Being Happy With Alzheimer’s
My grandmother had Alzheimer’s disease for as long as I remember being around her—we lived overseas so I really only saw her for two months out of the year (so ...
Tag: alzheimer’s disease
Clearance of Beta-Amyloid Plaques in Alzheimer’s Disease: The Key to the Cure?
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a very debilitating disease that destroys memory and other proper cognitive functions. It can be really hard on families and friends...
Could Diabetes lead to Alzheimer's Disease?
In the world of medicine, Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) a hot topic in the recent decades. With it affecting over 90,000 Americans annually, the prevalence of ...
Diabetes and Alzheimer’s: Eating Healthy Results in More Than Just Weight Loss
In Neurochemistry class, we talked about Alzheimer’s Disease, which is one of the most detrimental disorders that someone can experience. We talked about how t...
Good News for Meredith Grey? An Investigation into the Mechanisms of Alzheimer’s Disease
For all of the Grey’s Anatomy fans out there, in season 9 we discover that Meredith does in fact carry the gene for Alzheimer’s—inherited from her mother. The d...
Alzheimer's disease and insulin resistance
Research into the molecular nature of Alzheimer’s Disease has been a major focus the past 20 years, with (AD) claiming about 90,000 Americans annually. With gen...
The Role of Nitric Oxide in Alzheimer's Disease
To be honest, I did not know much about Nitric Oxide (NO) before reading the scientific paper on the topic for our neurochemistry class. All I could have told ...
More than just a treatment: Insulin
What is insulin? Insulin is almost always associated with diabetes as a treatment, but is that really the only function? Insulin is a hormone that is made in th...
Oh NO! Nitric Oxide and Neurodegenerative Disorders
Nitric Oxide is a free radical produced by glial cells in the brain as an immune response to infection. It falls into the category of reactive nitrogen species ...
Parkinson's Not Just a Tremor
Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s effecting about 3 in 1000 people in industrialized nations. It seems t...