Affecting over 50 million people, Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia and primarily occurs in people over the age of 65. The pathology of the disease in the brain is mainly characterized by two factors: beta-amyloid plaques outside the nerve cells and tau proteins. The ...
Unlike Alzheimer’s disease, memory loss isn’t the typical first symptom. Instead, people with vascular dementia can have different signs, depending on the area of the brain that’s affected, such as problems with planning or judgment. The FDA hasn’t approved any drugs to treat this type ...
“Patients often struggle for years with not getting a proper diagnosis, especially when it happens earlier in life, because primary care providers and other practitioners are not really expecting or looking for Alzheimer’s in these age groups,” he said. This is why doctors opt for a slight...
s diseaseNarrative productionPausesCompensatory mechanismLexical-semantic impairment is one of the earliest symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and is usually examined by single word processing tasks. During speech production, pauses are often investigated as a hallmark of a patient's lexical-semantic...
The brains of people living with Alzheimer's are riddled with plaques: protein aggregates consisting mainly of amyloid beta. Despite decades of research, the real contribution of these plaques to the disease process is still not clear. A research team led by Bart De Strooper and Mark Fiers at...
Researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center developed a self-administered test, called the SAGE test, that can help spot early symptoms of cognitive issues such as Alzheimer’s disease. Because the test is self-administered, it could be taken virtually anywhere. Our...
Alzheimer’s disease and other forms ofdementia, which are more likely as you age, can changeyour brainin ways that make you more suspicious of others. You might notice that a loved one with dementia starts to hide things such as jewelry or money or becomes convinced that people have bad ...
My 94 year old grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's three weeks ago. Today my aunt took her to a gynecologist because on Friday while washing her clothes she found a large amount of feces in her underwear. Her daytime care giver had mentioned that she was passing dark blood or somet...
Your loved one has late-stage Alzheimer’s or dementia. Your loved one has frequent accidents or injuries at home. You’re afraid for the safety of your loved one. You find yourself struggling physically with caregiving. (For example, you strain your back helping up a loved one who has fa...
election year, it seems like a good time to consult memory experts. Sha leads Stanford Medicine's Memory Disorders Division and divides her time between clinical work with patients who have Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia and leading clinical trials in patients with these ...