Whenever I ask a caregiver how they are doing, the first word is usually “tired.” They try to find a balance between work and life, but the demands of the job often get in the way. More importantly, caregivers don’t realize that tiredness is just one symptom related to a more insidious cause – stress. […]
Posted on February 5th, 2008 by Emme Levine
Filed under: AGIS, Caregiving, Health & Safety, Research | 2 Comments »
The Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University of Medicine have just devel-oped a new device to detect the cognitive loss associated with early stage Alzheimer’s disease. A simple 10 minute scan with the machine allows doctors to quickly assess the particular stage of the disease and prescribe treatments to delay and offset the […]
Posted on January 28th, 2008 by Mark Lindsey
Filed under: Alzheimer's, Research, Technology | No Comments »
An amazing new study, published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation, has documented improvement in the brain of a patient suffering from Alzheimer’s disease within minutes of administrating a therapeutic molecule.
The researches involved with the study hypothesized that the increased amount of TNF (tumor necrosis factor-alpha), a critical component of the brain’s immune system that finely […]
Posted on January 14th, 2008 by Tabitha Grace Smith
Filed under: Alzheimer's, Research, Technology | 6 Comments »
