Harvard Gazette (October 16, 2019): In a First, Scientists Pinpoint Neural Activity’s Role in Human Longevity - October 17, 2019
Arthur Kleinman, MD, is the author of The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor. He is one of the most renowned and influential scholars and writers on psychiatry, anthropology, global health, and cultural issues in medicine. Educated at Stanford University and Stanford Medical School, he has taught at Harvard ...
Read more...USA Today (October 10, 2019): Women may be Under-Diagnosed for Alzheimer’s, While Men Over-Diagnosed, New Study Suggests - October 17, 2019
As a lifelong Alzheimer’s researcher, Dorene Rentz sees many brain scans with amyloid plaques, a telltale sign of the disease that ravages the brains and memories of its victims.
But there’s one scan she’s unable to see: that of her husband, Ray Berggren.
Never did she think that one day her 73-year-old husband would be part of ...
Read more...Wall Street Journal (September 23, 2019): Her Alzheimer’s Research Includes Her Husband - September 23, 2019
The Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) is pleased to announce an opening for a two-year Clinical Fellowship in Dementia at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and related institutions beginning July 1, 2021.
The goal of the non-degree program is to introduce exceptionally-qualified individuals to the successes and demands of a clinical career in dementia and ...
Read more...TIME (September 19, 2019): How I Learned to Be a Better Doctor From My Wife’s Struggle With Alzheimer’s - September 19, 2019
In the fall of 2011, one month shy of his 59th birthday, Steve Johanson was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Faced with “his worst nightmare,” Steve, a construction project manager from Watertown, Massachusetts, and his wife Judy, a family daycare provider, decided to face the disease together. For the next six years, the couple ...
Read more...Massachusetts General Hospital (August 17, 2019): Program Aims to Support Alzheimer’s Caregivers - September 17, 2019
Do you know how to protect your loved ones with Alzheimer if a natural disaster would strike the area?
Alzheimer’s Foundation of American (AFA) has created an emergency preparedness checklist for Alzheimer’s caregivers in the case that a storm would strike their area.
Charles J. Fuschillo, Jr., AFA’s President & CEO says “Floridians are bracing for Hurricane ...
Read more...Being Patient (September 3, 2019): End Stage Alzheimer’s: What to Expect and How to Build Resiliency - September 3, 2019
Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) is a complex, challenging brain disorder that affects many parts of the brain. Although less known than its “cousins” Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, it affects 1.4 million Americans.
Where Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia, it is followed by LBD and then Parkinson’s. Henry Paulson, M.D., Ph. D., University of Michigan, ...
Read more...The Jewish News (August 30, 2019): Lewy Body Dementia Explored - August 30, 2019
Scientists at MIT and MGH have gained new clues into the role of the brain’s blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer’s disease. Recent research has found that damage from Alzheimer’s allows toxins to enter the brain, further harming neurons.
The results are being used to try and develop new drugs to solidify the blood-brain barrier.
The report in MIT ...
Read more...WEARTV (August 30, 2019): Alzheimer’s Foundation of American Offers Caregivers Tips Ahead of Hurricane Dorian - August 30, 2019
A few years ago, John Searle thought his life as he knew it was over.
His body had slowly stopped working. He had trouble walking, he was falling down, he had bad short-term memory and, at 69, he was incontinent.
It was a pattern of decline the retired Canadian engineer from Brantford, Ontario was all too familiar ...
Read more...BBC News (August 25, 2019): ‘There was no hope’: Treatable Disease Often Mistaken for Alzheimer’s - August 26, 2019
IKEA has been exploring new ways to offer more space for lower prices with flatpack housing solutions.
However, the Swedish furniture giant is going one step further and is collaborating with sustainable housing BoKlok and the Queen of Sweden on a project called SilviaBo, according to CNN Business.
Through collaborating with BoKlok, a firm already ...
Read more...The Patriot Ledger (August 13, 2019): MIT, MGH Scientists Report New Insight into Alzheimer’s - August 16, 2019
Protein aggregation — in which misfolded proteins clump together to form large fibrils — has been implicated in many diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and type II diabetes. While the exact role these fibrils play in diseases isn’t fully understood, many of the current treatments for diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s target the aggregation process. However, ...
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