Alzheimer's Disease

The Brain, Memory, and Alzheimer's Disease
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM) Alzheimer's Disease : The Complete Guide to Preventing, Treating, and Coping with Memory Loss (What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About...(Paperback))
by Deborah Mitchell, Gayatri Devi, M.D.
Perhaps the biggest mystery that faces humankind is not whether there is life on other planets or how the universe began, but exactly how the human brain works. I believe the human brain is the last frontier. What is thought? What is memory?

The Cortisol Connection
Brain Longevity: The Breakthrough Medical Program that Improves Your Mind and Memory
by Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., Cameron Stauth
He was afraid that he had early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, and feared that I would soon doom him with that diagnosis. He knew that if he did have Alzheimer's, conventional medicine could do little to help him.

A New Start: The Art of Friendship
A Dignified Life : The Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer's Care, A Guide for Family Caregivers
by Virginia Bell, MSW, David Troxel, MPH
Alzheimer's disease changes us all. Because of the associated memory loss and confusion, your mother, father, sister, brother, husband, wife, or partner may no longer know you or understand his or her relationship to you.

Alzheimer's Disease
Live Now, Age Later: Proven Ways to Slow Down the Clock
by Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D.
Any discussion of aging with someone older than fifty invariably makes them anxious about eventually losing their marbles. Most of the other devastating ailments of mankind, heart trouble, stroke, even AIDS - don't usually produce the kind of terror

Dr. Bob's Super Mind Power
Brain Fitness: Anti-Aging to Fight Alzheimer's Disease, Supercharge Your Memory, Sharpen Your Intelligence, De-Stress Your Mind, Control Mood Swings
by Robert Goldman, M.D.
We all want to be smarter and more alert, to require less sleep and better handle the stresses and strains that life throws our way. I have always been fascinated with how powerful the mind can make us feel and how far the inner self can be pushed.

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What's Happening to Grandpa?
by Maria Shriver
From New York Times bestselling author Maria Shriver comes a poignant and compassionate story about one family coping with Alzheimer's disease and memory loss. Kate has always adored her grandpa's storytelling-but lately he's been repeating the same

Alzheimer's Disease : Inside the Human Brain
by National Institute on Aging
The brain is a remarkable organ. Seemingly without any effort, it allows us to carry out every element of our daily lives. It manages many of the body functions that happen without our knowledge or direction, such as breathing, blood circulation

Understanding Alzheimer's Disease
by National Institute of Health
Alzheimer's disease is an illness of the brain. It causes large numbers of nerve cells in the brain to die. This affects your ability to remember things and think clearly. Doctors don't know what causes the disease.

Aging and Memory Loss : Alzheimer's disease, Multi-infarct dementia
by National Institute on Aging
Alzheimer's disease also causes serious memory problems. The signs of Alzheimer's disease begin slowly and get worse over time. This is because nerve cell changes in the brain cause large numbers of brain cells to die.

Caring for a Person with Alzheimer's Disease
by National Institute on Aging
Caring for a person with Alzheimer's disease at home is a difficult task. Basic activities of daily living - eating, talking, sleeping, finding things to do - are often hard to manage for both the person with Alzheimer's and the caregiver.

Understanding Alzheimer's Disease
by National Institute on Aging
Dementia is a brain disorder that seriously affects a person's ability to carry out daily activities. Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia among older people. It involves the parts of the brain that control thought, memory, and language

Forgetfulness or Alzheimer's?
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
While most people understand at least some of the horrifying aspects of Alzheimer's disease, DeKosky says a big challenge is educating people regarding the widely held assumption that people are supposed to have memory impairment as they age.

Multi-Infarct Dementia
by National Institute on Aging
Serious forgetfulness, mood swings, and other behavioral changes are not a normal part of aging. They may be caused by poor diet, lack of sleep, or too many medicines, for example. Feelings of loneliness, boredom, or depression also can cause forgetfulnes

Alzheimer's Disease : The Impact and Mystery
by National Institute on Aging
Alzheimer's is an irreversible, progressive brain disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, eventually even the ability to carry out the simplest tasks. Although the risk of developing AD increases with age - in most people with AD

Alzheimer's : Delaying the Disease, Anti-inflammatory Drugs, Antioxidants
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Some studies hint that a variety of existing drugs and supplements may be useful in delaying AD or stopping its progression. These studies are preliminary, and their findings would need to be demonstrated in adequately designed and conducted studies

Alzheimer's : Diagnosing and Treating the Symptoms and the Disease
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
There is no cure for AD, but there are drugs to treat some of the symptoms. The Food and Drug Administration has approved four prescription drugs for people with mild-to-moderate AD: Cognex (tacrine), Aricept (donepezil), Exelon (rivastigmine), and Reminy

Alzheimer's : New Drug Developmen, Risk Factors, Eluding Alzheimer's
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Scientists have isolated enzymes called secretases, which are thought to lead to the formation of beta-amyloid. Secretases are categorized as proteases, the same type of enzymes that are targeted by protease inhibitors to treat AIDS.

Alzheimer's: The Mysteries of Memory
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Alzheimer's disease, a progressive, degenerative disease attacking the brain and resulting in impaired thinking, behavior and memory, was first described by Alois Alzheimer, M.D., in 1906. German researchers recently found an important set of notes

Alzheimer's: A Disease of the Brain
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Health care costs for the roughly 4.5 million Americans with Alzheimer's disease (AD) exceed $100 billion a year, according to the Alzheimer's Association. As baby boomers age during the next few decades, the number of victims and the dollar costs of care

Alzheimer's: The Need for Answers, Taking Care
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Although no cure for Alzheimer's is available now, planning and medical/social management can help ease the burden on both patient and family members. Physical exercise, good nutrition, and social activities are important.