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Alzheimer’s disease and the importance of sleep

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  By Kevin Woo, Alzheimer’s Speaks | May 4, 2013 What time are you going to bed tonight? The answer probably will depend on a number of things you have to do before bedtime: clean up around the house, answer some emails, or maybe prepare for that big meeting in the morning. By the time

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The importance of donating your brain to science

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By Kevin Woo, Alzheimer’s Speaks | May 1, 2013 Millions of people across the country have checked the “organ donor” box in their driver’s license. Although we don’t like to think about it, should something happen, our vital organs will be harvested and given to an organ recipient.  Some of the most commonly transplanted organs

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Brain food – you are what you eat

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By Kevin Woo, Alzheimer’s Speaks | April 25, 2013 There’s an old saying, “You are what you eat.” Dr. Neal Barnard and his family grew up eating typical Midwestern fare – meat-and-potatoes. He says that not so coincidentally many members of his family got Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia at a young age. Barnard

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Can a diabetes drug help Alzheimer’s patients?

On December 12, 2012 by

  By Kevin Woo | Special to Alzheimer’s Speaks December 12, 2012 Last year a drug known as AC253, which was intended to help diabetics, was pulled from clinical trials and never made it to market. But medical researchers at the University of Alberta have discovered that the same drug, AC253, could block the toxic

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Home Alone? Say Hello.

On December 11, 2012 by

By Kevin Woo | Special to Alzheimer’s Speaks December 11, 2012 How do you feel when you’re lonely?  Empty?  Depressed?  Isolated?  The Amsterdam Study of the Elderly recently concluded that of the 2,000 people who participated in a recent study, 64 percent had an increased risk of the disease if they felt alone. Dr. Tjalling

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Alzheimer’s disease living and research facility to open in 2014

On November 30, 2012 by

Abe’s Garden to open new assisted living and academic research facility in Nashville By Kevin Woo | Special to Alzheimer’s Speaks November 30, 2012 In 2014 the first assisted living facility dedicated to those with Alzheimer’s disease will open in Nashville, TN.  The facility, Abe’s Garden, will expand from a 120-bed independent and assisted living

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