Posted on 02/19/2016 10:30:24 PM PST by Olog-hai
Alzheimer’s disease affects some 35 million people worldwide and is expected to affect 115 million by 2050, but the disease cannot be detected before it has already caused loss of memory and function.
Even then, a long series of tests is required to accurately diagnose Alzheimer's disease, including costly brain imagining scans and even, sometimes, invasive cerebral spinal fluid tests to rule out other diseases.
However, a new discovery by Tel Aviv University, Technion (Rambam Medical Center), and Harvard University researchers is taking the medical community on "a leap forward" in the process of effectively screening and diagnosing Alzheimer's disease, according to a Tel Aviv University press release.
The new study, published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, proposes a new biomarker for cognitive aging and Alzheimer's disease. It is called activity-dependent neuroprotective protein (ADNP), and its levels can be easily monitored in routine blood tests. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
oh great...I’m sure we’ll all be classified and a stamp put on our foreheads.
What was that again...?
Super...you are going to get it. Now what do you do? Curl up in a fetal ball and whimper. Start complaining to everybody who will listen?
Until they have a cure I don’t want to know.
Amazing! This type of advancement in Medical technology can help so many prepare. Thank you for this post. I will forward it on to friends whose parents are currently ill or have suffered from this illness before passing away. I know that they are concerned about it perhaps affecting them as well.
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Then they will have recent memory loss on other subjects, but maintain good long term memory in early Alzheimers.
It is downhill from there. Nothing can stop or reverse it at present.
Aricept, Doneprezil, Namenda can slow it down.
Alzheimes is not a fatal disease so if they don't die from something else they can live a long time until they refuse to eat. - Tom
Well, there goes half of the Trump and Cruz supporters.
That’s OK. After a few months you wouldn’t know anyway.
There is a difference between dementia and Alzheimer’s. To the unaffected, it may appear the same—but it’s not.
People should be careful in making sweeping statements.
What is the difference?
Thanks for sharing your ignorance with us.
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Ooohhh, sorry if you cannot take a joke.
I am currently on relatives #5 an#6 dealing with this crap. I know what I am talking about. And—the first thing you should learn is to keep your sense of humor.
It uptight fools like you that walk around wringing your hands feeling all serious that end up having heart attacks from the stress.
So, go ahead and kiss my sane butt.
Dementia happens usually to the elderly. It is a gradual process of mind deterioration. Alzheimer’s is a disease of the brain that also affects autonomic brain function. It can start much earlier, it’s course can be much faster and it can affect things such as swallowing and breathing.
It’s not that someone just stops eating, they literally forget how to eat.
Finally the “wiring” of things like breathing shut down.
In Dementia, it is physically different. It doesn’t impact the physical nerve functions.
In essence, the test of Alzheimer’s is the elimination of everything else.
I believe you are lying about your experience with the disease if you think that there would only be a ‘few months’ gap between a blood test result on someone with mild impairment and the inability to remember that result.
You certainly doubled down from what might have been taken as a case of ignorance.
You are an idiot.
It was a joke.
Perhaps you should be first in line? Is your sense of humor completely eroded?
Go eat your mashed vegetable dinner. It’s almost 3 PM. Time for Supper.
How about these experiences:
*. Picking shit up off the floor because the person did not put on pants, nor did they realize they evacuating their bowels.
*. Having them prepare a meal of hot dogs with toasted buns and frozen hot dogs.
*. Finding the keys for the car in the bathroom.
You would make a good politician. Get caught in a lie, and claim it was a joke. If you are going to claim to be an expert, and lack experience, try some book learning.
Integrity - can’t be bought, and easy to lose.
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