via forbes.comBehind 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.
9 Kasım 2012 Cuma
Inside Paul Allen's Quest To Reverse Engineer The Brain - Forbes
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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.Continue Reading -
Rewiring My Brain and Stepping into Alzheimer's World
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Should Dementia Patients Move to France?
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Alzheimer's is not just a medical problem, it is problem that confronts the whole of society. ~Bob DeMarco
By Bob DeMarco
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France is the process of spending $2 Billion to improve the understanding of, and life of dementia patients.
This compares to $156 million the United States plans to spend on its National Plan to Address Alzheimer's. About ten percent of that will eventually end up benefiting Alzheimer's caregivers.
It appears in France they understand that Alzheimer's is a societal problem that needs to be attacked on all fronts.
I first read about what they are doing in France in this excellent article in the Wall Stree Journal - France Seeks New Ways to Manage Alzheimer's Care.
I suggest you take the time to read the article, and then come back here and enter your comments.
You could also email the link from the WSJ to your congressman, or local politicians.
If Dotty were alive today we would have to consider moving to France.
Parle-vu francais?
By Bob DeMarco
Alzheimer's Reading Room
France is the process of spending $2 Billion to improve the understanding of, and life of dementia patients. This compares to $156 million the United States plans to spend on its National Plan to Address Alzheimer's. About ten percent of that will eventually end up benefiting Alzheimer's caregivers.
"Because home care can tax families, France has launched an unusual and ambitious program of "respite care," which includes adult day care and home-based services that relieve families helping dementia patients.Imagine this program for dementia patients, for about $26 a day, patients do memory-boosting activities like crossword puzzles and knitting, then shop and prepare lunch together.
France has also established regional centers that coordinate Alzheimer's resources, giving families unified sources of information on services such as memory specialists and residential care facilities".
France is training doctors and nurses about the progressive brain disease, adding programs to support families affected by it, building new memory clinics for patients, and tracking progress more scientifically to determine the best and most cost-effective strategies.
It appears in France they understand that Alzheimer's is a societal problem that needs to be attacked on all fronts.
I first read about what they are doing in France in this excellent article in the Wall Stree Journal - France Seeks New Ways to Manage Alzheimer's Care.
I suggest you take the time to read the article, and then come back here and enter your comments.
You could also email the link from the WSJ to your congressman, or local politicians.
If Dotty were alive today we would have to consider moving to France.
Parle-vu francais?
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?
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?
Baby's 1st Post-Surgery UTI And Needs Hospitalization
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...but she's on home leave, which means the doctor has given us consent to bring her home. However, I have to bring Baby to the hospital 3x a day for antibiotics jabs. This is Baby's first UTI since her Ureteral Reimplantation surgery more than 6 months ago. Both the surgeon and I are perplexed as to why Baby would get a UTI since the post-surgery MCUG scan in August 2009 showed that she has no more Kidney Reflux. I am suspecting that the UTI is caused by her swimming in the pool at Hard Rock Hotel Penang 2 weeks ago. Our paed told us that public pools during public holidays / school holidays are the dirtiest as they are flooded with people and the hotel maintenance staffers may not have ample time to clean the pool.
Long story cut short, Baby was braver this time. She screamed and bawled for a short while when the paed inserted the IV line on her left hand. It was quite a fast one and took under 15 minutes for everything to be completed - finding the vein, IV line inserted and hand bandaged. In the past, her doctors needed at least half an hour to over an hour to fix the line. Baby even allowed the doctor to carry her after the procedure, which was very, very uncommon of her to allow a doctor / nurse to carry her, what more the doctor who had just poked her, swaddled her so tightly with a cloth and caused her so much pain. I guess preparing her mentally before the procedure helped.
Before she went into the procedures room, while we were waiting in our room for the doctor to arrive, I told her this "Baby, the doctor will give you an injection on your hand. There will be very little pain, please don't cry ok? Mummy will wait for you outside the room. Mummy can't go in. You don't cry ok? Mummy loves you" Baby nodded her head and smiled!
Baby has to be in the hospital again for her 2nd antibiotics jab for today. She needs another jab at 10:30pm tonight.
Long story cut short, Baby was braver this time. She screamed and bawled for a short while when the paed inserted the IV line on her left hand. It was quite a fast one and took under 15 minutes for everything to be completed - finding the vein, IV line inserted and hand bandaged. In the past, her doctors needed at least half an hour to over an hour to fix the line. Baby even allowed the doctor to carry her after the procedure, which was very, very uncommon of her to allow a doctor / nurse to carry her, what more the doctor who had just poked her, swaddled her so tightly with a cloth and caused her so much pain. I guess preparing her mentally before the procedure helped.
Before she went into the procedures room, while we were waiting in our room for the doctor to arrive, I told her this "Baby, the doctor will give you an injection on your hand. There will be very little pain, please don't cry ok? Mummy will wait for you outside the room. Mummy can't go in. You don't cry ok? Mummy loves you" Baby nodded her head and smiled!
Baby has to be in the hospital again for her 2nd antibiotics jab for today. She needs another jab at 10:30pm tonight.
5 Kasım 2012 Pazartesi
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
Alzheimer's Reading RoomIf 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.
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You can volunteer for a specific task, or just to help. All help is appreciated.Continued on the Next Page
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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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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| Robert Howard |
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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