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Toy Tractors Trigger Memories
(Source: HealthCentral) - RDO Equipment, of Moorhead, MN, manufactures agricultural equipment. However, the company recently gave 28 miniature tractors to Hospice of the Red River Valley. These tractors, when put in front of Alzheimer's patients, stimulated conversation and memories for these former farmers.
Pin1 Enzyme Has Dementia Pros and Cons
(Source: BIDMC News) - Alzheimer's disease and a rare hereditary form of dementia (frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism-17) both result from an over-accumulation of tau proteins, which form tangled lesions in the brain and eventually cause the loss of brain cells responsible for memory.
New Insight into the Development of Alzheimer's
(Source: ScienceDaily) - Scientists in Belgium report a molecular link between Alzheimer's and the development of the disease's characteristic brain plaques.
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