Rethinking Alzheimer’s: What the Future of Treatment Might Look Like
Alzheimer’s is a brain disorder that slowly damages memory and thinking. An affected brain has Amyloid-beta plaques that build up between brain cells as well as...
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When Tau Twists: Understanding Neurofibrillary Tangles in Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurofibrillary Tangles: One of the most common neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), is a form of dementia charac...
Repetition is Not the Answer: The Danger of Multiple Concussions
Underlying Physiology There are many underlying physiological functions involved in concussions. Increased amounts of calcium and sodium ions enter cells in the...
Alzheimer’s Prevention: Can Lifestyle Changes Make a Difference
Alzheimer’s is a neurodegenerative disease that falls under the broader category of dementia. Symptoms include impaired cognitive function, changes in behavior,...
P13K and Alzheimers disease: The Domino Effect
The Domino Effect: Alzheimer’s disease follows a pathogenesis that includes a cascade of inflammation, synaptic dysfunction, and hyper-phosphorylation of ...
Knowledge is Power OR Ignorance is Bliss?
We’ve all seen the popular headlines: Breaking News, Alzheimer’s Disease is Now Type III Diabetes! But what does the research actually say? Here is what we do ...
“Is It Forgetfulness or Is It Something Else?”
Before working with older people, I personally never understood how much impact a disease like Alzheimer’s disease (AD) had on a patient. Being a type of dement...
Preventing Insulin Resistance in Alzheimer’s Through Diet
Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease that causes difficultly with cognitive function, behavior, and day-to-day life functioning and it effects ove...
Lifestyle factors can impact brain health
Alzheimer’s disease: New research keeps shedding light on Alzheimer’s Disease prevention and treatment. New studies have linked Diabetes Mellitus Type II...
Forgetting to Live Healthy
Introducing the problem As advanced as modern medicine is, there are still anomalies which have the scientific community confused. Increasingly Alzheimer’s dise...