Brian and Amelia Cottle’s story: Living with early onset Alzheimer’s disease (Links to an external site)
The Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network Trials Unit (DIAN-TU) has completed the first stage of participant enrollment in the first Alzheimer’s prevention trial for autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease (ADAD), also referred to as early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. The goal of the first stage of the study is to determine the biomarker and cognitive effects of two different […]
A devastating disease that can rob you of your memory has an Alabama woman traveling to Missouri for help. The mother of three is taking part in a ground breaking study led by Washington University. Carrie Richardson, a 34-year-old preschool teacher and mother of three is in the fight of her life.
Most research into dementia is about finding treatments for people who are already affected by symptoms. But a trial is under way in London which aims to prevent Alzheimer’s in people at high risk, before they show any physical signs of the disease.
At the University of Washington’s School of Medicine there is a computer database that states with certainty – albeit heavily encrypted – whether or not Sophie Leggett will develop a form of genetically inherited early onset Alzheimer’s disease. But she has chosen not to find out what it says.