https://news.ubc.ca/2017/10/31/alzheimers-disease-might-be-a-whole-body-problem/
Alzheimer's disease, the leading cause of dementia, has long been assumed to originate in the brain but new research indicates that it could be triggered by breakdowns elsewhere in the body.
The findings, published today in Molecular Psychiatry [DOI: 10.1038/mp.2017.204] [DX], offer hope that future drug therapies might be able to stop or slow the disease without acting directly on the brain, which is a complex, sensitive and often hard-to-reach target. Instead, such drugs could target the kidney or liver, ridding the blood of a toxic protein [amyloid-β protein] before it ever reaches the brain.
"Alzheimer's disease is clearly a disease of the brain, but our research shows that we need to pay attention to the whole body to understand where it comes from, and how to stop it," said Dr. Weihong Song, UBC psychiatry professor.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday November 03 2017, @04:21PM (1 child)
Music Therapy. Insist that, should your mental condition deteriorate, your family and/or caretakers regularly play music and other media from back when you were younger and stronger.
So for current old Geezers, this would be stuff like Louis Armstrong, Gershwin, perhaps some fifties and even sixties shit. Old TV shows etc. The sense of association can tie who they were to who they are today.
Note: I didn't come up with this idea, but I think it's a good one -- who likes the crap media churned out nowadays anyway?
The second I become incontinent or demented, I'm going to go full-chimp and fling my poo at people while making monkey-noises. That's always been my lifelong dream, just gotta wait until I have the right excuse to do it.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by HiThere on Friday November 03 2017, @05:14PM
You've been channeling my father's ghost. He got Alzheimer's and towards the end one of his joys was to take his urine bag and swing it around his head...at some point it usually broke.
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