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New Drug Reverses Alzheimer's In Mouse Models
(Source: ScienceDaily) - Scientists in Australia report a improvement in Alzheimer's transgenic mice following treatment with a new drug.
When Music Works Magic
(Source: McKnight's LTC News) - Music therapist Barbara Jacobs writes: I was playing a Judy Garland album, intending to reminisce with the residents before I played their favorite "oldies" on the piano for our sing-along. I randomly went into the audience and chose Lou to dance with me while Judy Garland was singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." He joined me willingly, and before long held me in an appropriate dance position, stared into my eyes and clearly said the last few words of the song, "Why, Oh Why, Can't I?"
A New Degenerative Brain Disease
(Source: AHN) - Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have identified a new type of brain-wasting disease that resembles Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), a very rare and incurable degenerative brain disease that is ultimately fatal.
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