By Paddy Kamen, publisher BetterBrainBetterLife.com

Is it possible to turn Alzheimer’s around, to have someone walk back from a diagnosis, return to work, recall foreign languages that were lost to them, and re-grow hippocampal volume? The latest research says yes, but is that research sound? This article covers the details of this groundbreaking research, along with criticism of it. 

What constitutes crazy talk with respect to Alzheimer's treatment may be a matter of opinion. Click 'Read More' below to see where the battle lines are being drawn. 

By Paddy Kamen, Publisher, BetterBrainBetterLife


Sometimes the brain remembers too much, as with autism, and other times too little, as with Alzheimer's disease. Researchers from McGill University have discovered a protein trigger that controls how this happens in the brain.

Led by Dr. Keith Murai, associate professor in the department of neurology and neurosurgery, the researchers found they could either block or enhance the brain's ability to create the new molecules necessary for new memory formation. 

By Paddy Kamen, Publisher, BetterBrainBetterLife.com

A brain that is in trouble can’t allow you to think and move at the same time. So says Lauren Sergio, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology & Health Science at Toronto’s York University. Sergio and her colleague, Ph.D. candidate Kara Hawkins, used this fact to develop a simple test that predicts with over 80 percent accuracy who is at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Her test should frighten everyone who has a parent with this diagnosis.

By Paddy Kamen, Publisher, BetterBrainBetterLife.com

Anyone with a fear of getting Alzheimer’s disease or in the early stages of having the disease knows that severe memory loss is devastating. My own mother is sitting next to me as I write. She has a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s and I suggested a few minutes ago that I take her up to her day program for a bit of a social time. She tells me that her mind isn’t what it used to be. She’s rubbing her forehead and trying to remember who is at the program and what it will be like if she goes. She’s been to the program on about 50 different occasions.
As you might imagine, I am sometimes afraid that my mind will go, just as my mother’s has, which is I suppose part of the reason I am committed to working on finding new ways to improve my brain and also helping others to do the same, via Better Brain Better Life.