Deborah Brauser November 26, 2013 Full Story Meditation in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) may slow progression to Alzheimer’s disease (AD), new research suggests. A small, randomized pilot study of adult patients with MCI showed that those who received mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) therapy for 8 weeks had a greater increase in functional connectivity […]
Medscape Neurology Bret S. Stetka, MD, David Perlmutter, MD January 21, 2014 Full Story Editor’s Note : In his new book Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar — Your Brain’s Silent Killers, Dr. David Perlmutter, Associate Professor at the University of Miami School of Medicine, advocates that lifestyle modifications, starting with a high-fat, nearly […]
JAMA 2014 Jan 01;311(1)33-44, MW Dysken, M Sano, S Asthana, JE Vertrees, M Pallaki, M Llorente, S Love, GD Schellenberg, JR McCarten, J Malphurs, S Prieto, P Chen, DJ Loreck, G Trapp, RS Bakshi, JE Mintzer, JL Heidebrink, A Vidal-Cardona, LM Arroyo, AR Cruz, S Zachariah, NW Kowall, MP Chopra, S Craft, S Thielke, CL Turvey, […]
01.02.2014 by John Gever Deputy Managing Editor, MedPage Today Older veterans with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease who took vitamin E supplements in a randomized trial showed less progression of functional impairment, researchers said. With mean follow-up of 2.27 years (SD 1.22), the 140 patients assigned to daily supplements of 2,000 IU of vitamin E […]
Full Story: http://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2013/11/14/what-grain-is-doing-to-your-brain/ It’s tempting to call David Perlmutter’s dietary advice radical. The neurologist and president of the Perlmutter Health Center in Naples, Fla., believes all carbs, including highly touted whole grains, are devastating to our brains. He claims we must make major changes in our eating habits as a society to ward off terrifying increases in Alzheimer’s disease […]
BY DR. DAVID PERLMUTTER OCTOBER 22, 2013 7:16 AM EDT Full Story: http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-11336/think-youre-too-young-to-prevent-alzheimers-think-again.html Last month, the federal government announced it would provide a $33 million grant to help underwrite a clinical trial to develop a pharmaceutical approach to preventing Alzheimer’s disease. This news comes on the heels of a report that the latest candidate in […]
By Nicole Ostrow – Oct 22, 2013 9:45 AM CT Full Story: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-21/poor-sleep-linked-to-alzheimer-s-in-study-of-brain-scans.html JAMA Neurology Abstract: http://archneur.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1757019 Sleeping poorly or not getting enough rest may result in a type of brain abnormality associated with Alzheimer’s disease, a study showed. Brain images of adults with an average age of 76 found that those who said they […]
Simple memory test called verbal recall has a 70% accuracy and could predict up to a ten years which seniors were likely to get Alzheimer’s disease.
Dr. Perlmutter, a leader in the emerging field of functional neurology, contends that our grain-heavy diets are a major etiologic factor in Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia—diseases that mainstream medicine view as an inevitable consequence of genetics and age.
by David Perlmutter, MD Aug 22, 2013 4:45 AM EDT Full Story: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/22/why-we-can-and-must-focus-on-preventing-alzheimer-s.html New research shows that our diet has a significant impact on our neurological health. But why aren’t doctors acting to prevent diseases like Alzheimer’s, rather than only treating them? Dr. David Perlmutter, author of the new book Grain Brain, on the need to change […]
07.15.2013 by John Gever Deputy Managing Editor, MedPage Today Action Points Note that this study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal. French retirees who had stopped working relatively late in life were less likely to […]
by John Gever Deputy Managing Editor, MedPage Today 06.17.2013 A low-fat, low-carb diet altered levels of lipid-depleted beta-amyloid peptides in a small clinical trial, suggesting a biochemical explanation for past observations connecting lifestyle factors to risk of Alzheimer’s disease, researchers said. Those assigned to 4 weeks on the “low” diet in the 47-person trial showed […]
By MARK BITTMAN SEPTEMBER 25, 2012 Just in case you need another reason to cut back on junk food, it now turns out that Alzheimer’s could well be a form of diet-induced diabetes. That’s the bad news. The good news is that laying off soda, doughnuts, processed meats and fries could allow you to keep your mind […]
MyScienceAcademy.org Full Story: http://myscienceacademy.org/2012/08/19/world-renown-heart-surgeon-speaks-out-on-what-really-causes-heart-disease/ We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong.. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries,today is […]
J Alzheimers Dis. 2009;16(1):85-91. doi: 10.3233/JAD-2009-0920. Eskelinen MH Abstract Caffeine stimulates central nervous system on a short term. However, the long-term impact of caffeine on cognition remains unclear. We aimed to study the association between coffee and/or tea consumption at midlife and dementia/Alzheimer’s disease (AD) risk in late-life. Participants of the Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Aging […]