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Stories Tagged With Alzheimers

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Discovered: Indian spice reduces Alzheimer's symptoms by 30%

The disease is defined by freckles of barnacle-like piles of a protein fragment, amyloid beta, in the brain. So, the current thinking goes, if you block amyloid formation or get rid of amyloid accumulations — plaque — and if you start treatment before the disease is well under way, you might have a chance to alter its course.
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Can Cell Phones Help Fight Alzheimer's?

The study, involving mice, provides evidence that long-term exposure to electromagnetic waves associated with cell phone use may protect against, and even reverse, Alzheimer's disease. The study is published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.
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Dementia patients hate baby-talk, or "elderspeak"

When you talk to your senile grandparent next time, speak normally. New research shows that baby-talking to them annoys the hell out of them, and stay off their lawn! "When staff members spoke in elderspeak, the residents' resistance to care nearly doubled compared with when staff spoke normally. "
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Leahy subtly compares McCain's slip-ups to Alzheimers, Reagan

Leahy alludes to McCain's "referring to Russia's relationship [with] Czechoslovakia -- a country that hasn't existed for 15 years..." Is this fair game?
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