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Blacks, Hispanics More Likely To Dismiss Symptoms Of Alzheimer's Disease, Survey Finds

Posted by krisgocela 664 days ago Category: Psychiatry

Almost 70% of black and Hispanic families who have relatives with Alzheimer's disease dismiss their symptoms as part of aging, compared with about half of non-Hispanic whites, according to a survey released on Wednesday by the Alzheimer's Foundation of America, the Miami Herald reports. The telepho... read more »
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Methylation Of PP2A And Tau/APP Phosphorylation

Posted by krisgocela 664 days ago Category: Psychiatry

Estelle Sontag, Viyada Nunbhakdi- Craig, Jean-Marie Sontag, Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, Egon Ogris, Sanjana Dayal, Steven R. Lentz, Erland Arning, and Teodoro BottiglieriElevated plasma levels of homocysteine are a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. Because high homocysteine levels can inhibit methyltran... read more »
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Potential New Depression Treatment From Study Of Stress And Nerve Cells Survival In Rats

Posted by srrpenna 664 days ago Category: Psychiatry

A single, socially stressful situation can kill off new nerve cells in the brain region that processes learning, memory, and emotion, and possibly contribute to depression, new animal research shows.Researchers found that in young rats, the stress of encountering aggressive, older rats did not stop ... read more »
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Toward A Test For Childhood Detection Of Risk Of Bipolar Disorder And Schizophrenia

Posted by sreeram 664 days ago Category: Psychiatry

A team from Centre de recherche Université Laval Robert-Giffard (CRULRG) has made significant progress toward finding a way to determine whether a child is likely to one day suffer from bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. The findings of the research team supervised by Dr. [click link for full artic... read more »
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Misperceptions About Alzheimer's Among African-American And Hispanic Caregivers

Posted by krisgocela 663 days ago Category: Psychiatry

African-American and Hispanic caregivers (1) of people with Alzheimer's disease are significantly more likely than caregivers of other races to consider the disease a normal part of the aging process and dismiss its symptoms as part of getting older, according to the Alzheimer's Foundation of Americ... read more »
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Modern Imaging For Detecting Alzheimer And Dementia Fight Against Cognitive Decline: 3D Technology Promotes Early Detection / ECR 2007

Posted by krisgocela 663 days ago Category: Psychiatry

The older people become, the greater risk they have of sharing the tragic fate of those who remain alive yet are increasingly unaware of the world around them. In industrialised countries, one to six percent of the population over the age of 65 and an even more alarming ten to twenty percent over th... read more »
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Bipolar Disorder: Understudied And Much More Common Than Previously Reported

Posted by sreeram 663 days ago Category: Psychiatry

Despite a prevalence of about 5% in the community and 50% in depressed outpatients, the treatment of bipolar II disorder* and related disorders is understudied. Recent advances in this area, which have mainly been related to these conditions, are discussed in a Seminar in The Lancet. [click link for... read more »
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Avid Announces Results Of Av-1 Molecular Imaging Agent For Alzheimer's Disease Presented At AD/PD Meeting

Posted by krisgocela 662 days ago Category: Psychiatry

Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Inc. (Avid), a product-focused molecular imaging company, today announced the presentation of the first results from a clinical study of 18F-AV-1/ZK (AV-1) a novel radiopharmaceutical for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of amyloid plaques in patients with Alzhei... read more »
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Depressed Mothers Can Still Be Good Moms

Posted by srrpenna 661 days ago Category: Psychiatry

Medically treating post-partum depression may not be enough to improve a mother's relationship with her baby, and is only part of the equation, according to a new study done in part by the University of Alberta.The other essential factor is giving struggling new mothers basic tools to read behaviour... read more »
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