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Understanding the Alzheimer's Disease - Alzheimer's is a brain disease that causes harm to memory, thinking and behavior. With a rapidly aging baby boomer population, Alzheimer's will continue to impact more lives. It is a progressive, incurable disease. But there are many more aspects that one needs to know of in order to understand this disease... Check out the complete article here.

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Tags: Brain, Alzheimer's Disease, Behavior, Disease and Condition, Healthy Aging, Memory, disease

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A Pocket Guide for the Alzheimer's Caregiver - YouTube

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dcpottsmdAmerican Academy of Neurology, and author of A Pocket Guide for the Alzheimer's Caregiver. Additionally, he is a partner at Alabama Neurology and Sleep Medicine and Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Alabama’s College of Community Health Sciences. Selected as the 2008 American Academy of Neurology’s Advocate of the Year, Dr. Potts seeks to improve the quality of life for dementia patients and their caregivers primarily through innovative education and through incorporating the expressive arts. Born out of his experience as an Alzheimer’s caregiver, and nurtured through the American Academy of Neurology’s Palatucci Advocacy Program, Dr. Potts formed Cognitive Dynamics, a foundation dedicated to fostering the expressive arts to improve the lives of dementia patients and their caregivers and championing human dignity. Dr. Potts is also Medical Director of a dementia caregiver training caregiver company, Dementia Dynamics, LLC. " /> Daniel C. Potts, MD Internist, Neurologist, Physician, Active Health Library, and Doctor

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Understanding the propagation of Alzheimer's disease

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ApoE4 gene could cause early loss of synapses in Alzheimer's disease

news-medical.net — “Today, researchers at the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia reported a significant advance in understanding how different forms of the ApoE gene raise the risk for Alzheimer's disease.View full resource at news-medical.net

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ApoE4 gene could cause early loss of synapses in Alzheimer's disease

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Cancer drug may help fight Alzheimer's - The Globe and Mail

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Cracks in the Plaques: Mysteries of Alzheimer's Slowly Yielding to New Research: Scientific American

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Cracks in the Plaques: Mysteries of Alzheimer's Slowly Yielding to New Research: Scientific American

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