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2 unusual facts about Alzheimer's Society


Dean Andrews

In September 2010, Andrews took part in the Bupa Great Yorkshire Run to raise funds for the Alzheimer's Society, Bupa's nominated charity for the 2010 Bupa Great Run Series.

Denise Holt

She is a Board member of Ofqual (the examinations regulator in England), a member of the NHS Pay Review Body, and Independent Chair of the nominations committee of the Alzheimer's Society.


Alzheimer's Association, Central New York Chapter

Regional offices are located in the Nichols Notch Building at 401 Hayes Avenue in Endicott; 258 Genesee Street in Utica; and the HSBC Bank Building at 120 Washington Street, Suite 419, in Watertown.

Alzheimer's Research UK

In March 2008, author Terry Pratchett, who has the disease, donated one million US dollars to the trust.

APOE

Apolipoprotein E, a main apoprotein of the chylomicron, also studied for its involvement in Alzheimer's Disease risk.

Arthur O'Connell

At the time of his death from Alzheimer's disease in California in May 1981, O'Connell was appearing by his own choice solely in these commercials.

ASAH2B

ASAH2B shows reduced expression with increasing age and further reduction in late onset Alzheimer's disease patients.

Bill Lawton

Lawton died in Brighton on 14 August 2008 following a battle with Alzheimer's disease.

Brain Research Foundation

Brain tumors, Multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, Epilepsy, ALS, learning disorders, depression and many others are disorders the BRF has helped raise awareness for.

Bugula

In January 2008 a clinical trial was submitted to the United States National Institutes of Health to measure the safety and effectiveness of Bryostatin 1 in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.

Center for BrainHealth

All contributions support the cause of brain health and the Center’s many research focus areas-Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury (TBI), autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), stroke, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Addiction, BrainHealth Physical, Dementia, Exercise and the Brain, Healthy Brain Aging, and Virtual Brain Training.

Cerlapirdine

Cerlapirdine (USAN; SAM-531, WAY-262,531, PF-05212365) is a drug which is under development by Wyeth/Pfizer for the treatment of cognitive disorders associated with Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia.

Clifford Leech

While teaching at the University of Durham, Leech became Censor then, in 1948, the first Principal of St Cuthbert's Society, one of Durham's collegiate bodies.

Conghua city yueyuan animal breeding farm

The monkeys are used scientific research, including gene therapy, cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, stem cells and antibody-based treatments.

Daniel Bekker

Bekker died on 22 October 2009 after a long struggle with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.

Dennis Basso

Supporter of the American Cancer Society, The G&P Foundation for Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New Yorkers for Children, and the Alzheimer’s Association, which gave him the Humanitarian man of the Year Award in 2005.

DiaGenic

The first products from DiaGenic are tests for the early diagnosis of breast cancer (BCtect) and Alzheimer's disease (ADtect), to be followed by a test for Parkinson's disease (PDtect).

Edward Tobinick

Tobinick has been issued patents for methods of perispinal administration, of certain recombinant DNA-derived (biologic) therapeutics including the TNF receptor fusion protein etanercept, for the treatment of certain neurologic disorders with widespread unmet medical need, including Alzheimer's disease; pain due to cancer metastasis to bone; severe, intractable, intervertebral disc-related pain and radiculopathy (including sciatica); and myasthenia gravis.

Elegy for Iris

Elegy for Iris is a 1999 memoir by John Bayley, about his marriage to fellow author Iris Murdoch, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease in her last years.

Fernand Mousseau

Mousseau died in Gatineau, on April 26, 2010 from Alzheimer's.

First Cousin Once Removed

Documentary about the life of poet, translator, critic and university professor Edwin Honig and his struggles with Alzheimer's disease.

Franz Schurmann

He died at age 84 on August 20, 2010, at his home in San Francisco due to complications of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.

Hilgos Foundation

The film includes a moving interview with Yasmin Aga Khan, actress Rita Hayworth‘s daughter; Hayworth developed early-onset Alzheimer’s and also had painted.

The film, co-directed by Huebner and filmmaker Eric Ellena, was inspired by the words of Hilgos who in the midst of Alzheimer’s said “I remember better when I paint.

Jakeem Thunder

Also in the course of the battle with Grundy, Jakeem unwittingly cures his predecessor, Johnny Thunder, of his Alzheimer's disease.

Judes Poirier

He was more recently awarded the Jonas Salk Award (1999) in honor of Dr. Salk, the inventor of the polio vaccine, the AstraZeneca/ASC/RxDx Award (2001) and the CSCC Award (2001) for his seminal work in the field of Alzheimer’s disease.

M. Ilyas Kamboh

Kamboh is a fellow of the American Heart Association and a founding member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Alzheimer’s CURE Foundation.

Marketa Kimbrell

Marketa Kimbrell died of complications from Alzheimer's disease on July 6, 2011, in Sykesville, Maryland, aged 82.

Martin Tytell

He died in the Bronx of cancer on September 11, 2008 while also suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Methylthioninium chloride

In vitro studies suggest that methylene blue might be an effective remedy for both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease by enhancing key mitochondrial biochemical pathways.

Music therapy for Alzheimer's disease

Music therapy (MT) is one of the most common treatments for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

New investigator

Other organizations, such as the Alzheimer's Association, consider a new investigator someone that is less than 10 years past their PhD degree.

Nusrat Bhutto

For the last several years of her life, she had also been suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Pacific Standard

In-depth pieces include stories such as "Native Environmentalism and the Alberta Oil Boom", "Global Warming: the Archaeological Frontier", "When Facebook Is Your Medical Record", as well as "Art and Alzheimer’s: Another Way of Remembering", the story of Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein (Hilgos) and the documentary "I Remember Better When I Paint".

Parkinson plus syndrome

Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), may or may not be part of the PD spectrum, but it is increasingly recognized as the second most common type of neurodegenerative dementia after Alzheimer's disease.

Parsons, Kansas

The Southeast Kansas Agricultural Research Center of Kansas State University is also located on the grounds, as is the Alzheimer's Association, Heart of America Chapter, Southeast Kansas Regional Office.

Perkins Eastman

Innovative prototype designs include Woodside Place (1991), a community for persons with Alzheimer’s disease, in Oakmont, Pennsylvania; House for Betty (2010), an experimental housing community designed for active adults who may be predisposed to Alzheimer’s disease; and The Green House Project (2012), intentionally small communities for groups of elders and staff.

Presenilin

They were first identified in screens for mutations causing early onset forms of familial Alzheimer's Disease by Peter St George-Hyslop at the Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of Toronto, and now also at the University of Cambridge.

Rivastigmine

Rivastigmine (sold under the trade name Exelon) is a parasympathomimetic or cholinergic agent for the treatment of mild to moderate dementia of the Alzheimer’s type and dementia due to Parkinson's disease.

Robert L. Miller

In his last four years, Miller was afflicted with Alzheimer's disease.

Saint Andrew's Society

Past presidents of the venerable society include Philip Livingston, William Alexander (the "Earl of Stirling"), Andrew Carnegie and Ward Melville.

Science Leadership Academy

"There is somebody in this room who is going to make sure that we are defeating diseases like Alzheimer's or find a cure for Cancer.".

Singapore Children's Society

It was also the pioneer voluntary welfare organisation to provide opportunities for training of social work undergraduates from the then University of Malaya.

Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance

Membrane proteins and amyloid fibrils, the latter related to Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, are two examples of application where solid-state NMR spectroscopy complements solution-state NMR spectroscopy and beam diffraction methods (e.g. X-ray crystallography, electron microscopy).

St Cuthbert's Society Boat Club

St Cuthbert's Society Boat Club (SCSBC) is the rowing club of St Cuthbert's Society at Durham University.

Stacy Smith

Smith has been honored as a co-anchor with awards from the Associated Press and United Press International, and for reports on Thomas Starzl and on Alzheimer's disease.

Synaptic fatigue

Hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are impairment of cognition, aggregation of β-amyloid peptide (Aβ), neurofibrillary degeneration, loss of neurons with accelerated atrophy of specific brain areas, and decrease of synapse number in surviving neurons.

The Arts Channel

Documentaries aired include I Remember Better When I Paint narrated by Academy Award winning actress Olivia de Havilland, an informative film offering pivotal insights into the treatment of Alzheimer's disease through the creative arts.

Thioflavin

The dye is widely used to visualize and quantify the presence of misfolded protein aggregates called amyloid, both in vitro and in vivo (e.g., plaques composed of amyloid beta found in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients).

Thorpe Coombe Hospital

It ceased maternity facilities in 1973 and was subsequently used as a nurses' home, then a treatment centre for Alzheimer's disease patients, and latterly an out-patients and inpatient service psychiatric hospital.

Walter Dawson

Walt Dawson (born 1982), American Alzheimer's disease activist


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