• Atypicals May Not Work in Older Patients

    Updated: 2012-11-27 22:00:00
    Atypical antipsychotics may not work in older patients, and they carry a high risk of adverse events, researchers found.

  • Alzheimer's Gene Linked to Other Dementias

    Updated: 2012-11-20 15:00:00
    A gene variant thought to play a role in the pathology of Alzheimer's disease is also associated with other forms of dementia, researchers reported.

  • Without a Treatment, Why Test for Alzheimer's?

    Updated: 2012-11-16 15:13:00
    , Pages Home About Videos Links ePrognosis Tweets Blogs to Boards Friday , November 16, 2012 Without a Treatment , Why Test for Alzheimer's The New York Times has a front page at least online story today about testing for Alzheimer's Dementia The story follows a 61 year old woman who has started to forget things . She undergoes testing for Alzheimer's and the test is floridly positive : she has the early stages of Alzheimer's . dementia The problem , as the article notes , is that treatments for Alzheimer's dementia are not effective . The test is about knowing for sure period . I'm interested to hear what other folks think about testing . We at GeriPal are obviously big proponents of estimating prognosis see ePrognosis but testing for Alzheimer's strikes me as both similar and different

  • Rare Mutation Triples Risk of Alzheimer's

    Updated: 2012-11-14 22:44:12
    A mutation found in about one in 200 Icelanders older than 85 raised the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease threefold, researchers said.

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