Alzheimer’s Disease (Best of the Web)

FEATURED: What is Alzheimer’s Disease?

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Animation explaining the evolution of the disease in simple terms. Presented by the Alzheimer’s Association

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Jean-Loup Romet-Lemonne is the President & CEO of BioBusiness.TV, and the editorial chair of BioBusiness.TV’s original series on Alheimer’s Disease (in production).

OTHER GREAT VIDEOS

1. Inside the Brain: Unraveling the Mystery of Alzheimer’s Disease (YouTube). Excellent animation to explain the mechanism of disease at the molecular level.
2. Can Alzheimer’s Disease be cured and can it be prevented? (YouTube). Clear lecture for those who wish to understand the mechanism of the disease, as well as several therapeutic approaches. A lecture by Bruce Reed, the Associate Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at UC Davis
3. Understanding and Attacking Alzheimer Disease (HBO). Description of amyloid beta plaque formation, and the immunotherapy approach with the anti-beta amyloid vaccine.
4. How far we have come in Alzheimer’s research? (HBO). With improved functional imaging tools we can better understand the progression of Alzheimer’s Disease and hope to treat sick neurons rather than dead ones.

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