See also:
Sites:
- Alzheimer Research Forum
- Has plenty of research information for both the professional and the patient.
- Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Search and Rescue Research
- Wandering is an important behavior common in Alzheimer's disease that make the disease so critical to the field of search and rescue. Excerpts from a book not yet completely written.
- Alzheimer's Disease Research
- Program to fund research and educate the public.
- Alzheimer's Research: National Institute on Aging
- Research news and press releases on AD research from the NIA.
- Alzheimer's Research Center
- Information about treatment and prevention of Alzheimer's disease and other dementing illnesses.
- Biological Markers for Alzheimer's Disease
- A doctoral thesis by Tero Tapiola.
- Expert BioMed Inc Biotechnology Alzheimer
- Private company for anti-Alzheimer's disease therapeutics.
- Geriatric Studies Center - Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
- AD, mild cognitive impairment, clinical trials, geriatric studies, and information on resources available to patients.
- Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center
- resource for the collection and distribution of human brain specimens for brain research into neurological disorders and psychiatric illnesses.
- Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia
- Includes information about the clinic, research and caregiver support.
- The Lost Alzheimer's and Related Disorders Search Subject: New Research & Perspectives
- Long article based on a search and rescue conference talk discusses the issue of people with dementia wandering away from their caregivers.
- The McCusker Foundation for Alzheimer's Disease Research
- To develop early diagnostic tests for Alzheimer's accelerate discovery of effective treatment - Univ. of Western Australia.
- A Molecular Genetic Study of Factors Involved in Alzheimer's Disease
- Doctoral thesis by Mikko Hiltunen, University of Kuopio.
- Molecular Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease
- Review of genteics.
- MRI of Hippocampus In Incipient Alzheimer's Disease
- Doctoral thesis by Mikko Laakso.
- National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center
- Facilitates collaborative research among the approximately 30 Alzheimer's Disease Centers funded by the National Institute of Aging.
- Stanford / VA Palo Alto Alzheimer's Research Center of California
- Offers support groups, clinical trials, sleep studies, dementia clinic FAQs, publications from staff members and contact information.
- Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain
- Sponsored by the U.S. National Institute on Aging, facilitating research and educational programs relating to Alzheimer's Disease and other age-related neurodegenerative diseases.
- University of Washington Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
- Information for researchers, health care providers and families.
- Yale Alzheimer’s Disease Research Unit
- Conducts clinical research in the treatment, neuroimaging, and genetics of Alzheimer's disease and healthy aging.
- BBC: Loneliness link with Alzheimer's
- People who are lonely are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's disease, a large US study has suggested.
- BBC: Alzheimer's vaccine 'in a patch'
- A patch to deliver a vaccine against Alzheimer's disease has been shown to be safe.
- BBC: Gene 'increases Alzheimer's risk'
- People born with a certain gene may have a greater risk of developing Alzheimer's, scientists say.
- BBC: Scan could spot early Alzheimer's
- Researchers developed a test which could lead to better treatments and faster diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
- BBC: Alzheimer's risk 'is 80% genetic'
- Genetic factors could determine up to 80% of a person's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, a study suggests.
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Last update: 1:24 PT, Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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