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 ...
Caught in a lie? You are one of the new FR douche bag old people without a sense of humor.
I’ll tell you what. How about you walk around thinking you won an argument on the Internet. If you ever want to know about Alzheimer’s I will sum it up for you: if you are diagnosed and you love your family, blow your brains out.
So, go brag to your wife,Nic she hasn’t left you yet. And the show her the posts. She will see what a complete loser you are. Because if she shares your bed, she must have a sense of humor.
Now, the sun is setting. It’s probably time to take your pill and suppository.
Sounds like you want to take on Dr. Tiller’s role and start putting down people that don’t meet your standards for quality of life.
Go get a psychiatric evaluation to see whether you are a threat to others.
My mother-in-law ran the whole course. Took 12 years. We finally gave up and moved her when she went #2 in the toilet, but didn’t know she had not raised the lid. There were many many other disgusting things, but that one broke the camel’s back.
My mother has dementia (98 YO). She has been on those drugs (Aricept and donepezil are the same) and also Exelon, but it is standardized curcumin (standard treatment in Indian Neurology) that has stopped progression and even restored cognitive ability over the past nine months. She is remembering recent things now that I had forgotten.
Information offered to anyone interested; YMMV because dementia is multi-factorial in its causation.
I was posting about Alzheimers, a specific form of dementia..
Dementia can be caused by factors other than Alzheimers.
That is why they have to check several factors to find out what is causing the dementia. It could be something else, besides Alzheimers. -tom
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