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 study to be published on June 28th in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease suggests that drinking coffee in moderate amounts (4 to 5 cups a day) can protect an individual from the development of Alzheimer’s Disease. The research team has concluded that a...
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...
The new guidelines released by the National Institute on Aging/Alzheimer’s Association cover three distinct stages of Alzheimer’s disease. The first two stages are mainly useful for research purposes, while the last stage is most relevant for doctors and patients. The...
In Toronto today, experts at the first Women’s Brain Health Academic Symposium will explore why women are twice as likely as men to develop Alzheimer’s disease. While researchers are speculating that a drop in oestrogen levels after menopause may be a factor, it may...
