“Snap out of it!” —Loretta Castorini, in the film Moonstruck When Loretta Castorini, played by Cher, slapped troubled Ronny Cammareri, played by Nicholas Cage, in the seminal film Moonstruck, the brash smack to the face struck a chord with troubled souls, then and now. Just get over it! Right? Not so easy to snap ...
February 16, 2023
In our latest Quarterly Report we highlighted the work of Cure Alzheimer’s Fund researcher Dr. Charles Glabe, who is conducting groundbreaking research on vaccinations and immunotherapy. In case you didn’t catch the article, here’s an excerpt: The development of vaccinations as a strategy for treating or preventing Alzheimer’s is an example ...
October 22, 2009
My mother Joyce was a pastor who served her gay community lovingly for over 20 years. And then she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. She slowly lost the very abilities that enabled her to serve. But through it all she maintained her faith in God, her desire to make a difference. ...
March 1, 2023
Richard Daneman received his Bachelor of Science at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, majoring in biochemistry. He then received his Ph.D in developmental biology from Stanford University, where he studied the molecular mechanisms that regulate blood-brain barrier formation in the laboratory of Dr. Ben Barres. Dr. Daneman then started his ...
December 7, 2018
An astonishing discovery of how to convert skin cells into other kinds of cells—including brain cells—earned Dr. Shinya Yamanaka the Nobel prize in 2012 and already has opened extraordinary new capabilities in science. Applied to Alzheimer’s disease, it has the potential to revolutionize how we do experiments. Right now, we ...
November 5, 2020
Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Director, Genetics and Aging Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital The four known Alzheimer’s genes. Over the past several decades, it has become increasingly clear that inheritance plays a major role in Alzheimer’s disease. The roughly 25,000 ...
July 14, 2011
When we are deeply engaged in a cognitive task like decision making, there is research to suggest that this triggers the neurons in the brain to fire in specific patterns called gamma oscillations. It has been observed that the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease have a decrease in the ...
November 18, 2019
Do the math. You don’t have to be a genius. Yet the statistics are so staggering one can’t count on their fingers. “More than six million people in the United States now have Alzheimer’s disease—and it is estimated that four million (two-thirds) are women,” notes the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund (https://curealz.org/). And that ...
April 18, 2023
“Bad actors…using it for bad things” “Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live.”— Deuteronomy 4:9 The Old Testament has a lot to say about the heart, the soul. In ...
October 25, 2023
Over the past few years, our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease has increased immensely. We can now identify three distinct parts of the disease pathology: early-stage Abeta (amyloid) accumulation, mid-stage development of tau tangles, and late-stage inflammation. Scientists on our Research Consortium are investigating all three of these points of intervention. On ...
March 21, 2014
