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The Brain's Springboard to Creativity
Here's what happened: I'm not a "from scratch" web coder, so I installed what's called a "theme" for my niece's website and used it as a springboard to create a look that would capture her life and style.
A lot of work goes into designing the look of a website, but it has to pale in comparison to all the work that goes into creating themes, or "platforms" on which creative designs are based. By the time I get my hands on designing a website, all the hard prep work has been done, and I'm presented with a lovely spring board that allows me to jump and flip and fly wherever my creative juices lead. …read more
Citizen Science: Help Shed Light on the Brain-Gut Connection
Getting Old With a Sense of Humor
Living With The Jabberwocky
Yesterday I came across Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" poem in Alice in Wonderland (you can download the whole book for free at Gutenberg).
I've always loved how Carroll made nonsense words sound like language. But what got me this time around was Alice's response, and the parallel of that with how I feel about "talking" to Mom.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
'Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!'
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Free Academy for The Aging Brain
As I was sitting listening to our various conversations around the table, something struck me as different this year. We're all hovering around 50—give or take a couple years—and the aging process is beginning to take a more prominent seat at the table. Not only do conversation topics start with the premise of aging: declining health, the cost of health insurance, etc, but it seems that no matter what the topic, it eventually touches on something to do with aging. …read more
Definitely my pick for the most practical gift you can give yourself or a loved one suffering from Alzheimer's.
What's your pick?
Yesterday a social worker came to the house to evaluate Dad for possible in-home care assistance. It was a thoroughly humiliating experience for Dad.
The list of questions issued were designed to find out exactly what Dad can and cannot do for himself. The fact that Dad can't do much at all for himself is something we try not to throw in his face even as it happens. Every time Dad can't sit in the chair correctly and a struggle ensues to find the right verbal or physical cue to help him do so, Dad's self-esteem takes a dive. Every time he can't find a certain room in the house… can't tell time… etc. So when a list of questions comes along and lays out each and every one of his deficiencies in one sitting, piling them up in front of him like so much garbage to be hauled around, well, it would be an understatement to say it was humiliating.
The further we got into the questionnaire, the more Dad's countenance fell. It got to the point that I let Dad tell the social worker that he had no problem doing x or y or z, even though I knew the truth.
We ended up somewhere between the truth and Dad's dignity, honoring neither.
At the very end, this wise social worker asked a question that was clearly not on the list. She asked, "Do you like to fish?"
You could see the dark cloud lift from over Dad's beaten-down self! A tiny bit of affirmation in the midst of all that pummeling! Never mind that Dad can't do it anymore; the question at least allowed him the pleasure of showing a positive side of himself. For once, he got to answer a very truthful "yes!"
And that made me wonder: why can't we–in the pursuit of scientific correctness–remember the spirit of a man? Why can't we sprinkle questionnaires with bits of affirmation for the sake of dignity alone? Would it hurt science or government to ask "what's one of your favorite books?" to a woman applying for food stamps? Or "what superpowers would you most like to have?" to a veteran seeking disability assistance? Shoot, while I'm at it, can we change the the category from "seniors and people with disabilties" to "seniors and people with abilities"? There are always things we can still do; things we still like; things we still dream about.
Just stuff I wonder.
And you? Do you have any beef with questionnaires?
e all know, even without reading research papers, that music has emotional benefit: it can excite and calm and induce a wonderfully cathartic weeping session. This applies whether you're healthy or sick; whether you have Parkinson's or autism or Alzheimer's.
But studies have found that music can also be of cognitive benefit: it helps people remember things better.
What exactly does this mean, and what specifically does it mean for an Alzheimer's patient? Does it mean that if you play the oldies station in the background all the time, your Mom will wake up one day and remember everything again?
Let's look at the evidence:
First of all, "music" is a pretty general term. Are we talking about singing? Playing a guitar? Listening to Mozart? Listening to Bobby McFerrin's improvisational jazz? Believe it or not, these are all different things.
According to a study reported by Time Magazine,("Music on the Brain")
Different networks of neurons are activated [in the brain], depending on whether a person is listening to music or playing an instrument, and whether or not the music involves lyrics.
In another study, quoted in Neuroscience for Kids,
researchers have recorded neuronal activity from the temporal lobe of patients undergoing brain surgery for epilepsy. During this study, awake patients heard either a song by Mozart, a folk song or the theme from "Miami Vice". These different kinds of music had different effects on the neurons in the temporal lobe.
Also, from Time'"Music on the Brain"
Experimental Audiology in Germany has shown that intensive practice of an instrument leads to discernible enlargement of parts of the cerebral cortex, the layer of gray matter most closely associated with higher brain function.
As you can see, different music affects different parts of the normal brain in different ways.
People are always studying the music-brain connection, trying to understand the mystery of it. There was a particular study done in 1993 that tried to see if music affected memory. The researchers used a song by Mozart for their experiment, and their results seemed to show that this composer's music improved test-taking. This became widely known as The Mozart Effect, and people started playing Mozart to their unborn babies thinking it would give them a head start in learning.
Though later studies failed to duplicate the Mozart Effect (perhaps the only real effect is that Mozart helps relax the body right before a test), that original research sparked further research into music-as-memory-aid. A recent study, for example, found that Alzheimer's patients can remember new information if it is sung to them much better than if it is spoken (as opposed to healthy people who can remember it equally well when sung as opposed to spoken).
We also know without reading studies that music helps trigger old memories. For example, when I hear the song "Dust in the Wind," I am immediately transported back to our family van as we drove across the country in 1977. I remember my oldest sister introducing this song to me, and how it resonated with the angst of my teenage years, etc. A whole cascade of memories brought on by a single song.
In a study reported by the Telegraph in 2009, researchers found that this recall effect is due to the fact that music is processed in the same area of the brain that forms vivid memories. They furthermore found that such memories appear to be immune to the ravages of Alzheimer's. And this could lead to a unique kind of therapy:
Because memory for autobiographically important music seems to be spared in people with Alzheimer's disease, …making a "soundtrack of someone's life" before their mind is too damaged, and playing it back to them could help form a resistance to the disease.
Love the idea! Plus I have a variation on this idea from watching this next video of Bobby McFerrin (at a conference called "Notes and Neurons"), and from observing Mom as I play the piano. First, here's Bobby:
What Bobby is doing here is getting the mind to go in a familiar direction (the pentatonic scale), then leaving an auditory blank and letting the mind fill it in. I mean, aside from jumping around, that's what he's doing. He's giving the mind a puzzle to solve. He's making the mind work. And working the mind is better than not working the mind if you want to keep it.
The next part of my idea came from playing the piano for Mom and watching her reaction. You should know Mom hasn't spoken but a few words in a couple years, and she no longer sings intelligible tunes. You should also know that I don't play the piano. I used to when I was seven, but now my playing is reduced to guessing the notes with my right hand. I can play fast enough for the tune to be recognizable. Barely. Fortunately for Mom, the tune is always a hymn—something she is very familiar with. Unfortunately for Mom, I mangle the tune. And that's where the puzzle comes in.
See, when my finger's can't find the right note, Mom gets exasperated and sings it out loud to help me find the dang thing. I'm even wondering if this puzzle-solving exercise is a factor in Mom's recent awakening.
So here is my variation on the soundtrack idea. Try this exercise (for an Alzheimer's patient) with the following video clip:
Play it once. It will probably be familiar to the listener already, but there are enough repetitions in this piece that parts of it will quickly become familiar if they aren't already. Play the video again, but pause the video every so often. There are a ton of repeated theme snippets. Pause before a theme is repeated and see if the listener is prompted to supply the missing piece. If they do, you've got a good puzzle to use.
Then, if you do this with that "Life Playlist", you should be able to double the benefit in fighting that Alzheimer's monster.
Related Posts:
Music and Caregiving—Pandora to the Rescue
Alzheimer's and Music: Stimulating the Brain into Action
Related articles:
Posit Science Blog, Your Brain on Jazz
American Music Conference, Music and the Brain
By now it's not news that scientists at Case Western have successfully used a cancer drug to clear plaques from the brains of mice that were engineered to have Alzheimer's, resulting in a reversal of rodent dementia. The hope is that this drug will do the same for humans.
Here is a more in-depth explanation of Bexarotene ("Drug Reverses Alzheimer's Symptoms in Mice"):
Alzheimer's disease arises in large part from the body's inability to clear naturally-occurring amyloid beta from the brain.
In 2008, Case Western Reserve University researcher Gary Landreth, professor of neurosciences at School of Medicine, discovered that the main cholesterol carrier in the brain, Apolipoprotein E (ApoE), facilitated the clearance of the amyloid beta proteins. […] The elevation of brain ApoE levels, in turn, speeds the clearance of amyloid beta from the brain. Bexarotene acts by stimulating retinoid X receptors, which control how much ApoE is produced. …bexarotene improved memory deficits and behaviour even as it also acted to reverse the pathology of Alzheimer's disease [and] worked quickly to stimulate the removal of amyloid plaques from the brain.
[T]he drug addresses the amount of both soluble and deposited forms of amyloid beta within the brain and reverses the pathological features of the disease in mice.
Here is my visual explanation gleaned from an article on curealz.org:
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John Thorndike's The Last of His Mind is a work skinned in the devastating story of Alzheimer's, but shows what an unexpected gift caregiving can be for a child who longs to understand the one who shaped so much of his own understanding of life and relationships.
In these pages, John Thorndike gives up the comforts of his normal life in Ohio to care for his father in the last year of his battle against Alzheimer's. John takes this time to examine himself in the light of the two people who shaped him most—his proper, emotionally absent New England father and his passionate, dissatisfied mother. "No wonder I study my parents," he says. "Within the compass of their lives, everything is foretold."
More than anything, the author wants a peek at his father's heart, but finds it impossible to reach through the shining armor that encases him. In the end, though, he finds that it's not his father's armor that shines, but his character. And in the end, the year of loneliness and frustration yields the sweetest of fruit: a softer, mended heart.
John Thorndike brings out the True by exposing the Fraud, and it's contagious. I feel wholly exposed after reading this book, yet more able to forgive myself, to love Dad—imperfections and all, and to accept the inherently flawed but courageous effort we all make in loving those closest to us.
True, this book is about the beastliness of Alzheimer's, but it should be read by anyone who hungers to know a parent and to find themselves healed in the acceptance of an imperfect knowledge.
The first thing you have to know about Mom is that she is the biggest sweetheart on the planet. She has always said "yes" to anyone who asked her for a favor or a meal or a ride or even cash. We used to berate her over some of these decisions. "Mom, you're just enabling them to go get drunk," or whatever. We'd rather keep our boundaries intact. Keep safe. Not Mom. She'd rather "do onto others" as Jesus wanted her to do–and let Jesus take care of punishment if the recipient abused the gift.
With that in mind, it puzzles me that these days, the word most frequently pulled out of her tiny residual vocabulary (5-10 words at present) is the word "no."
"Mom, shall we get up?"
"Mom, isn't this music pretty?"
"Do you want to go for a walk?"
Here's the curious part. Her body language still says "yes." So why the verbal "no"?
I'm thinking that this knee-jerk negation is her last recourse to individuality. Having lost most of what makes her a person, she is resorting to negation as a way to distinguish herself from others.
Think about it. "Yes" blends us into other people. It's a unifying word. It accepts. It serves. It hugs and becomes one with the other.
"No" on the other hand, puts up a wall between the self and the other. It says, I am me and you are you and it's going to stop there.
It's Mom's only way, I believe, to retain a feeling of self.
And that revelation changes how I look at the world. You wonder why some people just can't play nice in the world arena; why they have to say "no" to constructive engagement; why they have to strap bombs around themselves and "no" themselves and other people into oblivion.
Perhaps it's because those people feel that a "yes" will blend them into the will of the other–a will that is unacceptable to their idea of a healthy self. A "no," they feel, is the only way they'll be seen.
Do you see what I'm saying? The ego's boundaries collapse under yes. "No" is the last bastion of the tormented ego.
My last post on niacinamide and Alzheimer's (it's supposed to reverse Alzheimer's de-mentiaThe Coenzyme nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) has been used as medication in 17 patients suffering from de-mentia of the Alzheimer type in an open label trial. In all patients evaluated so far, an improvement in their cognitive dysfunction was observed. Based on the minimental state examination, the minimum improvement was 6 points and the maximum improvement 14 points with a mean value of 8.35 points. The improvement on the basis of the global deterioration scale (GDS) was a minimum of 1 point and a maximum of 2 points with a mean value of 1.82. The duration of therapy was between 8 and 12 weeks. No side effects or adverse effects have been reported from the patients or their caregivers during the observation period which is, in some patients, more than a year. This open label trial represents a pilot study from which no definitive conclusion can be drawn. A double-blind placebo controlled study is necessary
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A curious thing happened to me on my way to finding the cure for Alzheimer's all on my own: I gained more respect for drug research companies, for neurologists, for folks who are obsessed with theories and practically live in their labs trying to prove their theories. More specifically, I gained greater respect for drug companies that fail colossally, then dust themselves off and try again.
After Eli Lilly revealed that their latest trials of the Alzheimer's drug semagacestat resulted in greater dementia in their subjects, the response from the public was overwhelmingly angry. Adding to Lilly's revelation, a recent report on Alzheimer's drug company stocks by NeuroInvestment painted a bleak picture of the effectiveness of Alzheimer's drug development across the board, giving the impression that research in the field is pretty much a crap shoot.
If you follow the very well-attended Alzheimer's Reading Room online, you will see an interesting reaction to these reports. Richard Taylor (who suffers from Alzheimer's) is one of many who feel crushed and devalued by the repeated failures of Alzheimer's drug trials. Imagine trying to live with hope, then seeing over and over again that no matter how much money and time is spent on Alzheimer's research, reality refuses to sustain any hope.
No matter the good intentions, Alzheimer's research seems a recipe for failure.
This week I got a wee taste of what things might look like from the inside of these drug companies. For the past few years, I've been building a theory of Alzheimer's of my own and keeping my eyes peeled for evidence that would support my suspicions. More recently, I decided to take a serious look at my hunch and see if a) I could gather legitimate scientific data that would shed light on my "theory," and, b) see if this data had any kind of flow to it—if it had a "storyboard."
My motives were twofold: I like to discover truths; and I very much want to avoid getting Alzheimer's (like my mother). Curiosity and Fear fed my research. When I finally thought I had an airtight storyboard, excitement at the implications led to action: I shot off my "storyboard" to a leading researcher in the field.
Sobriety set in the next day. I took another look at what I'd written, then re-checked my sources and found not just one, but several really weak extrapolations in my thinking, and one particularly week substantiation of the evidence. I should have waited. I should have spent another eight weeks (I know, right?) researching before putting it out there and risking embarrassment.
But think about it: the possibility of being right on something so devastatingly urgent will make people take risks. And I'm not talking only about the drug companies; people signing up for drug trials are equally taking risks, knowing that the outcome is not certain at all. When you consider that it takes years and years and years to move inches in the direction of a safe and effective drug release (such as the six years it took to find how a fine-tuned alternate to semagacestat About a decade ago, Dr. Greengard and his postdocoral students made their first discovery on the path to finding the new protein. They got a hint that certain types of pharmaceuticals might block beta amyloid. So they did an extensive screen of pharmaceuticals that met their criteria and found that one of them, Gleevec, worked. It completely stopped beta amyloid production. That was exciting, until Dr. Greengard discovered that Gleevec was pumped out of the brain. Still, he found that if he infused Gleevec directly into the brains of mice with Alzheimer's genes, beta amyloid went away. 'We spent the next six years or so trying to figure out how Gleevec worked' on gamma secretase, Dr. Greengard said. He knew, though, that he was on to something important.functioned in mice), the urgency for a cure leads all sides to gamble on a shortcut. And we're not interested in companies that aim to keep the Alzheimer's victim home "three months longer." We want a cure.
Colossal goals risk colossal failures.
Can you just imagine what went through the minds and guts of Lilly's leaders when they realized they'd failed? When they had to go out there and tell their shareholders of their failure?
"Well, there's good news, and there's bad news. The good news is that our drug was more effective than the placebo…"
Of course drug companies are going to be motivated by the excitement of financial gain. But they're also going to be motivated by the fear of getting it wrong. They know what failure can do to their reputations and their ability to fund further research.
Today, Indystar.com published a very thoughtful article on Eli Lilly's semagacestat trial failure. You won't have to wonder what it was like behind the scenes at Eli Lilly—the article gives you a pretty well-rounded look. You also won't have to wonder what someone's response would be after being given the drug and having it backfire. From the wife of one participant:
"I just hope the researchers dig their heels in and keep trying to find a cure," Dianne said. "That's the important thing."
I know there's the whole layer of marketing that plants diseases into people's conciousness so drug companies can make money off their fears. For this there is a solution: TiVo (and the advice of a good doctor).
But we shouldn't assume that everyone researching Alzheimer's has only one goal in mind—to get into our pockets with random, pointless medications. Any rational company would avoid this particular field: the risk of failure is pretty much guaranteed.
I hope we can learn from Eli Lilly and other Alzheimer's research companies to risk failure; to work even harder; to join forces in finding a cure.
It's just one doctor after another these days…
We barely got to the clinic and we were both already exhausted: Dad from getting dressed, fed, squeezed into a jacket, compressed into the car, ejected from the car, and hung in a wheelchair. Me from doing all that to him without the cooperation of his muscles. We didn't even want to go into the clinic. I told Dad that what we should do is write a children's book about aging and how fun it is. Dad laughed. I said we could describe how you get to ride around in a cool scooter—even inside the house. And how you get to have cool leopard print all over your skin without paying a cent for it. And how if you get skin cancer on your ear, you have to have a chunk cut off (like Dad) and then you can fit right in with the folks at Rivendell or Lothlorien.
Big smile.
I really see some potential there.
Might as well take this big old lemon and make lemonade.
(P.S. If you have any more ideas for the book, let me know)
In continuation of Alzheimer's and Glucose Metabolism: The Niacinamide Experiment Part 1
This post is simply me mulling over things I've read in light of Mom's dementia and my own experience with stress and mental short-circuiting, with the conclusion that in some cases of Alzheimer's, intestinal flora could be greatly to blame. My conclusion also points to the possible way niacinamide could function in correcting one of the malfunctions in the gut-brain axis.
The Gut-Brain Axis
In-depth studies of human intestinal microbes are just now coming into maturity. The Human Microbiome Project is fueled by the increasing belief that the population of bacteria and yeasts that inhabit the human digestive tract is greatly responsible for how the body and mind develop and how they continue to function or malfunction as we tinker with the balance of flora in our gut:
Visionaries are hoping for cures for some forms of obesity and anorexia along with various forms of cancer, asthma, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, lupus, and most of the major psychiatric diseases. In the future, Blaser [of the infectious-disease research lab at New York University] says, pediatricians could help prevent these diseases by infecting babies with a starter kit of friendly bacteria. "Bottom line, humans and our fellow animals have been colonized by microbes for a very long time, going back a billion years. The microbes that we carry have been selected because they are helpful to us. They participate in human physiology. They are a compartment of the body, like the liver or the heart." (1)
When the BP oil spill happened in the Gulf of Mexico, we were all
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If you're like me and need a visual representation of the brain's anatomy to understand Alzheimer's and Parkinson's research better, here are a few good slide shows and videos for your educational pleasure:
How The Brain Works
From the Mayo Clinic. This is a good starter slide show of the brain's main functions. In eight slides you get a basic outline of the lobes of the brain and their purposes.
Dementia Pictures Slideshow: Disorders of the Brain
From MedicineNet. These 31 slides show what happens to the brain in cortical, subcortical, progressive, primary, and secondary dementias.
Brain Tour
From the Alzheimer's Association. In 17 slides you will learn about the brain's basic functions, then how the brain is affected in Alzheimer's by amyloid beta plaques and tau tangles.
Zoom In and Search for a Cure
From Emergent Universe. This is a fun, artsy, and very interactive show depicting what happens in the brain affected by Alzheimer's Disease. Among other things, you will discover why ab42 is more toxic than ab40.
Inside the Brain: Unraveling the Mystery of Alzheimer's Disease
This is a video put out by several government organizations (the NIH, NIA…) showing the pathology of Alzheimer's in the brain.
The Secret Life of the Brain
From PBS. Here are three interactive shows (requires Shockwave), including, History of the Brain, 3-D Brain Anatomy, Mind Illusions, and Scanning the Brain.
Brain Rules: Sleep
Now that findings show beta amyloid buildup is cleared during sleep, this slide show will be of special interest, as it shows the role of sleep in brain function.
One thing Parkinson's can't take away from a man is all he has passed on in his lifetime. Here is Dad, rock-hounding Parkinson's style. The fact that he can't stand up on his own or kneel and claw through the dirt to get to the jasper or petrified wood doesn't detract from the fact that he instilled the love of nature and science in his children. It's in our blood now to visit all the national parks we can and to dig for fossils wherever there be beds.
He's taught his children so many good things, and Parkinson's can't take that away from him.
Anyway, ever since my sister-in-law's mother was taken to the doctor with signs of Alzheimer's and discovered to have nothing but dehydration, I've been meaning to read up on how exactly the lack of water hinders brain function.
Here's what I found about dehydration and the aging brain:
Not much—unless you count articles on websites trying to sell water filtration systems.
The fact that water makes up 70-80% of a nerve cell and transports both nutrients and wastes from neurons means it is essential for proper brain function all through life. That's a given. What's not a given is how much a brain has to be depleted of water to affect cognition.
Rigorous research on the topic of the brain and dehydration is limited. Even the "standard facts" about the body and water are all over the place: babies come out of the womb composed of 90% water; no, 78%; no, make that 70%. In adults, the proportion is 60% water for males and 55% for females. The consensus is 50-60% for adults in general. The brain is 60% water; nay, 90%. Whatever.
As for how much water you need to drink on a daily basis to be properly hydrated, oy, there is no consensus. For years I've been hearing "8 cups a day." No allowance for a sedentary life or for someone with a diet of fruits and vegetables (which are high in water content); no penalty for eating junk food (which would increase the need for the detoxifying properties of water) or for spending days cooped up near a wood stove.
One article quoted the Mayo Clinic as saying that "the average adult loses more than 80 ounces of water every day through sweating, breathing, and eliminating wastes," and therefore you'd have to drink 10 cups of water/day to rehydrate. I searched for the quote on the Mayo Clinic site and didn't find it. Instead, I found a recommendation for 6-8 cups of water per day.
Suppose you take the most conservative recommendation of 6 cups per day–do you follow that? I don't think I've ever gone one whole week drinking that much per day.
It has been estimated that 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. OK, that figure is questioned. But it seems to be a fairly hard fact that "among people over 65, dehydration is one of the most frequent causes of hospitalization."* Understandable: throw in a bit of incontinence, and fear of hydration soars. Also, some medications are diuretics, and after 50, the body loses kidney function and is less able to conserve fluids.*
But how bad is dehydration for your brain?
According to Lumosity, when your body lacks water,
brain cells and other neurons shrink and biochemical processes involved in cellular communication slow. A drop of as little as 1 to 2% of fluid levels can result in slower processing speeds, impaired short-term memory, tweaked visual tracking and deficits in attention. With proper hydration however, neurons work best and are capable of reacting faster.
But pinning down the exact link between hydration and cognitive function is tricky in the lab. From Hydration and Human Cognition:
Although adequate hydration is essential for optimal brain function, research addressing relationships between hydration status and human behavior and cognitive function is limited. The few published studies in this area are inconclusive and contradictory. The impact of variations in hydration status, which can be substantial as humans go about their daily activities, on brain function and behavior is not known and may impact quality of life.
From PubMed's Hydration and Cognition: a Critical Review and Recommendations for Future Research: "The limited literature on the effects of dehydration on human cognitive function is contradictory and inconsistent." The monkey wrench in research here is given as confounding factors:
Confounding factors, such as caffeine intake and the methods used to produce dehydration, need to be considered in the design and conduct of such studies. Inclusion of a positive control condition, such as alcohol intake, a hypnotic drug, or other treatments known to produce adverse changes in cognitive performance should be included in such studies. To the extent possible, efforts to blind both volunteers and investigators should be an important consideration in study design.
On the Mayo Clinic site, a Dr. Lette finds that "there's no scientific evidence that drinking large amounts of water is good for one's health." The recommendation in this article is to drink when you're thirsty, and that's enough.
My question is, does the lack of scientific evidence mean there is no scientific proof or merely that there is no motivation to research the topic to obtain the evidencef? Who, after all, would fund research into water being fundamental to the health of the aging brain? Not the pharmaceutical industry. If you could avoid dementia by being continually hydrated, you wouldn't need pills to fix dementia. Why would any self-respecting drug company fund that finding? And if it takes a lot of money to work through all the confounding factors, who's going to pay for it?
The thing is, when the anecdote about my sister-in-law's mother is not even rare, it makes me wonder how many cases of Alzheimer's are checked for a history of dehydration. I don't mean just the over-the-weekend kind of dehydration, but long-term, chronic shortage of water.
As with Mom. The list of things Mom was doing "right" for her aging brain is stellar: she was highly educated, spoke multiple languages, was given to prayer and meditation, was active in the community, etc., etc. Yet she succumbed to complete dementia in her early seventies! Could it all have been due to her severe distaste for water? I mean, she hated water–would gag if she drank it straight from the tap. Could her present dementia have been prevented by a regimen of 4+ cups of plain ole water daily?
I hate to look at the "what if" from Mom's point of view, but for our generation and beyond, it needs a good deal more consideration than we're giving it.
What do you think? Am I grasping at straws? (I suppose that's OK as long as the straw is propped inside a nice glass of water, right?).
Water and Brain Function
Water in the Body"
You're Not Demented, Just Dehydrated
Dehydration and Cognitive Performance
Hydration and Cognitive Function in Children
Nerve and Muscle Cells
Impaired cognitive function and mental performance in mild dehydration
Because it's Fall and crisp out and a good time to sit down to a good movie, I'm posting one of my favorite suggestions for a movie that deals with Alzheimer's.
How To Kill Your Neighbor's Dog is an unfortunate title for a great movie about self-centeredness and the cure for immaturity. The story centers around a playwright with writer's block who must exit himself in order to find inspiration. Alzheimer's isn't the main theme of the movie, but it is present in the background, and the most lucidly-spoken scene in the movie is between the mother-in-law with Alzheimer's and her brilliant, unhappy son-in-law.
Thought I'd pass it on.
The Alzheimer's Research Paradigm
If you've every studied philosophy of science, you'll recognize that current research in the field of Alzheimer's Disease is battling paradigms. The funny thing is, the Alzheimer's field hasn't even reached the level of robust theory, yet there is strife in the ranks of researchers fighting over the direction inquiry should take:
"Kill the amyloid plaque"Beta amyloid is a protein fragment snipped from an amyloid precursor protein (APP). In a healthy brain, these protein fragments are broken down and eliminated. In Alzheimer's disease, the fragments accumulate to form hard, insoluble plaques."!"
"No, viva le beta amyloid"Most people think abeta is junk," a toxic byproduct of other activity in the brain, said Rudolph Tanzi, director of genetics and aging at Massachusetts General's Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease. "This says tread carefully. It may play a normal, essential role in the brain and be part of the way the brain protects itself."!"
"Forget amyloid. It takes tauThe appearance of elevated tau in CSF is important, but merely a reflection of the disease process. What is not at all touched upon and in fact routinely neglected in the press, is that the tau protein drives neurodegeneration in a very direct way, much more so than the beta-amyloid protein, which is the target of the cited study. In fact, without abnormalities of tau there is no Alzheimer's disease. Many older individuals develop beta-amyloid deposits in their brains and never experience Alzheimer's disease, another aspect generally not mentioned. Conversely, if only tau is abnormal, and beta-amyloid is not involved, there is always a terminal neurological disease. to tangle."
"Ha! The biomarkerThe thing with biomarkers is that they only work/make sense if the biological processes behind a disease are fully or at least largely understood. Only then is it possible to choose a proxy (the biomarker) for the final result (optimally a cured patient). Since the processes behind Alzheimer's (more generally in the CNS) are badly understood this area is not well suited for biomarkers emperor has no clothes!"
"Wait. Isn't it all about insulin resistance?A new short-term trial of intranasal insulin in Alzheimer's patients and people with mild cognitive decline showed benefits on certain memory and functioning tests"
"Nix all the above. Just get quality sleep,"Levels of the protein increased in mice during the night — when mice are mostly awake — and fell during the day when mice sleep. The longer the mice stayed awake, the more amyloid-beta levels increased, the team found. The team also measured amyloid-beta levels in the cerebral spinal fluid of some healthy young people and found the same pattern observed in the mice — amyloid-beta levels increase when people are awake and fall during sleep." and you'll be fine."
If you think this is funny, these basic statistics will sober you up:
* As of 2010, there are 5.4 million people in the US with Alzheimer's
* Almost half the people over 85 have Alzheimer's
* When the baby boomers come of Alzheimer's age, the costs of care for this disease alone will cripple Medicare and Medicaid
* Federal funding for research into a cure is dropping fast
* YOU will be paying for either your own care or for that of a loved one if a cure is not found. And YOU will either be grossly neglected when this disease hits you, or you will die the slow death of stress from caregiving for someone else.
Bottom line: research into Alzheimer's—its cause(s), treatment, and cure—is alarmingly urgent and terribly underfunded.
There are plenty of people out there who believe we shouldn't put money into research at all, because so far nothing has been found to stay the course of "Alzheimer's" dementia, and the whole drug industryAnother new frontier for drug companies' illicit profits. Vaccines, invented "syndromes" and now, allegedly predicting who will come down with what disease and medicating them for decades before the possible advent of that disease. With no certainty the disease will manifest this is pure sham. And the pharmas will profit double from their con job — think of the so-called "mind drugs" that will be prescribed to mediate the untold psychological effects on people given future death sentences regarding this or that disease! is just a ploy to line the pockets of the pharmaceutical fat cats. If you're in that group, you can stop reading this now. If, however, you would really like to see your Mom or Dad or Yourself able to have a meaningful conversation with your loved ones and know whom you're talking to—hopefully for the rest of your life—read on, because the question isn't whether or not to research. The question is where do we put our research dollars?
Not a simple answer when you consider that the reigning paradigm for Alzheimer's research is serious question.
Let me explain with recent findings from my own readings:
A couple weeks ago I attended a Cure Alzheimer's Fund webinar presented by Dr. Rudy Tanzi (of Massachusetts General's Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease) on Alzheimer's research and drug development.
Beta Amyloid: Clues From Our Genes
Dr. Tanzi's group is in the "clues from our genes" pool (looking at the genes as a starting point rather than, say, looking at diet first). The dominant belief in this pool up until recently is that beta amyloid plaque accumulation in the brain, followed always by tau tangles, are the two main biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease. That is, where there is Alzheimer's, there is an overabundance of beta amyloid plaque and destruction caused by tau in the brain. Also, a higher load of plaque correlates with a higher degree of dementia (see slide from webinar). Plus, as this accumulation progresses and moves to different parts of the brain, there is a parallel manifestation of symptoms.
The connection seems pretty obvious. And Dr. Tanzi certainly has the credentials: back in the 80's when he was studying Down's Syndrome, he realized they had isolated the gene responsible for amyloid "plaque" deposits in the brain, and—given that all Down's Syndrome sufferers end up with Alzheimer's—thought to make a link between this gene and other cases of Alzheimer's. From there it was one success after another, with Dr. Tanzi participating in the discovery of three of the four known gene mutations causing early-onset Alzheimer's (these are the genes that guarantee you will get Alzheimer's). Granted, early-onset AD accounts for only 5% of Alzheimer's cases, but it does give weight to the conviction that Alzheimer's has a genetic link. More recent studies looking at family history suggest that up to 80% of Alzheimer's cases are genetically influenced (see slide from Tanzi's presentation).
The presentation is convincing enough until you start reading the commentary in the field and start learning that current direction of research into the causes of Alzheimer's"It's one reason why the so-called amyloid hypothesis, which holds that to cure Alzheimer's you have to curtail Aβ, is in question these days: There's little evidence so far that fighting Aβ leads to a functional difference to patients." is highly questioned.
Researchers coming on the scene today, for example, would argue that the plaque theory is circular reasoning. You can't say that plaque leads to Alzheimer's if you first define Alzheimer's as "dementia with plaque." And when your theory states that plaque accumulation leads to Alzheimer's, the automatic null hypothesis is that where there is plaque (in copious amounts) you will always find dementia, and when plaque is cleared, dementia will go away.
But this has not born out. It is now known that "roughly one-third of all elderly adults have such plaques in their brains yet function normally." It has also been proven that the elimination of beta amyloid plaque (achieved by the "Alzheimer's vaccine") does not cure dementia.
Thus the paradigm shake-up. Why continue with the biomarker research when the facts don't bear an airtight connection? Is the "clues from our genes" group too heavily invested financially and psychologically in this line of research (as some suggest) to give it up as dead?
Dr. Tanzi responds to these fears in his recent presentation. He didn't use the word per se, but nuance was the main come-back. All theories undergo refinement, and this plaque-causes-dementia theory is no exception. Looking at the genes may have lead to wrong conclusions in the past, but there are still some pretty interesting clues to follow going forward.
Here is a crude rendition of the protein-level pathology in Alzheimer's:
Beta amyloid (Aβ) is cut off from its precursor protein; Aβ links to other ab in small clusters; Aβ kills nerve synapses; Aβ accumulates into plaques
For the past twenty years, research has focused on improving the symptoms of dementia by eliminating the final clusters of beta amyloid (plaques). Looking at the little diagram above, different drugs targeted the beta amyloid at different points on the linear progression toward plaque: Flurizan targeted the process that snipped the Aβ off its precursor protein; Alzemed tried to block the aggregation of Aβ; Dimebon was designed to protect the neurons from Aβ; one drug successfully immunized the brain against Aβ (resulting in clearance of plaque from the brain, inflammation in the brain, and progressive dementia); and finally, drugs were developed (Aricept and Namenda) to act at the symptomatic level.
None has had any significant effect"No treatment is available to slow or stop the deterioration of brain cells in Alzheimer's disease. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved five drugs that temporarily slow worsening of symptoms for about six to 12 months, on average, for about half of the individuals who take them." on the brain's function in memory tests.
Tanzi's response? Perhaps the reason drug trials fail is that the potency of the drug is off—either too weak or too strong—and funding for a subsequent trial is cut off. Or perhaps researchers need to stare at the diagram a little longer and find out whether beta amyloid needs to be left to do some mission, then cleared before it wreaks havoc on the synapses.
Which is exactly what happened with Dr. Tanzi—a little stroll through the lab, a light-bulb moment, and Tanzi discovers that beta amyloid kills bacteria and yeast like nobody's business. Beta amyloid is a good guy? The plaques themselves are just "a field of bullets" left over from some major battle?
Definitely worth an investigation. A new direction.
To Fund Or Not to Fund
So it turns out that looking at clues from the genes is not a paralyzing avenue of research after all. Is the paradigm really dead, or just needing refinement? In the new direction of Alzheimer's research, Dr. Tanzi's findings have lead to a more recent drug (PBT2) that takes the "antibiotic" role of beta amyloid into account as it tries to clear its toxic leftovers. Do we pull the plug on funding just when the story is getting really interesting?
The competition out there is fierce. You would think from some of the stinging accusations aimed at the "old school" research that funding for groups such as Tanzi's should be questioned. Yet, as the webinar pointed out, "the vast majority of our knowledge about AD and AD drug discovery has been based on studies of the four known AD genes over the past two decades." That's old school success.
On the down side, "about 70% of AD genetics is unexplained by the four known AD genes." On the further down side, it's going to take A LOT of funding to find the genetic culprits for the rest of Alzheimer's cases. And genetics is still only one of several approaches to studying this disease! (Besides, paradigms don't die until a better one supersedes it, and there is no airtight theory out there yet).
Do we put all our eggs in one basket? What if there aren't enough eggs to spread around to the different baskets?
Frankly, I don't know the answer to this question.
There are a couple good reasons I think the Cure Alzheimer's Fund group is worth supporting, though. One reason is the Cure Alzheimer's Fund website itself. The Internet has plenty of faults, but it also has the advantage of open criticism. If you look at the comments sections of one of the papers put out by Tanzi's group on the Alzheimer's Forum, you'll see an open debate. It's free collaboration. It's crowdsourcing at its best. I think it multiplies the value of your funding dollar.
Another reason is that I've suspected my own mother's caseStay tuned for a post on this topic to be of possible bacterial/fungal originAt a speculative level, one alternative explanation would be that some cases of AD could result from a persistent CSF infection, or from a transient infection that went away but engendered a permanent Aβ response and its attendant immune modulation. and am dying to see what this group finds in their new line of research. The only thing I fear is the psychological barrier to this new approach.
A Taboo Research Project?
To be specific: the two agents being considered by Tanzi's group as possible aggressors in the beta amyloid battle are Chlamydia and Candida Albicans. But looking at Candida Albicans as a possible cause of anything is TABOO in mainstream medicine. Just browse the comments section of a recent article in the New York Times about Candida Albicans, and you'll see what I mean.
Will Tanzi's group have the courage to fight all the enemies of research at the same time: tainted motives (the desire for personal glory), psychological entrapment (continuing in a line of research simply because it's been going on for so long), and mainstream opinion about what is acceptable research (we do not look at X)?
I guess it's going to take a lot of money to find out. Which brings us back to the basket issue.
Do we have to duplicate Alzheimer's research at the Federal and State levels? The state of Texas, for example (being one of the top three states that will go broke paying for Alzheimer's care in the future), is spreading its research egg money into several baskets:
* Science
* Prevention and Brain Health
* Disease Management
* Caregiving
* Infrastructure.
Why repeat this with every state, plus private groups on the side? Is there a way to get more collaboration between research groups? The well of needed funding is infinitely deep, so why are we digging multiple wells?
I guess part of the answer is that individual motivation for research (even if it is for personal glory) is the strongest kind you can find, and therefore the best engine for finding a cure. And likewise, education plus individual conviction will drive donations. There is certainly enough information available at one's fingertips to give no one who is interested in a cure an excuse to sit on the sidelines!
So what will you do?
Because where there is a will, there will be a way to end the increasingly long goodbye.
For further reference:
Beta-Amyloid: An Antibiotic? (with a slew of interesting comments)
Alzheimer's Brain Tangles Offer Clue To Worsening
Alzheimer's Disease: No End to Dementia
New Potential Cause of Alzheimer's Disease Detected
Alzheimer's Scary Link to Diabetes
Follow the Alzheimer's Breakthrough Ride journal
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The town of Jurien is the largest along this stretch of the coast and is very popular as a holiday, tourist and fishing destination. It is situated 226kms north of Perth via the coastal Indian Ocean Drive, which is a leisurely 2 - 3 hour drive. Jurien is the home port for a rock lobster fishing fleet.
The modern inland marina provides mooring for a well maintained fleet and incorporates excellent concrete launching ramps for all types of boats.The long, safe and sheltered beach is in front of our Park and boasts shimmering water of turquoise and cobalt blue. It is ideal for swimming, water skiing and sail boarding or to lie back and enjoy the beautiful ocean views. The late afternoon brings with it magnificent sunsets which may be admired from the new jetty across the expansive bay.
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This is a great place to have brunch with the family or a loved one. We chose to dine outside And really enjoyed our time. The food was great with a hard working staff. Great place to enjoy good food and watch the world go by.
Went for a quick lunch and sat at the bar. Boy do they work hard very efficient, chips and salsa are a must however this Mexican restaurant charges for that. The sweet mango salsa was not my favorite. I got the mahi mahi tostada it was large portion and tasty almost too full. Companion order the pulled pork and liked...
Miricales... the meaning of the name of the restaurant. Fun place, very good Americanized Mexican Food.
Milagros has a great environment, good food and good drinks. I always enjoy the atmosphere at this restaurant. The decorations remind me of some of the more entertaining locations I have been in Mexico. When my girls were little, they were actually scared of the decorations as they were a bit to Halloween for them. The food has always been...
It was our first time at Milagros and we really, really loved the food. It's very fresh and tasty, and the portions are very generous. Staff is very welcoming but the only negative thing is that it is very noisy. Nevertheless It is a place where I would go again for Mexican food. The shrimp quesadilla, mixed fajita and fish...
Food was great with plenty to choose from on the menu. The seating and tables were tight though which sometimes made things uncomfortable. Overall the place is great.
We go here for the drinks (happy hour particularly) and small plates. A real Latin Gem but can get really busy. Outside patio is great but even inside the noise is acceptable. The jalapeño poppers are especially good as are any of the taqueria dishes.
This was my ~7th visit here. The staff are awesome and the food is good. It's a good place to meet up with people and socialize or network.
Recently dined at Milagros for dinner with a group of business colleagues. We sat at a hightop table, just inside with exposure to the open dining area outside. Service was attentive for drinks, chips and salsa. We ordered a variety of meals and they were all noted to be decent. Portion size was not huge, especially with the price paid,...
Always fun and a great place to relax and have an enjoyable Mexican meal. We love the atmosphere, which is festive and informal. The food is good and there is a wide range of typical Mexican dishes.
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The family and I come here to eat when in town. Food always taste great, service is great but sometimes a bit slow. Love it!
We had dinner at P.F. Chang's one night in August. First time we went to dinneer and it was excellent. The service was top notch as was the food. Will definitely go back again.
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It was my first time ever at a PF Chang.. Amazingly the food was delicious.. Glad I checked it out.. :)
The wife and I were taking a trolley tour around Boston and decided to jump out in Cambridge to have a wander around. Decided that it was time for lunch and wandered into the nearest commercial building we could see which was a shopping mall. After two steps inside we saw a great big banner stating that there was a PF Chang's out the doors behind us and to the left. We both looked at each other, turned on our heels and walked to the restaurant as we're fond of the food served there.
We were not disappointed. We took advantage of their "PF Chang's for Two" menu which is a four-course "prix fixe" menu. Good value and enough food to fill us both. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
The Hostess greeted us warmly and inquired as to how our day was going in as sincere a manner as I've received. Was good to feel welcome. She seated us, let us know who would be serving us and left us to contemplate the menu.
PF Chang's always manages to create a feeling that evokes asian influences without overpowering, kitschy techniques. The only complaint I had about the environment is that it did feel a little dark for lunch. A small complaint, indeed.
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CHICAGO, IL -- (Marketwired) -- 05/20/14 -- SingleHop, the leading IaaS and cloud-enabled, managed hosting company for SMBs, announced today that it has secured $14.8 million in venture debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank with participation by Farnam Street Financial, Inc. This is in addition to the company's 2012 Series A of $27.5 million, a round lead by Battery Ventures. With this new funding, SingleHop will have raised more than $42 million in total equity and debt capital, providing the company with the financial flexibility to continue its rapid growth, further build out its technology products and services, and make strategic investments.
"SingleHop continues to deliver on its goal to provide the most flexible, reliable platform for cloud computing. We are ideally suited for SMBs because we have the scope and breadth of services to design the optimal infrastructure for each client, and we support our customers with a commitment to service beyond support and the best SLAs in the market," said Zak Boca, CEO of SingleHop. "This financing ensures we are well capitalized to grow our team and our services and well positioned to make strategic investments as we continue to cement our leadership position in the SMB space."
In the last year, SingleHop has solidified its position as one of the fastest growing IaaS and managed hosting providers. SingleHop caters to the needs of the SMB market by providing a wide breadth of hosting options and through easy deployments -- fully managed or self-service, customizable dashboards, and its award-winning client portal -- LEAP -- allowing complete access to their systems from any device. Other key highlights and accomplishments include:
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