A recent article reported in the Yale Journal of Medicine and Law examined the expanding field of musical therapy. Music therapy is being proposed as a treatment for autism, epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease, to name a few. Highly individualized programs...
Durin Technologies Inc, a New Jersey based company has developed a new blood test for Alzheimer’s that they believe is 96% accurate and can perhaps detect the disease even before symptoms such as memory loss occur. Currently doctors use evaluation of behaviour...
A new study from researchers at Pennsylvania State University and the Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging finds that caregivers and their relatives who suffer from dementia widely disagree on the amount and quality of care both given and received. The study identified...
A fascinating experiment has Alzheimer Research heading off in a new direction. Stuart Feinstein, professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, and co-director of UCSB’s Neuroscience Research Institute, and his research team found that when they...
Cognitive neuroscientist, Ellen Bialystok spoke to the New York Times about her 40 years of research into the benefits of bilingualism and its role in delaying the onset of Alzheimer’s disease symptoms. Her conclusion is essentially that through using two languages...
Maria Shriver writes movingly about her experience as a child of Alzheimer’s following the death of her father Sargent Shriver from Alzheimer’s disease, in a report she wrote in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association. The report included a nationwide survey and...
