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What is Alzheimer's ?
Alzheimer's is a a degenerative brain disease of unknown cause that causes problems with memory, thinking and behavior. Symptoms usually develop slowly and get worse over time, becoming severe enough to interfere with daily tasks .
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Current Alzheimer’s information
- Biopsychosocial frailty and the risk of incident dementia: The Italian longitudinal study on aging July 2, 2019Frailty is a critical intermediate status of the aging process including physical, cognitive, and psychosocial domains/phenotypes. We operationalized a new biopsychosocial frailty (BF) construct, estimating its impact on the risk of incident dementia and its subtypes.
- Reserve and Alzheimer's disease genetic risk: Effects on hospitalization and mortality July 1, 2019Cognitive reserve predicts delayed diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and faster postdiagnosis decline. The net impact of cognitive reserve, combining both prediagnosis and postdiagnosis risk, on adverse AD-related outcomes is unknown. We adopted a novel approach, using AD genetic risk scores (AD-GRS), to evaluate this.
- Individualized atrophy scores predict dementia onset in familial frontotemporal lobar degeneration July 1, 2019Some models of therapy for neurodegenerative diseases envision starting treatment before symptoms develop. Demonstrating that such treatments are effective requires accurate knowledge of when symptoms would have started without treatment. Familial frontotemporal lobar degeneration offers a unique opportunity to develop predictors of symptom onset.
- Alzheimer's Association Update July 1, 2019Researchers have long known that people with Down syndrome (DS) are at increased risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Over the last several decades, the number of people with AD and DS (AD-DS) has grown dramatically as life expectancy has expanded across populations. This phenomenon raises questions and opportunities that were discussed in depth at the […]