factor? Do you know what happened to that?
I have heard about the plaques too, but no definitive test... I have
been wondering about this as they are now advertising medications
which, they say, the sooner you take them the better.
So far Alzheimers in our family is limited to those two siblings,
meaning, it could be environmentally caused... or it could just be
that the following generation is not quite old enough to develop
symptoms :) Personally, I find it suspicious that they both died of
stroke, which can cause dementia...
Dana
----- Original Message -----
From: G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:40:13 -0500
Subject: Alzheimer's
To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
My grandmother suffered through several difficult years of
Alzheimer's. This was back in the mid-90's. At the time, doctors said
that Alzheimer's can only be positively identified after death. I
believe this is mostly still true today. However, so much research has
been done as to the effects of the disease, that an almost certain
diagnosis of Alzheimer's can be made by simply studying the behavior
of a person.
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.
----- Original Message -----
From: dana tierney
To: CF-Community
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: schizophrenia.
<snip>.
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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