ALLMedicine™ Alzheimer Disease Center

Mar 21st, 2023 - Neurofibrillary tangles and plaques containing tau serve as the biological markers for Alzheimer disease (AD) and pathogenesis is widely believed to be driven by the production and deposition of the β-amyloid peptide (Aβ). The β-amyloid peptide (A...

Mar 19th, 2023 - Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) pathologies coexist in patients with cognitive impairment. Abnormal amyloid beta (Aβ) deposition is the hallmark pathologic biomarker for AD. Neuroinfl...

Mar 18th, 2023 - There has been a paucity of research examining the risk and cost of readmission among patients with Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD) after a planned hospitalization for a broad set of medical and surgical procedures. To examine 30-da...

Mar 17th, 2023 - Alzheimer Disease (AD) and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) are both characterized by amyloid-β (Aβ) accumulation in the brain, although Aβ deposits mostly in the brain parenchyma in AD and in the cerebrovasculature in CAA. The presence of CAA ca...

Mar 16th, 2023 - In order to increase engagement in physical activity, it is important to determine which factors contribute to physical activity engagement in older adults. The current study examined the relative predictive ability of several potential determinan...

Mar 8th, 2023 - Objective: Diet may reduce Alzheimer’s dementia risk and slow cognitive decline, but the understanding of the relevant neuropathologic mechanisms remains limited. The association of dietary patterns with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology has been...

May 7th, 2020 - Degenerative disease of the central nervous system is a growing public health concern. The primary role of neuroimaging in the workup of patients with probable or possible Alzheimer disease has typically been to exclude other significant intracran...

Mar 3rd, 2020 - Falls Risk and Alzheimer Disease: A Patient Guide.|2020|Kahya M,Sood P,Devos H,Krishnan S,Hirsch MA,|

Jul 3rd, 2013 - Amyloid PET imaging is a novel diagnostic test that can detect in living humans one of the two defining pathologic lesions of Alzheimer disease, amyloid-β deposition in the brain. The Amyloid Imaging Task Force of the Alzheimer's Association and S...

May 18th, 2011 - Alzheimer disease is the most common cause of dementia. It occurs worldwide and affects all ethnic groups. The incidence of Alzheimer disease is increasing due, in part, to increased life expectancy and the aging baby boomer generation. The averag...

Mar 8th, 2023 - Objective: Diet may reduce Alzheimer’s dementia risk and slow cognitive decline, but the understanding of the relevant neuropathologic mechanisms remains limited. The association of dietary patterns with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology has been...

Mar 8th, 2023 - Two-thirds of the US population, particularly African Americans (AA), is at risk for inadequate or deficient 25-hydroxy-vitamin D (25(OH)VD). Epidemiological studies demonstrate an association between better health outcomes and higher blood levels...

Mar 6th, 2023 - Overview: Participants will complete a baseline battery of self-report and cognitive measures before and after 12 weeks of weekly videoconferences and diaries of brain health-related activities completed during weeks 1, 6, and 12. They will be ran...

Mar 6th, 2023 - As very commonly used for objectifying Alzheimer Disease memory deficits, an adaptive selection of word choices are done for the use of free and cued selective reminding test (FCSRT) procedure in Turkish population. In this study the validity and ...

Mar 2nd, 2023 - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) for treatment of Alzheimer disease. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia and cognitive deteriorating in the advanced age. The current medical treatment of AD is mainly symptomatic and ha...

Mar 8th, 2023 - Objective: Diet may reduce Alzheimer’s dementia risk and slow cognitive decline, but the understanding of the relevant neuropathologic mechanisms remains limited. The association of dietary patterns with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology has been...

Mar 7th, 2023 - Last year, after a long delay due to COVID, my father’s ashes were finally laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. Among the loved ones who came was my favorite aunt, Tante Ilse, who was suffering from dementia.

Dec 14th, 2022 - Dementia is a devastating condition resulting in major functional, emotional, and financial impact on patients, their caregivers, and families. Approximately 6.

Nov 14th, 2022 - A core component of any type of therapeutic research is to enhance clinical benefit.In appropriately designed, comparative, randomized studies another goal is to determine the superiority or potential equivalence of one therapeutic strategy vs ano...

Nov 14th, 2022 - Black individuals showed an accelerated pattern of brain aging beginning in midlife, a cross-sectional analysis of two community-based cohorts showed. Brain aging -- the association of age with cortical thickness and white matter hyperintensity (W...