| First Study of Alzheimer's Caregivers and End-of-Life Cites Both Remarkable Resilience, Need for Support |
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| November 13, 2003 -- Home caregivers showed rapid recuperation from depression within 3 months of the death of their demented relatives and the improvements continued for a year, according to the first detailed study of caregivers and the end of life. |
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| Scientists Pinpoint Gene Influencing Age-at-Onset of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's |
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| October 21, 2003 -- Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have located a gene on chromosome 10 that they believe influences the age-at-onset of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. |
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| New Prevalence Study Suggests Dramatically Rising Numbers of People with Alzheimer's Disease |
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| August 18, 2003 -- Scientists project that some 13.2 million older Americans will have Alzheimer's disease (AD) by 2050 unless new ways are found to prevent or treat the disease. |
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| NIA and Alzheimer's Association Join Forces Promoting Major AD Genetics Initiative |
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| July 22, 2003 -- The National Institute on Aging (NIA) is greatly advancing the search for genes involved in Alzheimer's disease (AD) with acceleration of the AD Genetics Initiative. |
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| Effects of Alzheimer's Disease May Be Influenced by Education |
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| June 23, 2003 -- The more formal education a person has, the better his or her memory and learning ability even in the presence of brain abnormalities characteristic of Alzheimer's disease (AD), according to new findings from the Religious Orders Study, a major national study of aging. |
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| Certain NSAIDs Fail to Slow the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease |
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| June 3, 2003 -- A new clinical trial finds that two non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) do not slow the rate of cognitive decline in people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD). |
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| Rates of Dementia Increase Among Older Women on Combination Hormone Therapy |
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| May 27, 2003 -- Older women taking combination hormone therapy had twice the rate of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), compared with women who did not take the medication, according to new findings from a memory substudy of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). |
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| Lithium Shows Promise Against Alzheimer's in Mouse Model |
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| May 21, 2003 -- An enzyme crucial to formation of Alzheimer's plaques and tangles may hold promise as a target for future medications, suggest studies in mice and cells. |
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| New Study in Rats Matches Genetic Influences and Cognitive Impairment, Offers More Complex Model of Brain Aging |
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| May 7, 2003 -- A study in rats matching the activity of 146 genes with brain aging and impaired learning and memory produces a new picture of brain aging and cognitive impairment. |
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| New Studies in Mice Suggest Ways to Clear Damaging Alzheimer's Amyloid Plaques |
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| March 25, 2003 -- Two new research findings suggest that boosting normal, protective processes in the brain might help degrade or prevent damaging protein plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD). |
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| Findings Reported in February Archives of Neurology Provide New Insights on Alzheimer's Disease |
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| February 17, 2003 -- The February 2003 issue of the Archives of Neurology, one of the Journal of the American Medical Association/Archives publications, features a series of research findings providing new insights on possible risk and protective factors regarding Alzheimer's disease (AD). |
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