Researchers in Chicago have paired up with a local theater group to see how improvisational theater games affect the health and mood of patients with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. “Improv is all about being in the moment, which for someone with memory loss, that is a very safe place,” says one ... continue reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 11 (HealthDay News) — Symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease may be harder to detect in people over 80, according to a new study that examined the relationship between age-related brain shrinkage and Alzheimer’s-associated memory loss.
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A new blood test for Alzheimer’s disease is 96% accurate at identifying the disease and can perhaps detect it even before symptoms such as memory loss appear, says the test’s developer.
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Brain and blood chemistry changes indicative of Alzheimer’s disease can be detected 10 to 20 years before memory loss and other cognitive symptoms develop, according to doctors studying families with inherited forms of the disease.
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People who develop Alzheimer’s disease in middle age might be at risk of getting misdiagnosed, according to a new study published online Monday in the journal Neurology. That’s because many patients’ first symptoms don’t include the memory loss associated with the degenerative disease.
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