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A New Treatment for Alzheimer's?

Neurologists urge caution upon reports of a successful therapy.A drug commonly used to treat arthritis caused a dramatic and rapid improvement in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, according to...

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Eyedrops that Probe the Brain

Gene probes deployed in eyedrops show brain damage in MRIs of mice.By dosing mice with eyedrops containing gene probes that then travel to the brain, Harvard researchers are using magnetic resonance...

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A New Approach to Treating Alzheimer's

Electrodes implanted in the brain show promise in early trials.Earlier this year, neurosurgeon Andres Lozano published a startling finding. He was testing deep-brain stimulation, in which electrical...

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Detecting Alzheimer's Disease

A blood test that identifies the disorder in its early stages could soon be made available to researchers.Alzheimer’s disease begins to damage the brain years before the first symptoms appear....

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Drugs to Grow Your Brain

Compounds that trigger the growth of new brain cells might help treat depression.Drugs that encourage the growth of new neurons in the brain are now headed for clinical trials. The drugs, which have...

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New Ways to Boost Memory

Enhancing neuron gene expression may improve memory.Scientists are developing new ways to selectively boost gene expression in the brain, in the hope of treating psychiatric and neurological disease. A...

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Wireless Detectors for Dementia

Researchers hope that radio transmitters can warn of cognitive decline earlier.Researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) have developed a wireless network that evaluates walking patterns in...

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Dementia: The Self-Portraits of William Utermohlen

When he learned in 1995 that he had Alzheimer’s disease, William Utermohlen, an American artist living in London, immediately began work on an ambitious series of self-portraits.About the art work:...

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Brain Pacemaker Tested on Alzheimer’s Patients

In an experimental trial, surgeons have implanted deep-brain stimulators into U.S. and Canadian Alzheimer’s patients.Last month, surgeons at Johns Hopkins implanted a pacemaker-like device into the...

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How to Make a Cognitive Neuroprosthetic

Enhancing the flow of information through the brain could be crucial to making neuroprosthetics practical.The abilities to learn, remember, evaluate, and decide are central to who we are and how we...

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Startup Finds Hope in Second Look at “Failed” Alzheimer’s Drugs

A startup will sift through “treasure troves” of data from failed trials to find abandoned Alzheimer’s drugs that might work for some patients.A new startup hopes to spin drug candidate straw into...

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