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Pre-registration for the 2017 AAGP Annual Meeting closes on March 4. Register here. AAGP's group rate of $195/night at the Hilton Anatole expires March 9. Make your reservations here.
AAGP
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is seeking feedback on the draft of "Practice Guideline for the Pharmacological Treatment of Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder," developed by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). A PDF version of the draft and instructions for providing comment are available on the APA website. The deadline to comment is March 17, 2017.
Medical News Today
New research investigates the role of calcium production in Alzheimer's disease. The neurodegenerative process may be caused by a calcium imbalance within the brain cell.
Mitochondria — sometimes referred to as the "powerhouse of the cell" — are small structures that transform energy from food into cell "fuel."
In the mitochondria of a brain cell, calcium ions control how much energy is produced for the brain to function.
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Science Daily
Taking one oxycodone tablet together with even a modest amount of alcohol increases the risk of a potentially life-threatening side effect known as respiratory depression, which causes breathing to become extremely shallow or stop altogether, reports a study. Elderly people were especially likely to experience this complication, the study found.
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Psychiatric Times
Highlights of three new studies in geriatric psychiatry include evidence that cognitive decline begins in women at about age 50, about 25 percent of adults age 60 to 85 use psychiatric drugs, and a first-in-class tau-targeting vaccine shows favorable safety and immunogenicity results in Alzheimer's disease. Scroll through the slides for the latest findings and take-home messages.
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R & D Magazine
Does a patient have depression or a cognitive disorder such as Alzheimer's disease or both? Since both disorders have overlapping symptoms, how can a clinician tell them apart to make an appropriate diagnosis? In a new article published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, researchers have found that single photon emission computed tomography, or SPECT, can help to distinguish between these diagnostic categories.
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Psychiatry Advisor
Benzodiazepine use is associated with a 20 percent increased risk for stroke among older adults with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study published in International Clinical Psychopharmacology.
A group of Finnish researchers, headed by Heidi Tiapale from the Kuopio Research Centre of Geriatric Care at the University of Eastern Finland, investigated the risk for any stroke and for ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke associated with incident benzodiazepine and related drug use among 45,050 community-dwelling individuals with newly diagnosed AD (mean age, 80 years).
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Science Daily
Older adults who live in poor and violent urban neighborhoods are at greater risk for depression, a study by researchers from UC Davis, the University of Minnesota and other institutions published Jan. 23 in the journal Health & Place has found.
The research specifically showed that older adults who lived in neighborhoods with more homicide and a higher poverty rate experienced more depressive symptoms. In fact, neighborhood homicide rates accounted for almost a third of the effect of neighborhood poverty on older adult depression.
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Newsweek
The key is early intervention, before symptoms are evident and brain damage is too extensive. "That's how you stop the disease," says Rudy Tanzi, director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. "You don't wait."
This aggressive attempt to prevent Alzheimer’s rather than treating it is the most exciting new development in decades, as well as a radical departure for researchers and the pharmaceutical industry. Traditionally, drug companies have tested their therapies on patients who already have memory loss, trouble thinking and other signs of dementia.
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By Dorothy L. Tengler
 No one enjoys making mistakes, looking bad, feeling embarrassed or being humiliated in front of others. But everyone has had such an experience at least once. An excessive and unreasonable fear of social situations, however, may signal a social anxiety disorder (SAD). In a recent study, researchers found that the successful treatment of a social anxiety disorder alters key brain structures that are involved in processing and regulating emotions.
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Adweek
Anyone dealing with an elderly relative knows just how hard it is to find help and monitor progress — a problem most of us will have to face at some point in our lives.
You want your loved ones to stay in their homes, but who has time for around-the-clock care? Hiring a professional nurse through a service can be pricey, and your needs might be more suited to companionship than nursing duties. Or you might need someone only now and then, when you can't be there or need a break.
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TIME
If you've ever been a caregiver to aging parents, you've likely been through the battle over when to move them out of the home they love and into something more suitable to their changing needs. That's only going to get more common as the U.S. population ages. Demographic experts say the population over age 65 will swell from 50 million to nearly 80 million in the next two decades. And all those people will need a place to live. If history is a good indicator, that place is unlikely to be their current home — though that appears to be changing.
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