RE: Alzheimer's disease

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My sympathies and encouragement go out to you, Jim. Alzheimer's is a very tough disease for a family to cope with. I hope you get some encouraging responses from your new colleagues. (I'm new also.)

Alzheimer's disease results when a proteinaceous plaque builds up in the brain, trigerring an inflammatory reaction with secondary scarring and neuronal cell death (loss of brain cells!). It is a progressive disease that, thus far, can only be slowed down with certain new medications like Aricept and Namenda. I would be curious to hear of some trainers who have tried using NF to help patients access as-yet-undiseased areas of the brain. The early signs of the disease are usually due to loss of short term memory function, but the frontal lobes also seem especially vulnerable to this thus far irreversible and tragic disorder. If patients with this disease could be helped to access hitherto unused neural pathways to replace those that have been damaged or destroyed, that would certainly bring even some short-term comfort to sufferers.

It's doubtful NF could actually fight back the disease process itself, however.

Best regards, , M.D., Denver

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