May 14, 2018
Japan Times (May 13, 2018): Japan’s Employers Improving Support for Workers with Early-Onset Dementia
Katsushi Oshiro, 43, a former salesman diagnosed with early-onset dementia, takes a bus to the car dealership where he works four days a week, being careful to view his commuting route using photos and a map to avoid getting lost.
Oshiro found out about his illness three years ago, but instead of being forced to quietly retire - as is often the case with people who develop the illness - his Toyota outlet in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, transferred him to a car-washing position.
April 25, 2018
Harvard Gazette (April 24, 2018): Progress and Challenge on Alzheimer’s
A Harvard epidemiologist offered some good news amid the doom and gloom that generally surrounds discussions of Alzheimer’s disease. Its incidence - the number of people diagnosed annually - has fallen substantially in recent years.
April 24, 2018
MIT Museum (April 10, 2018): The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal
The MIT Museum will present The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (May 3, 2018 – December 31, 2018). This traveling exhibition is the first major presentation of Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s pioneering drawings of the brain and brain cells, and also features contemporary visualizations that illuminate the impact of Cajal’s early work on modern day neuroscience.
April 17, 2018
Japan Times (April 10, 2018): Art For All
A project called Artrip is giving people with dementia a creative outlet via art appreciation groups. Yoko Hayashi, a representative of the non-profit organization Arts Alive, says people with dementia speak their minds freely and often lead the discussions.
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April 16, 2018
Harvard Medical School (April 12, 2018): That Evening Sun
Patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia commonly experience sundown syndrome: a sudden worsening of confusion, agitation and aggression at the end of the day.
This daily pattern suggested that sundowning, as the phenomenon is also known, may be governed by the body’s internal biological clock. Synchronized by light and darkness, the circadian clock exerts control over wake/sleep cycles, body temperature, digestion, hormonal cycles and other physiological and behavior patterns. Whether the circadian clock regulated aggressive behavior was unknown
April 12, 2018
The Atlantic (April 11, 2018): Why My Grandmother Carried a Plastic Brain in Her Purse
I remember the bag from my childhood. Transparent and oblong, just large enough to fit a handful of papers, a few essentials, and a plastic brain.
April 10, 2018
Fortune (April 10, 2018): Researchers Just Proposed a Radical New Way of Defining Alzheimer's. Could It Lead to Better Drugs?
Alzheimer’s has long been one of the heaviest therapeutic albatrosses slung round drug developers’ necks.
April 4, 2018
New York Times (March 31, 2018): In the Bronx, Stadium Scents Take Fans Out to the Ballgame
Rochelle Youner, who lives at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, a nursing home in the Bronx, walked up to a kiosk in a common area of the home’s first floor and pressed a button below a small icon depicting a baseball glove.
“That’s the real stuff — that’s a mitt, all right,” Ms. Youner, 80, said, smelling the leathery fragrance emitted from the kiosk, which attempts to bring the ballpark, or at least the smell of it, to the residents.
April 3, 2018
PR NewsWire (April 3, 2018): Lewy Body Dementia Association Announces 24 Research Centers of Excellence
The Lewy Body Dementia Association (LBDA), the leading advocacy group dedicated to raising awareness and advancing research about Lewy body dementia (LBD), announced today the launch of the LBDA Research Centers of Excellence (RCOE). This collaboration features 24 preeminent academic medical research centers across the United States, coordinated by Mayo Clinic.
April 2, 2018
AlzForum (March 28, 2018): 44-Year Study Ties Midlife Fitness to Lower Dementia Risk
New observational data add one more reason to strive for a healthy middle age. Researchers led by Helena Hörder, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, report that women who scored high on a fitness test in midlife were nearly 90 percent less likely than their moderately fit or unfit peers to develop dementia decades later. Also, the fittest women held dementia at bay 10 years longer. The study, now available online, appears in the April 10 Neurology.
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