Volunteers and Help Needed for Alzheimer's Reading Room

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The simple facts are I need some help. And now finally, I am in a position to ask for help and accept help.
By Bob DeMarco
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If possible, I would like to identify people that can and would help me to move the Alzheimer's Reading Room forward.
There is just to much to do and I can no longer handle it on my own.
If you are interested in volunteering, please send me an email and we can try and get the ball rolling.

You can volunteer for a specific task, or just to help. All help is appreciated.Continued on the Next Page

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Donepezil and Memantine for Moderate to Severe Alzheimer's Disease

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For the first time, we have robust and compelling evidence that treatment with these drugs can continue to help patients at the later, more severe stages of the disease. We observed that patients who continued taking donepezil were better able to remember, understand, communicate and perform daily tasks for at least a year longer than those who stopped taking the drugs. -- Professor Robert Howard
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Over the course of the trial, which recruited individuals over a two year period with a one year follow up, patients who continued to take donepezil showed considerably less decline in cognition (memory, orientation, language function, etc) and function (retained ability to carry out simple daily tasks and self-care) than those taking a placebo drug.

The benefits seen with continued treatment were clinically important and were greater than those previously seen in patients with less severe AD.

Patients who started taking memantine (Namenda) also showed better cognitive and functional abilities, although the effect was slightly smaller, compared with those taking a placebo.

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Inside Paul Allen's Quest To Reverse Engineer The Brain - Forbes

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Behind a black curtain in a small room a titanium sapphire laser is prepared to fire at a tiny and very surprising target: a half-centimeter glass window surgically implanted into the skull of a live mouse. If all goes right the laser will fire for a quadrillionth of a second while the mouse runs on a white, treadmill-like ball and watches a computer screen. Thanks to special dyes, certain brain cells will glow green if the mouse is using them, their image captured by cameras capable of detecting a single photon.

The point to all this Star Trek style technology could not be more profound. That tiny tangle of tissue in the mouse’s skull turns nerve impulses from the rodent’s eyes into an interaction. Decoding that process would give scientists the first true window into how a mammalian brain experiences the world.

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Rewiring My Brain and Stepping into Alzheimer's World | Alzheimer's Reading Room

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Once you start to understand how things work in Alzheimer's World you get calm and comfortable. Once you get calm and comfortable you give off a better "vibe" to someone that has Alzheimer's.
By Bob DeMarco 

I would find a new way to communicate with my mother who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. 

I wrote that on my da Vinci pad in 2004. This was at the same time I was coming to another conclusion, something had to change and that something was me. 

I did not perceived the changes in communication as being difficult. After all, I had been studying communication and decision making all the way back to college days, and ever since. I figured some practice and I would get the hang of it. 

What I did not immediately perceive was how difficult it would be to change all the things I had learned over the course of my life. 

For example, I had to learn how NOT to feel bad when my mother said something mean spirited to me.

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Does Alzheimer's Caregiver Love Slow Alzheimer's Disease?

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Did you ever wonder if Alzheimer's caregiver love makes a difference? I did. I do.

Can the Alzheimer's caregiver make a difference in the progression of Alzheimer's disease? Can the caregiver make a difference in the way a person suffering from Alzheimer's behaves?

Can the way an Alzheimer's caregiver treats someone suffering from Alzheimer's disease effect the way they feel?

Can the way a person acts toward you make a difference in the way you feel? Can the words of someone you know make you feel happy, sad, or angry?


Is it possible that Alzheimer's caregiver love can be as effective, or more effective, than the drugs that are currently available for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease?

Super Brain -- Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind

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Bestselling author and physician Deepak Chopra and Harvard Medical School professor Rudolph E. Tanzi, one of the world's foremost experts on the causes of Alzheimer’s, have merged their wisdom and expertise for a bold new understanding of the brain and its untapped potential.
Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being

In contrast to the “baseline brain” that fulfills the tasks of everyday life, Chopra and Tanzi propose that, through a person’s increased self-awareness and conscious intention, the brain can be taught to reach far beyond its present limitations. “We are living in a golden age for brain research, but is this a golden age for your brain?” they ask. Super Brain explains how to demolishing the five most widespread myths about the brain that limit your potential, and then offer methods to:

• Use your brain instead of letting it use you
• Create the ideal lifestyle for a healthy brain
• Reduce the risks of aging
• Promote happiness and well-being through the mind-body connection
• Access the enlightened brain, the gateway to freedom and bliss
• Overcome the most common challenges, such as memory loss, depression, anxiety, and obesity.

Your brain is capable of incredible healing and constant reshaping. Through a new relationship with your brain you can transform your life. In Super Brain, Chopra and Tanzi guide you on a fascinating journey that envisions a leap in human evolution. The brain is not just the greatest gift that Nature has given us. It’s the gateway to an unlimited future that you can begin to live today.

• Rewiring My Brain and Stepping into Alzheimer's World
• Test Your Memory for Alzheimer's (5 Best Tests)
• What is the Difference Between Alzheimer’s and Dementia
• Why I Invented Alzheimer's World and the Power of Positive Reinforcement
• Learning How to Communicate with Someone Suffering From Alzheimer's Disease

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Life After Dotty - Five Months Later, and When Dotty Went to Heaven

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Alzheimer's Reading Room The Alzheimer's Reading Room is the number one source of life news for the entire Alzheimer's Community.

Life After Dotty - Five Months Later Sooner or later, I'll gather up the strength, motivation, and goal orientation to move forward my beliefs about Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's care giving.It doesn't seem like five months since Dotty went to Heaven   Does Hormone Use Reduce Alzheimer's Disease Risk in Women? A new study suggests that women who begin taking hormone therapy within five years of menopause may reduce their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.Information should be shared with women   Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being     Dotty Looked Beautiful in Death   When Dotty Went to Heaven   When Dotty Went to Heaven She Had Learned Her Final Life Lesson

About Alzheimer's Reading RoomThe goal of the Alzheimer's Reading Room is to Educate, sometimes Entertain, and Empower Alzheimer's caregivers, their families, and the entire Alzheimer's community.

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