There is a fair amount of evidence that supports the idea that the disease is genetic. I know that I am closely following the rapid advances being made in the detection and treatment of the disease. I know that researchers have been able to cure lab animals of the presence of "plaques" in their brains. These are the physical indicators used to diagnose the disease in humans after death. However, they don't know whether the plaques cause the disease, or are merely a symptom.
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From: dana tierney
To: CF-Community
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: schizophrenia.
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As for Alzheimer's... my great-aunt, who had Alzheimer's, just died of
a stroke. Her sister, my grandmother, also had Alzheimer's and died of
a stroke. Hmm. Makes me wonder if the original problem in both cases
was perhaps a stroke??? Alzheimer's is becoming shorthand for a
dementia in the elderly, but as far as I know there is still no way to
diagnose it in the living except by exclusion....though if anyone here
knows otherwise, I'd love to hear about it, as the rest of the family
has adopted a mantra of we don't *know* that it's genetic, we don't
*know* that it's genetic :)
LOL
Dana
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