Five Genes Identified That May Cause Lewy Body Dementia
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Five Genes Identified That May Cause Lewy Body Dementia

According to a recent press release, scientists studying the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences' (USU) The American Genome Center (TAGC) identified five genes which could play a role…

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Study of the Week: Primary Progressive Aphasia Patients with Alzheimer’s Keep Their Memory
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Study of the Week: Primary Progressive Aphasia Patients with Alzheimer’s Keep Their Memory

Welcome to Study of the Week from Patient Worthy. In this segment, we select a study we posted about from the previous week that we think is of particular interest…

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Why The FDA Cautions Rare Neurological Disease Patients About Dental Amalgams

In a press release from the FDA; the FDA has new recommendations for a common mercury-based filling, dental amalgams. While the mercury in the tooth treatment isn't significant enough to…

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Baylor College Team Discovers the Origin of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency in Infants
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Baylor College Team Discovers the Origin of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency in Infants

  A recent article in Science News highlighted a discovery by Richard Seifes, M.D. of Baylor College of Medicine.  Dr. Seifes has discovered the origin of a liver disease that…

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First Patient with Alzheimer’s Dosed in Bryostatin-1 Clinical Trial
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First Patient with Alzheimer’s Dosed in Bryostatin-1 Clinical Trial

  Last week, clinical stage biopharmaceutical company Neurotrope announced that the first patient was dosed in a Phase 2 clinical trial to test the safety, efficacy, and tolerability of bryostatin-1…

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New Blood Test Improves Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis
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New Blood Test Improves Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis

  A blood test that gives a more accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease was announced at the July 2020 International Conference of the Alzheimer’s Association. The Association estimates that approximately…

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Researchers’ Attention is Shifting to a New Theory About Alzheimer’s Disease
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Researchers’ Attention is Shifting to a New Theory About Alzheimer’s Disease

  According to a recent article in BioSpace, Biogen and Eisai have launched a new preclinical Phase III trial of BAN2401 to treat pre-clinical Alzheimer's disease. The new study follows…

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Planned Phase 2 Trial of ANVS401 for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Moving Forward
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Planned Phase 2 Trial of ANVS401 for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Moving Forward

As reported in Parkinson's News Today, an investigational therapy to treat patients with Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson’s disease has had its Phase 2 trial approved by the central institutional review…

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Biomarkers in Alzheimer’s Give Researchers a Heads Up to Predict Early Parkinson’s Disease
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Biomarkers in Alzheimer’s Give Researchers a Heads Up to Predict Early Parkinson’s Disease

  Parkinson’s News Today recently published an article containing new information about biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease that can be linked to the early stages of Parkinson’s disease. Many people with…

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Klotho Gene Variant Reduces Alzheimer’s Disease Risk in High-Risk Adults
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Klotho Gene Variant Reduces Alzheimer’s Disease Risk in High-Risk Adults

  According to MedPage Today, carriers of the gene variation APOE4 are much more at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. However, researchers found that one copy of the Klotho gene mutation,…

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Researchers Have Found an Early Sign of Alzheimer’s Disease in DNA Modification
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Researchers Have Found an Early Sign of Alzheimer’s Disease in DNA Modification

  In February 2020, Epigenetics published results of a study reporting that researchers have found an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease in DNA modification (methylation) that had been overlooked. Patients…

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Toxic Protein Identified: Closing in on Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases
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Toxic Protein Identified: Closing in on Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases

  For years scientists have tried to understand how and why tau, well known to researchers for its implication in Alzheimer’s disease, changes from its normal form to a harmful…

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Biogen to Relaunch its Alzheimer’s Drug with FDA Clearance in New Study
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Biogen to Relaunch its Alzheimer’s Drug with FDA Clearance in New Study

  According to an article in the Alzheimer’s publication Being Patient, participants who had been enrolled in the discontinued phase three trials of aducanumab will start receiving the drug as…

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A New University of Alabama Study Finds That Norepinephrine is the Missing Piece in the Alzheimer’s Puzzle
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A New University of Alabama Study Finds That Norepinephrine is the Missing Piece in the Alzheimer’s Puzzle

  It has been evident to scientists for years that Alzheimer’s disease, which affects about five million people in the U.S., is caused by an accumulation of two proteins within…

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Scientists are Ramping Up Their Attack on Alzheimer’s Disease Through Immunotherapy

In the early 1900s, German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer, while studying about the decline in brain function, recognized a correlation between behavioral changes and the buildup of tangles and plaques in…

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