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A brain in Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in industrialized nations. Dementia is a...

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Is an Alzheimer's vaccine a real possibility?

CurfewX

Researchers in New Mexico have started trials on a vaccine that they hope can prevent Alzheimer's disease. It's only in animal trials fo...

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dehydration

gfella

hi how long does it take to become severly dehydrated with a person with azheimers does it take days, weeks or can it happen in hours,and...

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MLA Scale

Karismatico

My father has done a brain MRI. The report says he possibily has a slight atrophy of mesial temporal lobe - grade 2 of MLA scale schelte...

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Trouble at night asking when we can go to bed.

Sunrise33351

My spouse is 70 and has what I feel stage 6 as hes shadowing and afraid to be alone even in our house that we lived in over 30 years and ...

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vascular dementia: sudden "sleep" possible?

paolettimoira

Sorry for my english....my father is in hospital due to abuse of psyco-medicines in the rest house he was living in. Now he is phisically...

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