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Health News and Information - News Medical

	August 10, 2018
	Alzheimer's Disease
	The latest Alzheimer's disease news from News Medical

Inflammation and Alzheimer's Disease

Alzheimer’s disease remains the leading cause of dementia worldwide. Mounting evidence now suggests that the body’s inflammatory responses may play a significant role in the development of Alzheimer’s, and that these pathways could be targeted in its treatment.

			How soon is soon enough to learn you have Alzheimer’s? Jose Belardo of Lansing, Kan., spent most of his career in the U.S. Public Health Service. He worked on the front lines of disasters in such places as Haiti, Colombia, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. At home with his three kids and wife, Elaine, he’d always been unfailingly reliable, so when he forgot their wedding anniversary two years in a row, they both started to worry.

			Simple pH imbalance could be a root of Alzheimer’s disease, mouse study shows Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have found new evidence in lab-grown mouse brain cells, called astrocytes, that one root of Alzheimer's disease may be a simple imbalance in acid-alkaline-;or pH-;chemistry inside endosomes, the nutrient and chemical cargo shuttles in cells.

	Novel discovery offers hope for treatment of Alzheimer's and other neurological diseases There is new hope for the treatment of Alzheimer's and other neurological diseases following a ground-breaking discovery made by an Australian-Chinese research collaboration.

	New method to construct brain networks improves accuracy of diagnosing Alzheimer's disease Researchers have developed a new method for constructing personal brain networks using multiple structural features to improve the accuracy of diagnosing Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

	Alzheimer’s disease greater in females, researchers speculate This week, at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in Chicago, a group of researchers presented reserch findings on the gender differences in Alzheimer’s causation. They speculated that women might be getting Alzheimer’s and dementia more commonly than men and the reason behind this has not been clearly understood. Estrogen or the female hormone could be the key, the researchers state.

	New proteomics studies help gain more insights into Alzheimer's, cancer and listeriosis The brains of people with Alzheimer's disease contain many protein aggregates outside of cells, known as plaques. These are mainly made of the peptide amyloid-beta, which is released from the plasma membrane when the protease BACE1 cleaves its membrane-anchored precursor protein.

	Woman's pregnancy history may be linked to Alzheimer's disease risk A woman's history of pregnancy may affect her risk of Alzheimer's disease decades later, according to a study published in the July 18, 2018, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

	Study finds link between degenerative eye conditions and Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease is difficult to diagnose as well as treat, but researchers now have a promising new screening tool using the window to the brain: the eye.

	Mixed Dementia Symptoms and Diagnosis Mixed dementia, also known as multifactorial dementia or “Dementia-multifactorial”, represents a neurological condition characterized by simultaneous presence of more than one type of dementia.