A neurologist's personal battle against Alzheimer's disease
Abnormal tau protein found in neurofibrillary tangles can be found in the brain at least several years before the onset of cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease. Now a fascinating Dutch study of 78 cognitively normal,...
Wendy Mitchell, in her wonderful book Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir, tells of her frustration when asking her supervisors in the UK National Health Service for accommodation for her early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Wendy...
Ten days ago, officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that Medicare coverage for Aduhelm (aducanumab) would apply only to patients participating in approved clinical trials. Recall that on June...
The National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA) was signed into law by President Obama on January 4, 2011. The act created the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease (and related dementias). The plan has been updated annually,...
Our vision appears to have a complicated relationship to dementia. Posterior cortical atrophy is a rare variant of Alzheimer’s disease in which the amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles first form in the back of...
Perhaps the biggest Alzheimer’s news in 2021 was the controversial FDA approval of the anti-amyloid monoclonal antibody Aduhelm (aducanumab). Controversy surrounds the mixed results of two parallel phase 3 trials. Both trials showed efficacy at removing...
Among the lifestyle modifications that can reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s and slow its progression is adherence to a Mediterranean-style diet. The MIND diet (Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay) is an amalgam of the...
We’ve talked a lot so far about clinical trials of several so-called disease-modifying drugs for Alzheimer’s disease. These are medications designed to slow and perhaps even stop the progression of Alzheimer’s. Most of them so...
In a previous post, I mentioned being interviewed for a segment on CBS Sunday Morning. I found out yesterday that the interview will air this Sunday as part of a larger story on the...
Jack, our English cocker spaniel, is seven years old, middle aged for a dog. He may be a little neurotic, after all he is a spaniel, but he is still sharp as a tack and...
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