to…
Missing Link Discovered Between Immune Cells and Alzheimer’s
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Being Patient
| July 14th, 2017
A lot of research is looking into what happens inside an Alzheimer’s brain to cause the destruction of neurons and blood vessels. Researchers have…
Mice With Alzheimer’s Gene and Poor Diet at Greater Risk
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Being Patient
| July 11th, 2017
We all know that poor diet leads to poor health but scientists have now studied the impact on mice who carry ApoE4, the Alzheimer’s gene,…
Unravelling Synapses, the Crucial Connections That Form Memories
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Jeff Borghoff
| July 7th, 2017
Dr. Tara Spires-Jones, Director of the Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems at the University of Edinburgh, is trying to understand how synapses are…
Alzheimer’s Is a Disease That Discriminates: Why Women?
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Being Patient
| July 5th, 2017
For decades scientists have ignored crucial gender differences in the way men and women experience disease. With research on everything from stroke to cancer…
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