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Today: It was Valentine’s Day and the Alzheimer’s patients in a Louisville, Kentucky, nursing home had something to love. When volunteers gave out baby dolls and toy puppies to the elderly residents last week, their reactions were striking. The women tenderly cradled the life-size dolls, supporting their heads and smiling at their faces. The men gently stroked the toy puppies and held them on their laps. Photos of the joyous event went viral on Facebook. READ MORE
Science Daily: The pursuit of the usual suspect in Alzheimer's research may be distracting from a more direct culprit in the disease, according to a study that analyzed data from 51 published experiments. P-tau looked a good bit more culpable than amyloid-beta plaque. READ MORE
Alzheimer's News Today: The University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine has joined a nationwide consortium of researchers looking for biological factors that could help predict blood-vessel-related health conditions, including dementia and Alzheimer’s. Six institutions besides USC are part of the initiative that the National Institutes of Health started two years ago. Scientists are studying the role that small blood vessel diseases in the brain play in cognitive impairment and dementia with an eye toward developing biomarkers for them. READ MORE
Newsweek: Amyloids are a type protein notoriously known for their association with Alzheimer’s disease. Now it appears they may have played a role in the formation of life on Earth. A new study showing that amyloids are able to self-replicate, and thus could have quite possibly been life’s original building blocks. READ MORE
Mayo Clinic: Research suggests that listening to or singing music can provide emotional and behavioral benefits for people with Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia. Musical memories are often preserved in Alzheimer's disease because key brain areas linked to musical memory are relatively undamaged by the disease. READ MORE
