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A fascinating peek at the descent into Alzheimer’s
When he learned in 1995 that he had Alzheimer’s disease, William Utermohlen, an American artist based in London, began his final project -- drawing self-portraits during his descent into dementia and ultimately Alzheimer's. This NY Times article reports that Utermohlen's...
Diet and Alzheimer's
A new Annals of Neurology study headed by Nikolaos Scarmeas of the Columbia University Medical Center in New York has found that people who followed a Mediterranean-style diet were up to 40% less likely than those who largely avoided it...
New study links Alzheimer's to diabetes
A new Brown University Medical School study published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease supports a growing body of clinical evidence indicating that Alzheimer's may be a new form of diabetes. The study found that brain levels of insulin and...
Stop daydreaming!
According to this Washington Post article, now daydreaming may be hazardous to your health: The brain areas involved in daydreaming, musing and other stream-of-consciousness thoughts appear to be the same regions targeted by Alzheimer's disease, researchers are reporting today in...
The Disease of the Century
Colleen Carroll Campbell, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is the author of The New Faithful: Why Young Adults Are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy (Loyola, 2002). She is working on a book based on her father's experience of...
George Mitchell funds grant for UT Alzheimer's research
Longtime Houston oilman and real estate developer George Mitchell and his wife Cynthia have donated $2.5 million to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston to fund the creation of the George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for...
Promising new approach to treating Alzheimer's
This Wall Street Journal ($) article reports on a significant advancement for the next generation of Alzheimer's treatments, Neurochem Inc says it will begin recruiting patients for a large efficacy trial of its drug Alzhemed in the next few weeks....
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