Accurate diagnosis for early onset of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is very important to get early proper action in the prevention or medications. However, the diagnosis often more likely to give a false result, because the symptoms given often does not related to memory problems, as memory loss always suggested to the ...

Compared with father who had Alzheimer's disease, the mother with Alzheimer's disease more likely to give their children for the late onset of Alzheimer's. This risk factors of Alzheimer's disease included for both of parents with no history of Alzheimer's disease. However, with the history of Alzheimer's disease, the risk become 4 ...

It is never too late to start exercising even to older adults to maintain and improve their health, especially to older adults that often had a risk for Alzheimer's disease in later life. This is because a new study found that routine aerobic exercise training that gets sedentary older adults up ...

Dementia with Lewy Body (DLB) is a type of dementia that may caused from share characteristic of Alzheimer's diseases and movement problems of Parkinson's disease's. An estimated around 10% of older adults had DLB. Regarding to cognitive impairment, it may also include visual hallucinations and spontaneous movement problems similar to those found ...

Cognitive impairment in late-life depression is a core feature of the illness, contributing to disability and impaired quality of life. As Donepezil drug can increase level of cortical acetylcholine (a neurotransmitter in peripheral nervous system and central nervous system) which were used in main therapeutic of Alzheimer's disease treatment, and previous ...

According to current authors of the study, the mild impairment effect raises the question of possibility for evolution towards neurogenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease or other dementias. The main reason for this study, according to the authors, because there is limited data for epidemiological between chronic pesticide exposure and neurobehavioral ...

It has been suggested that people with dementia are at increased risk for mortality, and the diagnosis of dementia definitely has a large impact on survival, which is roughly halves survival rate in older people. More evidence to support this literature has been showed from a new study by Michal Beeri, ...

In Western population, an abnormal amount of lipids such as cholesterol and/or fat in the blood (dyslipidemia) and late-onset Alzheimer's disease are common in older adults. However, it is unclear until now whether dyslipidemia increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease, despite several studies has been investigated this relationship. Due to this, a ...

Parkinson disease's drug of Pramipexole (marketed as Mirapex from Boehringer Ingelheim) which is also used for restless leg syndrome treatment has been shown its adverse effect due to triggering compulsive behavior, and many patients reported had suffered considerably from the presence of impulse control disorder. Pramipexole is a nonergoline dopamine ...

A new findings said that compared with Whites and those with higher socioeconomic, African American and those with lower socioeconomic had more severity and greater disability for their Parkinsons' disease. According to the study author, Lisa M. Shulman, MD, codirector of the University of Maryland Parkinson's Disease & Movement Disorders Center ...

In the analyzing between physical activity and brain structure of both healthy adults and those with cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease, the researchers found that walking might slow cognitive decline and slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease among people who already have it. All subjects in this ongoing 20-year study had ...

There are several literatures outhere regarding to the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids on the brain. A data from epidemiological studies showed that there was a relationship between omega-3 intake and reduced risk of dementia. Therefore, due to this, current researchers investigated to look at what docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) supplementation would ...

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) is one of favorite medical treatment for surgically menopausal, perimenopausal and to a lesser extent postmenopausal women. However, since the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) clinical trial report in 2002 that found HRT also increased the risk of breast cancer, coronary heart disease, strokes, pulmonary emboli, and one ...

Elderly people with mild cognitive impairment may take benefits from B-Vitamin supplement consumption to slow the rate of brain atrophy. This suggestion just published recently in September issue of PLos One from randomized trial results of high-dose B vitamin including B12, B6, and folic acid, were known as VITACOG. VITACOG was controlled ...

Particular awareness should be given to older age patients who develop Parkinson's disease or have symptoms suggestive of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD), cause it was independently signaled an increased risk for PD-associated psychosis (PDP) such as hallucinations or delusions during their illness which can be raise ...

In the 880 adults samples of the study results that published in August 9, 2010 of the Archives of Neurology, the researchers found that there is linear association between the change in plasma beta-amyloid (Aß) levels and cognitive to markers of cognitive decline and Alzeimer's disease risk factor. This study represent ...

Delirium or Acute Confusional State is a common and severe neuropsychiatric syndrome with core features of acute onset and fluctuating course, attentional deficit and generalized severe disorganization of behavior. Typically, it involves other cognitive deficit, change in arousal, perceptual deficit, altered sleep-wake cycle, and psychotic feature such as hallucination and ...

Managing the risk factor of cardiovascular is important due to possible complication with other organ functions. From recent study reported in August 2 in Circulation said that declining cardiac function is linked to lower total brain volume. The lead study authors, Angela Jefferson, PhD, from the Boston University School of Medicine in ...

Mostly, vitamin E is found in whole-grain foods, milk, eggs, nuts, avocado, seeds, spinach, and unheated vegetable oils. In the last study from Rotterdam found that higher dietary intakes of vitamins E and C were associated with a lower risk for dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Now, from current study as the long-term ...

Psychological and physical abuse from people with dementia are often happen to the family members who care for them. New study suggest that to less the impact, teaching the caring family members for how to cope this abusive behavior is needed. Published in June issue of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and ...

Previous research has found that poor and loss of left major component of the brains (hippocampus) volume, and low scores test of the sense of smell or sensory system (olfactory system), had correlation in patients with Alzheimer's disease as cognitive impairment predictor. However, no study for patients who are still congnitively ...

Accumulated latest estimation study around the world relate to both pre-hypertension and hypertension as following; - affect to 1 billion people both men and women, - 50% adult had high blood pressure with the aged above 60 years old. - lifetime prevalence about 90%. In addition, high blood pressure also may linked to increasing ...

As dementia characterized by widespread of loss nerve cells and the shrinkage of brain tissue, the Clarimind will increases the production of Acetylcholine (ACh, a transmitter substance in many neural or nerve) and supplies Monoterpene Hydrocarbons (a chemical classes of essential oil) that will recycles carbon and energy to connective ...

Many researchers, especially psychologist scientist agreed that the sense of purpose in life among elder people can give significant improvement to survive, especially elderly people with risk of any disease. Regarding to Alzheimer's disease which strong connection related to ...

Left treated of vision problems or eye disorder among elderly adults can resulting worst effects in the future. Latest research found that this conditions may lead to Dementia. Even this condition has been long identified, however most eye disorder or vision problem often detected and treated after the diagnosis of Dementia. Although this ...

As the early symptoms of dementia could linked to others disorders such depression or Alzheimer's disease, therefore consult to the physician may give precise determined whether the symptoms lead to dementia or effect of other diseases. One of the strength early indicated to both symptoms of dementia and alzheimer's is the ...

Intensive activities such as walking, bicycling, hiking, and swimming in both moderate and high intensity may improve their cognitive skills including to attention and conflict resolution. Moderate exercising categorized with do exercise less than 3 days per week and ...

From recent study, researcher recommend the clinician should be pay attention with emotional condition of patient with have Dementia, because it may leads to suicidal thinking. This issue due to a new study leading by Brian Drapper, M.D., from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. The study author explained ...

The characteristic of insomnia level given based on the period when they appear and not duration of sleep. A. When insomnia happen during first week or few weeks, this is categorized Transient or Short-Term Insomnia. Most of this case influenced by; - Stress This stress including ...

Four in five of the 180,000 patients given the antipsychotics should not be on the medications, it warns. The drugs, which have a strong sedative effect, are commonly given to dementia patients in care homes and hospitals, but studies show that can triple the ...