Novel Brain Scan Technique Could Definitively Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease
What is Alzheimer’s Disease? Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that destroys ones memory and many other important...
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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...
A link between insulin and Alzheimer's and a breakthrough cure?
Although a direct “yes” or “no” answer on whether there is a link between insulin levels and neurodegenerative diseases is desired, it i...
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...
Humans are not Immortal
Biologically speaking, humans are not meant to live forever. People age for a variety of reasons; but a few of the main issues are the amount of free radicals ...
Mental Decline-A Societal Problem
Modern medicine is nothing short of a miracle. If you take a moment to stop and appreciate just how good we have become at not dying it is pretty mind blowing. ...
Type 3 Diabetes? The Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder diagnosed today. For a long time it was unclear as to the cause of AD, and t...
Alzheimer’s linked to Diabetes
The topic in our Neurochemistry class this past week was Alzheimer’s Disease and how it is linked to Type II Diabetes Mellitus, T2DM. The science behind this li...
Is it time to forget about finding a “cure” for Alzheimer’s disease?
In the last few years I’ve watched my grandmother sink into the mysterious depths of her Alzheimer’s disease. However, as she approaches 90 years old it is not ...
Insulin: impacting more than just diabetes
Those impacted by Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has reached an alarming number of 5 million individuals as of 2015 in the United States alone. AD has no cure, which ...