Dr. Peter Whitehouse will transform the way we think about Alzheimer’s disease.  In this provocative and ground-breaking book he challenges the conventional wisdom about memory loss and cognitive impairment; questions the current treatment for Alzheimer’s disease; and provides a new approach to understanding and rethinking everything we thought we knew about brain aging.The Myth of [...]

An inspirational tale of one family’s love, devotion and faith When I arrived, I approached the figure in the wheelchair. I asked him who I was but my father-in-law did not recognize me. When I tried to help him, he became angry and violent. He tried to get out of his wheelchair and away from [...]

From a world-renowned neurologist, the first book to feature a scientifically substantiated program for the only treatment for Alzheimer’s: PREVENTION Alzheimer’s is a devastating and frightening disease, and as baby boomers age it’s on the brink of becoming the great epidemic of the twenty-first century. Fortunately, by making proper lifestyle choices and avoiding certain risk [...]

Alzheimer, The Opera, premiering today in Amsterdam This sell-out opera was written by our other neighbour Dr Bert Keizer. Some people are not very happy about having an opera written about Alzheimer’s, but very many people have to deal with the issue and it is a (growing) part of our western culture. Image by CharlesFred [...]

Studying Alzheimer’s disease at the APS Mark Davidson (left), University of Florida, and Joanna Collingwood, Keele University, United Kingdom (UK), who is supported by a UK Alzheimer’s Society Research Fellowship and Dunhill Medical Trust), align a sample of Alzheimer’s brain tissue at the Advanced Photon Source microfocus facility, MR-CAT, beamline 10-ID. The Advanced Photon Source, [...]

Is it true that eating things on aluminum repeatedly will give you alzheimers? I think I heard at one point that aluminum can give you alzheimers, like drinking soda from aluminum cans, or eating food that had been cooked in aluminum pots or that had been lying around in tin foil or aluminum cans ( [...]

Why do so many white people get alzheimers? Im native american and we dont get alzheimers when we get old. I think its a white person disease. Best answer: Answer by *~FaItH rOcKs KeEp iT~*I read an article saying that eating curry may be the answer to alzheimers and well white people don’t eat curry [...]

How can I tell if my grandmother has Alzheimer’s disease? My grandmother is 94 years old and healthy, in general. Lately she has been having difficulty in reading the time. A few days ago she started seeing things that weren’t there (she’s had cataract and glaucoma for years), and she couldn’t remember recent facts. I [...]

PET scan of an healthy brain compared to a brain at an early stage of Alzheimer’s disease. The figure shows MRI, and typical [18F]FDG images from a healthy volunteer and a Alzheimer Disease (AD) patient. The color scale express the rate of glucose utilization (from minimum to maximum). In these PET (Positron Emission Tomography) images [...]

Oak Brook, IL (Vocus) June 24, 2008 An automated system for measuring brain tissue with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can help physicians more accurately diagnose Alzheimer’s disease at an earlier stage according to a new study published in the July issue of the journal Radiology. In Alzheimer’s disease, nerve cell death [...]