So that's what led me to Alzheimer's.

Testing Times for Alzheimer s

My dad has Alzheimer's disease.

Alzheimer's disease, drug addiction.

He didn't like Al Zheimers, because he thought it would insult people with Alzheimer's.

I don't want to get Alzheimer's disease.

What is Alzheimer's disease? How do we cure it?

So I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's disease.

And a former teacher who happened to have Alzheimer's took on the task of teaching me to write.

And David Remnick, who was really wonderful about it, had one problem. He didn't like Al Zheimers, because he thought it would insult people with Alzheimer's.

I'm looking for a third way I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's disease.

Especially if you're me, 'cause Alzheimer's tends to run in families.

They opened up their brains to see what was going on and what the correlation is with Alzheimer's.

Turns out doing crossword puzzles can stave off some of the effects of Alzheimer's.

A lot of people don't know that Alzheimer's actually has physical symptoms, as well as cognitive symptoms.

Being bilingual has also been shown to delay the symptoms of diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease.

So that's what led me to Alzheimer's. I started reading about Alzheimer's and tried to familiarize myself with the research, and at the same time when I was in the I was reading in the medical library one day, and I read this article about something called purine derivatives.

But when I read this study, avoiding Alzheimer's, and maintaining your freedom and independence later on a life, hugely motivating.

People who have had head injuries, have two to four times the rate of Alzheimer's.

Prevention is good, and I'm doing the things that you can do to prevent Alzheimer's.

Depending on who you ask, only 5 to 8 of Alzheimer's is linked to a single gene to begin with.

This is a baby blanket by Pendleton that will give your child nutrition instead of Alzheimer's later in life.

like Huntington's or Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease where you have a bombed out part of your cortex.

And he studied Alzheimer's patients that had frontal temporal lobe dementia.

So fast walking 30 minutes a day, five times a week, is linked to 33 less Alzheimer's.

These scans, the clinics say, can help prevent Alzheimer's disease, solve weight and addiction issues, overcome marital conflicts, and treat, of course, a variety of mental illnesses ranging from depression to anxiety to ADHD.

Let's not forget that some of the worst diseases of humankind are diseases such as depression, Alzheimer's disease, drug addiction.

Diabetes, cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, heart failure, lung failure things that we know are debilitating diseases, for which there's relatively little that can be done.

As you age, you're much more likely to get cancer, Alzheimer's disease, heart disease, all sorts of diseases.

When faced with a parent suffering from Alzheimer's, most of us respond with denial or extreme efforts at prevention. But global health expert and TED Fellow Alanna Shaikh sees it differently. She's taking three concrete steps to prepare for the moment should it arrive when she herself gets Alzheimer's disease.

So this whole thing started four or five years ago when one of my friends' mom got Alzheimer's.

I noticed that there is this unspoken, but very deep belief that she, too, was going to get Alzheimer's, that it was entirely genetic, that she was doomed to have this happen too eventually.

In the US what that means, is sponsoring Alzheimer's prevention research, and cancer prevention research, dementia prevention research, as well as some cure research.

If you have damage there, like in Alzheimer's, you can't remember things including where you parked your car.

Now what you need to do, if you're trying to develop a new treatment for autism or Alzheimer's disease or cancer is to find the right shape in that mix that will ultimately provide benefit and will be safe.

Oh, you have cell death in Alzheimer's which is causing the memory deficit, and then you have this compound purine derivatives that are promoting cell growth.

So the data that we collect for prostate cancer or for Alzheimer's trials goes into silos where it can only be used for prostate cancer or for Alzheimer's research.

As far as protecting yourself against Alzheimer s disease, well, it turns out that fish oil has the effect of reducing your risk for Alzheimer s disease.

So we know, for instance, that music is almost always the last thing that people with advanced Alzheimer's can still respond to.

As far as protecting yourself against Alzheimer's disease, well, it turns out that fish oil has the effect of reducing your risk for Alzheimer's disease.

In fact, I'll just go into one area if you're looking at Alzheimer's, for example, drug discovery there is a whole lot of linked data which is just coming out because scientists in that field realize this is a great way of getting out of those silos, because they had their genomics data in one database in one building, and they had their protein data in another.

If those diseases where tissues are deteriorating for example Alzheimer's, where the brain, the brain cells, die and we need to restore new brain cells, new functional brain cells what if we could, in the future, use cancer?

Eva Vertes only 19 when she gave this talk discusses her journey toward studying medicine and her drive to understand the roots of cancer and Alzheimer s.

Here we are at TED, and all the time we are very conscious of the huge challenges that human society has right now curing cancer, understanding the brain for Alzheimer's, understanding the economy to make it a little bit more stable, understanding how the world works.

We're doing a lot of work with people with Alzheimer's and particularly with Parkinson's, where that quiet voice that sometimes shows up with Parkinson's patients may be the best early indicator of Parkinson's five to 10 years before it shows up clinically.