New $30M venture philanthropy fund aims at revolutionizing the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease

By SharpBrains | August 8, 2018

_____ Why diag­nos­ing Alzheimer’s today is so difficult—and how we can do bet­ter (Bill Gates): “Alzheimer’s research is a fron­tier where we can dra­mat­i­cal­ly improve human life—both the lives of peo­ple who have the dis­ease and their loved ones. I’m opti­mistic that we can sub­stan­tial­ly alter the course of Alzheimer’s if we make progress in several…

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Kirtan Kriya Meditation: A “new” tool to fight Alzheimer’s Disease

By SharpBrains | November 18, 2013

The Alzheimer’s Research & Pre­ven­tion Foun­da­tion: Kir­tan Kriya med­i­ta­tion from Sharp­Brains Enjoy this slide deck pre­sent­ed by Dr. Dhar­ma Singh Khal­sa,  Pres­i­dent of the Alzheimer’s Research & Pre­ven­tion Foun­da­tion (ARPF),  at the 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit. To learn more: 12 Ways Yoga Med­i­ta­tion Helps Nour­ish The Body, Brain and Mind From Anti-Alzheimer’s “Mag­ic Bul­lets” to True Brain Health

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The Future of Preventive Brain Medicine: Breaking Down the Cognition & Alzheimer’s Disease Alphabet Soup

By Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa @ Alzheimer's Research & Prevention Foundation | January 3, 2012

As the pres­i­dent and med­ical direc­tor of the Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foun­da­tion (ARPF), it’s my job to stay on top of advances in the field of Alzheimer’s research. Recent­ly, a num­ber of arti­cles in the med­ical lit­er­a­ture have caught my atten­tion. They are focused on a par­tic­u­lar ques­tion that con­cerns most Baby Boomers like…

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Tracking decline in the brain from the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | September 16, 2010

Inter­est­ing arti­cle on The Dana Foun­da­tion web­site on how to mon­i­tor cog­ni­tive decline in the brain in the very ear­ly stages of Alzheimer’s: Func­tion­al MRI May Be Use­ful for Mon­i­tor­ing Cog­ni­tive Decline in the Elder­ly (Dana Foun­da­tion) Alzheimer’s researchers have long want­ed to find bet­ter ways not only to diag­nose the dis­ease but also to…

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Pooling data to accelerate Alzheimer’s research

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 13, 2010

Very inter­est­ing arti­cle in the New York Times on the rea­sons behind grow­ing research of how to detect Alzheimer’s Dis­ease: Rare Shar­ing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s (New York Times)  (Sit­u­a­tion before) Sci­en­tists were look­ing for bio­mark­ers, but they were not get­ting very far. “The prob­lem in the field was that you had many different…

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