Adventures with Dementia

This recent piece of research may be of interest: https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/news_article.php?newsID=2625

I found this report on a research project very interesting: http://www.alzforum.org/news/research-news/memory-retrieval-not-storage-hinder...

I've posted about the breast cancer drug Tamoxifen before.  More than one study has suggested that this drug may cause or contribute to ...

This dementia related story is becoming an online sensation and many people in the UK and beyond will be aware of it, but I didn't want ...

As promised, some thoughts about the various points he made: 'The prime minister was speaking to an audience of 300 experts who hav...

A previous post (which has by far the most page views on AWD) discussed the Prime Minister's useful acknowledgement that Alzheimer's...

An extract from yesterday's Hansard:  Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford) (Con): Figures published yesterday show that over the past...

I was reading about schizophrenia, prompted by an article about a young girl diagnosed with it.  Her hallucinations were described and I cou...

When my wife was at the lowest point in her decline last autumn, a professional arrived just at the point when she had fallen down and was e...

Someone was worrying online about her mother who wrote down the names of people in their family and her relationship to them. I can unders...

I've blogged about the possible link between Tamoxifen and memory/dementia: here  and  here . This is a link to an interesting articl...

This blog post  is another clear explanation of the possible (likely?) link between the Herpes virus and many cases of Alzheimer's. It a...

Well, not quite true but it does seem to be the case that the best known drugs used to treat dementia symptoms are pretty poor. People carr...

I've not had time yet to find the very detailed letter referred to in the previous Tamoxifen post. However I know the main problem with...

Tamoxifen has been in use to treat breast cancer patients for several decades. Typically, it is used, either alone or in combination with c...

As I said, S has had many blood tests over the years and evidence of various different viruses has been found. Amongst these are Herpes typ...

Prior to S's condition really becoming apparent, there was a decade or more when she regularly had debilitating viral infections which o...