The Hardest Test: Tucson family has hereditary Alzheimer’s (Links to an external site)
Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer’s Network-Trials Unit on PBS (Links to an external site)
Brian and Amelia Cottle’s story: Living with early onset Alzheimer’s disease (Links to an external site)
Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network Trial Completes Participant Enrollment for Two Drugs in Phase II/III Study of Amyloid Therapies (Links to an external site)
34-year-old woman travels to Wash U for Alzheimer’s trial (Links to an external site)
A devastating disease that can rob you of your memory has an Alabama woman traveling to Missouri for help. The mother of three is taking part in a ground breaking study led by Washington University. Carrie Richardson, a 34-year-old preschool teacher and mother of three is in the fight of her life.
First trial to stop Alzheimer’s before symptoms emerge (Links to an external site)
Most research into dementia is about finding treatments for people who are already affected by symptoms. But a trial is under way in London which aims to prevent Alzheimer’s in people at high risk, before they show any physical signs of the disease.
Family with history of rare Alzheimer’s gene hopes for a cure (Links to an external site)
Can knowing you and your family may get Alzheimer’s ever be positive? (Links to an external site)
At the University of Washington’s School of Medicine there is a computer database that states with certainty – albeit heavily encrypted – whether or not Sophie Leggett will develop a form of genetically inherited early onset Alzheimer’s disease. But she has chosen not to find out what it says.
Slipping Away (Links to an external site)
Alzheimer’s: Experimental drug offers hope to families with legacy of degenerative brain disease (Links to an external site)
Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2015: ADAD Family Conference (Links to an external site)
Families Affected by Early Alzheimer’s Seek Better Treatment (Links to an external site)
Younger Adults with Alzheimer’s are Key to Drug Research (Links to an external site)
Fast-Forwarding Treatment for Neurodegenerative Disorders (Links to an external site)
Researchers at the Leonard Wolfson Experimental Neurology Centre in London, UK, want to accelerate early-stage treatment trials for neurodegenerative disorders. Dara Mohammadi speaks to the investigators about the need to stimulate drug discovery.
Why a Woman in her 30s Decided to Find Out If She Will Get Alzheimer’s (Links to an external site)
Reason To Hope: Thank You (Video) (Links to an external site)
NHK Special: “Stop Alzheimer’s Disease!” won Takayanagi Prize (Links to an external site)
In a New Approach to Fighting Disease, Helpful Genetic Mutations Are Sought (Links to an external site)
New funding speeds identification of drugs to prevent Alzheimer’s (Links to an external site)
Reclaiming the future for those affected by Alzheimer’s (Links to an external site)
Over 150 people in Montgomery are set to gather this weekend to reclaim the future for the five millions Americans suffering from Alzheimer’s. For two women in the River Region, the disease has directly impacted their lives and they’re leading the fight for a cure.
Preventing Alzheimer’s (Links to an external site)
Finding ways to diagnose and treat this devastating disease has frustrated scientists and clinicians ever since. Now the long and hard-fought campaign against Alzheimer’s has reached a potentially significant milestone: the launch of the first clinical trials to test whether new drug treatments given before dementia can prevent the disease.
Multicompany trials adapt to disciplines beyond cancer (Links to an external site)
Trials at Washington U. medical school offer hope for Alzheimer’s treatment (Links to an external site)
Unraveling Alzheimer’s mysteries in search of new treatment (Links to an external site)
Over the past several decades scientists have begun to unravel the complicated process that leads to the death of brain cells and, ultimately, the disease we call Alzheimer’s. That new understanding may lead to therapies that can halt the disease before symptoms appear and brains are irreparably damaged.
In Familial AD, Aß Production Up, Clearance Down (Links to an external site)
Researchers have long assumed that people with familial Alzheimer’s disease make too much Aβ42 in the brain, but they lacked proof. Now, in the June 12 Science Translational Medicine, researchers led by Randall Bateman at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, provide the first direct evidence.
Innovations: Alzheimer’s Disease: New Hope in Scientific Studies (Links to an external site)
Could there possibly be a cure for Alzheimer’s disease in the future? Through the current DIAN Network Study and Drug Trials headquartered at Washington University in St. Louis, early detection and prevention could become a reality. Dr. Randall Bateman, Charles F. and Joanne Knight Distinguished Professor in Neurology Washington University School of Medicine in St. […]
Study to find possible Alzheimer’s breakthrough (Links to an external site)
The urgent need for better treatment of Alzheimer ‘s disease and other kinds of dementia was highlighted this past week with a report that said dementia cost this country as much as $215 billion a year. well, now there is a fascinating study going on involving some new drugs that might prevent Alzheimer ‘s. we […]
Washington University Researchers Hope Drug Cures Alzheimer’s Disease (Links to an external site)
Very few people carry that mutation, but enough have it for Washington University researchers to test three drugs that could offer hope for them, and the larger search for a cure.
Investigational drugs chosen for major Alzheimer’s prevention trial (Links to an external site)
Stopping Alzheimer’s Before It Starts (Links to an external site)
Three new clinical trials expected to begin next year will attempt to prevent dementia by treating people at risk for the disease before they develop symptoms.