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Alzheimer’s Disease Defined

A neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive memory loss and severe dementia in advanced cases. Alzheimer’s disease is associated with certain abnormalities in brain tissue, involving a particular protein, beta-amyloid. The gene encoding amyloid has been located and cloned from chromosome 21.

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Guidelines For The Diagnosis And Treatment Of Dementia

Published October 7, 2008, 4:10 am, Medical News Today

People with mild to moderate dementia are cared for largely by family physicians as well as the patient's own family, and management of care can be complex and challenging.

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Occasional Memory Loss Tied To Lower Brain Volume

Published October 7, 2008, 4:07 am, Medical News Today

People who occasionally forget an appointment or a friend's name may have a loss of brain volume, even though they don't have memory deficits on regular tests of memory or dementia, according to a study published in the October 7, 2008, issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

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Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Boost Your Memory

Published October 7, 2008, 3:54 am, Carteret County News-Times

(ARA) - Do you ever find yourself at the grocery store struggling to remember what you came for? Are you forgetting birthdays and lunch dates? If these situations sound familiar to you, you're not alone. Forgetfulness is one of the most common complaints of those in middle age and beyond.

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Walk for Memory: Participants take rain in stride

Published October 7, 2008, 3:27 am, Crookston Daily Times

When Lenore Anderson said at Saturday's Walk for Memory that tradition had once again held, she was referring to the fact that, for the second time in the event's two-year history in Crookston, it was cool and raining.

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Pratchett: 'End dementia stigma'

Published October 7, 2008, 3:12 am, ITV.com

Author Terry Pratchett is hoping to bring dementia "out of the shadows" in a new campaign which hopes to reduce the stigma surrounding the disease.

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Pratchett: 'End dementia stigma'

Published October 7, 2008, 3:05 am, ITN via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News

Author Terry Pratchett is hoping to bring dementia "out of the shadows" in a new campaign.

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Author Pratchett calls for end to dementia stigma

Published October 7, 2008, 2:02 am, Reuters

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Top-selling author Terry Pratchett called on Tuesday for greater awareness of Alzheimer's disease as a report found sufferers of the degenerative brain disorder were "plagued by a stigma" and shunned by society.

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Romantic heart beats beneath raunchy 'Choke'

Published October 7, 2008, 1:48 am, Tallahassee Democrat

Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell) is a flawed, vulgar lech of a man, but you can't accuse him of neglecting his mother.

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6 foods that ward off aging

Published October 7, 2008, 1:07 am, Belleville News-Democrat

There might not be a fountain of youth, but there might be a pantry of youth. People who stock up on the right foods can turn back the clock, according to Karen Ansel, a dietitian and author of "The Anti-Aging Diet" story in last month's Family Circle.

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Published October 7, 2008, 1:01 am, The Journal News

Bill Harris of Pearl River, who died Sunday, made his living moving earth with heavy equipment, but he became an icon my touching the hearts of his community.

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  • Terry Pratchett video: Best selling author Terry Pratchett OBE talks about his diagnosis of Posterior Cortical Atrophy, a rare variant of Alzheimer' ;s Disease, the impact it has had on his life and his hopes for the future in a series of four videos:

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  • Alzheimer : treatment or potential prevention: The risk of developing this degenerative brain disorder steadily increases with age. It significantly impairs only three percent of the population at age 65, but affects nearly half the population by age 85.

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