Individualized and Team-Driven Care Can Improve Symptoms of Schizophrenia
A 2015 study in the American Journal of Psychiatry provided exciting evidence of a novel treatment’s effectiveness in treating schizophrenia. The new treatment ...
Month: October 2016
Forgetting a Lifetime: The Alzheimer’s Problem
Have you ever forgot why you walked into a room, or where you placed your car keys? Can you imagine if you began to forget everything you know? This idea may se...
Food for Thought: Could Healthier Eating Decrease the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease?
With the introduction of pizza vending machines and more fast food restaurants in a community than schools, obesity in the US has become an epidemic of sorts. A...
Could Air Pollution Be Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease?
Hypothesizing about the environmental triggers of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) can quickly lead down a proverbial rabbit hole. Such a discussion occurred l...
Alzheimer’s Disease and Insulin
Let’s be honest: eating healthy is difficult. It takes time, money, and quite a bit of determination. Still, diet has long term effects on our body and mind. Th...
Alzheimer’s Disease: Do You Already Have It?
Alzheimer’s Disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive memory loss, cognitive decline, and eventual impairment in daily living tasks. ...
Risk Factors of Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s is the most common type of dementia and the sixth leading cause of death. The disease is characterized by mental deterioration that affects the memo...
A New Focus for Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment: Tau Protein
Alzheimer’s is the only disease among the top 10 causes of death in America that cannot be prevented, cured or even slowed. Current treatments have varying effe...
Common Misconceptions of Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by gradual memory loss, which can eventually lead to the impairment of simple every day tasks for an individual....
What’s the Deal With Alzheimer’s?
Your brain is your most powerful organ, yet weighs only about three pounds. It has a texture similar to firm jelly. It uses 20% of the total oxygen in your body...