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Research rates high with residents.
Residents of three Tulsa, Oklahoma area nursing homes are helping researchers find some answers to the unsolved puzzle of Alzheimer's disease. Recent research has linked Alzheimer's and Down's syndrome through enzymes found on the number 21 chromosome. Medical and research scientists have long suspected that those two conditions had something in common, since aging victims of both conditions show the same neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques in the brain; but they could not find the common denominator.
When researcher Dr. Jary Mayes and Dr. Burhan Say, director of the H. Allen Chapman Research Institute for Medical Genetics at the Children's Medical ...
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- Newspaper article from: Pain & Central Nervous System Week August 18, 2001 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA September 29, 2002 700+ words
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- Clinical Reference Systems Norrgard, Carolyn January 1, 2000 700+ words
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- Clinical Reference Systems Norrgard, Carolyn January 1, 2002 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Internal Medicine News Sullivan, Michele G. June 15, 2005 700+ words
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- Difficult Behaviors Associated with Alzheimer's Disease (AD).(Senior Health...
- Clinical Reference Systems Norrgard, Carolyn January 1, 2004 700+ words
...What are common difficult behaviors associated with AD? Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an incurable brain disease that can cause troublesome...the most common difficult behaviors associated with AD are wandering; inappropriate behaviors (sexually...