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    The experiment used a fake photo of actor Clint Eastwood and Pisa's leaning tower to test how the brain links person and place.
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    How Your Brain Remembers Where You Parked The Car

    Jul 01, 2015
    When people saw photos that linked a famous person with a famous place, it changed the behavior of certain neurons in their brains. And it changed their memories, too.
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    Arturo Martinez watches his wife, Aurora Martinez, put on makeup in their San Rafael, Calif., home. She has Alzheimer's.
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    Can Technology Ease The Burden Of Caring For People With Dementia?

    Jun 29, 2015
    Things like activity trackers and sensors might make it easier to keep people with dementia safe and help caregivers. Researchers are going to test that idea in the real world.
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    Seeing What Isn't There: Inside Alzheimer's Hallucinations

    May 30, 2015
    Sometimes Greg O'Brien gets a tingling in the back of his brain that tells him a hallucination is coming. Lions. Spiders. Birds. Sometimes the creatures are friendly. Too often, they're not.
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    A whole range of foods in common in the Mediterranean diet — from fish to nuts to fruits and vegetables — are rich in antioxidants and may protect against cognitive decline.
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    Brain Boost: Mediterranean Diet May Fend Off Memory Loss

    May 12, 2015
    People in their 60s and 70s who followed the Mediterranean diet for four years held steady on cognitive tests, a study found. But the test scores of people following a lower-fat diet went down.
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    Engaging, mentally stimulating work is good for the brain, scientists say, whether you get paid to do it or not. Running a household can be as mentally demanding as running a company.
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    Your Tough Job Might Help Keep You Sharp

    Apr 29, 2015
    In an eight-year study of older people, those who had held mentally demanding, stimulating jobs tended to retain their mental agility better than people whose work was less stimulating.
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    Can A Person With Dementia Consent To Sex?

    Apr 22, 2015
    A jury in Iowa acquitted a man who had been criminally charged for having sex with his wife, who had Alzheimer's. Very few care facilities have policies on dementia, sex and consent.
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    Report: Hostile Workplace at University Alzheimer's Center

    Apr 20, 2015

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — An investigation at the University of California, Los Angeles, medical school found that female professors at its Alzheimer's disease research center worked under hostile conditions.

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    A 3-D reconstruction of a healthy auditory neuron from a chick.
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    Hackers Teach Computers To Tell Healthy And Sick Brain Cells Apart

    Mar 31, 2015
    Scientists are still better than computers at assessing a neuron's health by looking at its shape. But an effort that includes an international series of hackathons could help speed the process.
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    When combined with results of other neurological tests, and in the context of a thorough medical history, atrophy of the brain (shown here in an MRI scan) sometimes indicates Alzheimer's.
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    Many Doctors Who Diagnose Alzheimer's Fail To Tell The Patient

    Mar 24, 2015
    Only about half of Medicare patients are told of the diagnosis by their doctor, a study finds. That compares to 90 percent of patients diagnosed with cancer.
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    Pamela Hogan (left), director and producer of the documentary, with her friend Laury Sacks in 2000.
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    'Looks Like Laury' Shines The Power Of Friendship On A Failing Mind

    Mar 19, 2015
    When actress and writer Laury Sacks started losing words fast, her best friends, who happened to be filmmakers, captured her experience. Looks Like Laury, Sounds Like Laury shows how they reached her.
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    The lower the number, the riskier a drug. A University of Michigan analysis finds that 1 in 26 older patients would be expected to die within six months of starting Haldol for symptoms of dementia.
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    Risks Run High When Antipsychotics Are Prescribed For Dementia

    Mar 18, 2015
    Results from an analysis of veterans' health records show a higher risk of death among people taking antipsychotic drugs for symptoms of dementia than has been documented before.
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    Cows in England suspected of having mad cow disease in 1996. The illness was traced to particular proteins that gummed up brain tissue because they didn't fold properly.
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    Mad Cow Research Hints At Ways To Halt Alzheimer's, Parkinson's

    Mar 09, 2015
    Corinne Lasmezas began her career studying a disease that destroys the brains of cattle. Now she's using what she learned to search for drugs that can stop human brain diseases.
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    Greg and Mary Catherine O'Brien with their kids, at daughter Colleen's marriage to Matt Everett last August. Greg has early-onset Alzheimer's. From left, Brendan O'Brien, Greg O'Brien, Colleen O'Brien, Matt Everett, Mary Catherine O'Brien, and Conor O'Br
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    Supporting A Spouse With Alzheimer's: 'I Don't Get Angry Anymore'

    Mar 07, 2015
    Mary Catherine O'Brien says when she married her husband, Greg, in 1977, he was funny and outgoing. Alzheimer's disease has stolen much of that, she says, but the two are closer than ever.
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    Caregivers who are trained in responding to anxiety or aggression in people with dementia can effectively reduce those symptoms, studies find.
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    Behavioral Therapy Helps More Than Drugs For Dementia Patients

    Mar 05, 2015
    Non-drug approaches for treating aggression and other symptoms of dementia work better than antipsychotic drugs, a study finds, and are less risky. That includes teaching caregivers how to respond.
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    Three years after being diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, Greg O'Brien got his mile time down below six minutes. He says regular exercise is crucial to keeping his mind clear.
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    One Man's Race To Outrun Alzheimer's

    Feb 28, 2015
    Cape Cod journalist Greg O'Brien has always found solace in running, and a diagnosis of Alzheimer's hasn't stopped him. But making it work — for himself and his family — isn't always easy.
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    If You Have Dementia, Can You Hasten Death As You Wished?

    Feb 18, 2015
    Margaret Bentley, a woman in British Columbia, didn't want food or liquids if she became mentally disabled. But a nursing home is refusing to stop feeding her, even though she has Alzheimer's.
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    When A Patient Says 'Everything's Fine,' A Doctor Should Be Wary

    Feb 15, 2015
    The retired cop was an easy patient, who took his medicine without complaint. After an operation, the man went into a mental tailspin that his doctor realized had been in the making for years.
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    When Greg O'Brien was 59 years old he was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's. Now, he's documenting his experience with the disease.
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    After Alzheimer's Diagnosis, 'The Stripping Away Of My Identity'

    Feb 04, 2015
    Greg O'Brien talks about how his life has changed in the five years since he was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. "More and more I don't recognize people," he says.
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    Tightly packed glial cells (green) and nerve cells (red) surround a blood vessel to form a barrier that keeps toxins from reaching delicate brain cells.
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    Leaky Blood Vessels In The Brain May Lead To Alzheimer's

    Jan 27, 2015
    As vessels become more porous, researchers say, they allow toxins in the bloodstream to reach, and damage, delicate brain cells and raise the risk for dementia.
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    When he was 59 years old, Greg O'Brien was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Five years later, he is speaking publicly about his experience, even as his symptoms worsen.
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    'How Do You Tell Your Kids That You've Got Alzheimer's?'

    Jan 26, 2015
    Writer Greg O'Brien was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease five years ago. He describes what it was like to hear the news — and break it to his family.
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    Neurotrack is designing an online quiz to test if users show early signs of Alzheimer's. To take it, you fit your head into an on-screen cut out, to align your eyes with the webcam.
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    Self-Tracking Gadgets That Play Doctor Abound At CES

    Jan 05, 2015
    A new wave of self-monitoring devices and apps is hitting the Consumer Electronics Show — ones with explicit medical purposes. They promise to help diagnose everything from ear infections to diseases.
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    Two Young Researchers Honored By UNLV For Academic Excellence

    Dec 23, 2014
    A researcher dedicated to finding a cure for cancer and a biologist uncovering the mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease were honored recently as UNLV’s...
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    Mapping The Mind

    Apr 15, 2013
    Last week, President Obama announced an ambitious project to map the human brain. The federal government would allocate $100 million to find out how neurons communicate with each other in the creation of knowledge and memories.
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    Music: Therapy for the Brain

    May 03, 2012

    As the population ages and dementia threatens to become an epidemic, researchers are looking for ways to stimulate the brain and improve memory. The art of music and the science of the brain come together in Cleveland with the Cleveland Orchestra and the neurologists of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.

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    StoryCorps and Memory Loss

    Jun 23, 2010

    StoryCorps is a radio program that travels the country, allowing two people to sit down and interview each other. A few weeks ago, Storycorps visited Las Vegas to interview people at memory loss facilities. They sat down with people with Alzheimer's or dementia and their family members and asked them to share their stories. We'll be playing some of those interviews over the next two weeks. And we'll also have a special show on Tuesday where we talk about memory loss and how it affects people and their loved ones. Do you know someone with Alzheimer's or dementia? How has it changed their lives? How has it changed yours?

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