Our capacity to recognise places and imagine them from alternative points of view is thought to depend on the hippocampal formation, a part of the brain that is affected during the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease. The Four Mountains Test, developed at UCL and the University of York, is a simple test of this ability and of individual variation in healthy people and patients. <<<

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It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone. It seems to me there's hardly one family in this country that is not touched by the disease somehow. But people don't talk about it because it is so frightening. I swear that people think that if they say the word they're summoning the demon. It used to be the same with cancer.

Methylene blue will be marketed by the name Rember. Supposedly it disentangles tau protein that suppresses normal neuronal functioning in Alzheimer's. Will be first drug to reverse the course of disease. Research still by pharma only.

A Research Program Studying Treatment Effectiveness and Outcomes in Schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s Disease