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Alzheimer's Disease

AlzForum: Disease Management

The Alzheimer Research Forum, a scientific community dedicated to understanding Alzheimer's disease, offers information for the lay public on diagnosis, treatment, and caregiving, with special emphasis on current Alzheimer’s research.

The Alzheimer's Association

The Alzheimer's Association site offers a wealth of helpful information for patients, family members, and care givers. Well-organized and easy to use (including a full index and search engine), it includes information about the organization and its many chapters; resources for care givers; medical and public policy information; a suggested reading list, a schedule of conferences; and links to other Internet resources, including sites maintained by local chapters of the Association.

Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center

The ADEAR Center, a service of the National Institute on Aging, provides extensive information about Alzheimer's disease for Alzheimer's patients, families and caregivers. The site offers research updates, referrals to other Alzheimer's centers, a list of helpful publications, a clinical trial database, and a calendar of events.

Ask NOAH About Alzheimer's Disease

Ask NOAH About Alzheimer's Disease is a section of NOAH: New York Online Access to Health, an extensive site provided by a group of organizations including the New York Academy of Medicine, the New York City Department of Health, and the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Written in clear lay language, it includes information about the causes and symptoms of Alzheimer's disease; the latest treatments; suggestions for care givers; and resources and links for further information.

Dana Links

It Takes a Village: Large-Scale Studies Prove Vital to Alzheimer’s Disease Research

It Takes a Village: Large-Scale Studies Prove Vital to Alzheimer’s Disease Research

Published Feb 26, 2010
by Richard J. Hodes
In this seven-part series, directors of neuroscience-related institutes at the National Institutes of Health examine how brain research has progressed since 2000—the decade after The Decade of the Brain. Here in the final part, we hear from Richard J. Hodes, M.D., of the National Institute on Aging.

Obesity May Increase Alzheimer’s Risk

Published Sep 21, 2009
by Sandra A. Swanson
 

Last Updated: 4/28/10
Editor: Johanna Goldberg
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