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Vote! Health Care Utilization and Costs Among Patients With AD With and Without Dysphagia
MedWorm/Alzheimer's (Today) - Conclusions: This study suggests that patients with AD and dysphagia have higher health care utilization...
Vote! Discovery of Anti-Alzheimer Agents: Current Ligand-Based Approaches toward the Design of Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors.
MedWorm/HairLoss (Today) - Authors: Speck-Planche A, Luan F, Cordeiro MN Abstract Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder...
Vote! Genotype patterns at PICALM, CR1, BIN1, CLU, and APOE genes are associated with episodic memory
MedWorm/Alzheimer's (Yesterday) - Conclusions: MLGPs provide an alternative analytical approach to predict an individual's genetic risk for episodic...
Vote! Short-term clinical outcomes for stages of NIA-AA preclinical Alzheimer disease
MedWorm/Alzheimer's (Yesterday) - Conclusions: Despite the short follow-up period, our operationalization of the new preclinical AD recommendations confirmed...
Vote! CSF biomarkers for Alzheimer disease correlate with cortical brain biopsy findings
MedWorm/Alzheimer's (Yesterday) - Conclusions: Amyloid plaques and hyperphosphorylated tau in cortical brain biopsies are reflected by low CSF...
Vote! Depression subtypes and 5‐year risk of dementia and Alzheimer disease in patients aged 70 years
MedWorm/Depression (Yesterday) - ConclusionsLate‐onset depressive episodes with DEDS are risk factors for dementia and AD development, regardless of...
Vote! Life's best lessons often emerge during caregiving role
MayoClinic/Alzheimers (2 days ago) - When mom gets Alzheimer's, it changes a child's role. And often life's greatest lessons can...
Vote! Locus‐specific mutation databases for neurodegenerative brain diseases
MedWorm/Alzheimer's (3 days ago) - AbstractThe AD&FTD and PD Mutation Databases make available curated information of sequence variations in genes...
Vote! Structure/Amyloid Fibril-forming Kinetics of Peptide A{beta}1-42 [Molecular Bases of Disease]
MW/WeightLoss (3 days ago) - Amyloid fibril formation is associated with a number of debilitating systemic and neurodegenerative diseases. One...
Vote! Radioactive agent approved as part of Alzheimer disease workup.
MedWorm/WomensHealth (7 days ago) - Authors: Thompson CA PMID: 22555074 [PubMed - in process] (Source: American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy...
Vote! Effect of Purpose in Life on the Relation Between Alzheimer Disease Pathologic Changes on Cognitive Function in Advanced Age [Original Article]
MedWorm/Alzheimer's (Tuesday, 8 May) - Conclusion Higher levels of purpose in life reduce the deleterious effects of AD pathologic changes...
Vote! Midlife vs Late-Life Depressive Symptoms and Risk of Dementia: Differential Effects for Alzheimer Disease and Vascular Dementia [Original Article]
MedWorm/Alzheimer's (Tuesday, 8 May) - Conclusions Depressive symptoms in midlife or in late life are associated with an increased risk...
Vote! Inhibitory Mechanism of Caspase-6 Phosphorylation [Protein Structure and Folding]
MedWorm/Alzheimer's (Saturday, 5 May) - The apoptotic effector caspase-6 (CASP6) has been clearly identified as a drug target due to...
Vote! Does the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination‐revised add to the Mini‐Mental State Examination in established Alzheimer disease? Results from a national dementia research register
MedWorm/Alzheimer's (Saturday, 5 May) - ConclusionsThe ACE‐R and MMSE total scores are highly correlated. In this clinical sample of people...
Vote! Neuroprotection by ApoE3 [Molecular Bases of Disease]
MW/WeightLoss (Saturday, 5 May) - Synaptic loss is the earliest pathological change in Alzheimer disease (AD) and is the pathological...
Vote! Fecal Corticosterone Levels in RCAN1 Mutant Mice.
MedWorm/Alzheimer's (Thursday, 3 May) - Authors: Rakowski-Anderson T, Wong H, Rothermel B, Cain P, Lavilla C, Pullium JK, Hoeffer C...
Vote! A new investigation for some steroidal derivatives as anti-Alzheimer agents.
MedWorm/Alzheimer's (Wednesday, 2 May) - Authors: Abdalla MM, Al-Omar MA, Al-Salahi RA, Amr AG Abstract We herein report the anti-Alzheimer...
Vote! Dementia in Documentary Film: Mum by Adelheid Roosen.
MedWorm/Alzheimer's (Wednesday, 2 May) - This article draws attention to the fact that documentaries do not simply reproduce the reality...