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Original content Bob DeMarco, the Alzheimer's Reading Room
Predicting the Rate of Decline In Alzheimer's Dementia Patients
Readers often ask, what stage of Alzheimer's is s/he in, and how will the Alzheimer's disease progress?.....By Bob DeMarco
I think most Alzheimer's caregivers wonder about how Alzheimer's disease will progress in their loved one. Do you?
As far as I know there is no answer to this question.
I know I wake up wondering every single day if this will be the day my mother takes a big down turn in her cognitive health. Some days I think she is worse than others. I often think on a real bad day, this is it. But somehow she bounces back the next day.
Ten Symptoms of Alzheimer's
Doctors are not good at diagnosing Alzheimer's and neither are spouses or children.....By Bob DeMarco
The Caregiver
I would like to use the period from Mother's Day through Father's Day to try and spread the word about the symptoms of the early stages of Alzheimer's -- How to Spot Alzheimer's Early.
Most of the Alzheimer's caregivers I know can look back and identify symptoms and behaviors that they now know were early signs of dementia.
One of the things that caregivers learn is that the sooner that Alzheimer's is diagnosed the better the potential outcome. A failure to spot Alzheimer's early can be disastrous.
We have about ten people on this list that were fortunate and were put on the combination of Aricept and Namenda at the time of their diagnosis. All of these persons seem to be functioning quite well.
I am certain that there are exceptions to this experience. Nothing that is currently available as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease is perfect. Sometimes drugs like Aricept and Namenda don't work at all. This does not mean that they shouldn't be investigated and tried.
Discovery suggests new ways to treat Alzheimer's cause, not just symptoms
For some time, scientists have blamed Alzheimer's disease on a small molecule called amyloid beta protein (A beta) that leaves large gummy deposits in the brain. Recent studies suggest that these A beta proteins stick together to form floating toxic clumps that kill brain cells. Now, UCLA scientists have identified a tiny loop in A beta as the likely culprit behind the adhesion process. The UCLA team discovered that gene mutations in A beta increase the loop's flexibility, enabling it to join easily with loops from other A beta proteins and form clumps. The loop also appears in the region of the protein that regulates how — and how much — A beta is made. Principal investigator David Teplow, professor of neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, is available for interviews. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published the findings in its Oct. 10 online early edition. For a PDF of the study, see www.eurekalert.org/pio/tipsheetdoc.php/237/zpq7481.pdf.
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