November 03, 2016

Today's Top Alzheimer's News

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CorrectionA November 2, 2016 Huffington Post blog by UsAgainstAlzheimer’s co-founder Trish Vradenburg highlighted an award given to Alzheimer’s advocate Greg O’Brien in her mother’s name at this year’s UsAgainstAlzheimer’s Out of the Shadows Dinner. According to Vradenburg, “In her battle against Alzheimer’s, Greg said that my mother had the “guts of an archangel.” That while she succumbed to the disease, “her heart, her soul, have survived, and I believe her spirit is with us here tonight. Welcome Bea!” Those words are both wrenching and deeply inspiring for me to type. My mother has come to me in my dreams for 24 years. But in that moment she was there in the room with me, with Greg, urging us on to speak from the heart and keep up the good fight.”


MUST READS

A November 3, 2016 STAT News article reported that “There is no rigorous evidence that curcumin does anything for Alzheimer’s.”

A November 2, 2016 Scientific American article reported that “A brain plaque inhibitor developed by Merck is now being tested in larger studies for efficacy against the still unstoppable neurodegenerative disease.” 

A November 2, 2016 EurekAlert.org article reported that “A new article published online by JAMA Psychiatry used data from a study of 79 cognitively normal adults to examine whether cortical amyloid levels in the brain, a marker of preclinical Alzheimer disease, was associated with self-reported loneliness.”