I ran across this podcast: https://amindr.com/ AMiNDR: A Month in Neurodegenerative Disease Research This is a podcast made by scientists for scientists, to help you save time so you can conduct better research. During each episode, the latest primary research articles in each topic for the past mo...

I wish I had time to comb through J11's comments after reading this NY Time article, but my morning coffee cup is empty, which means I need to move on. Based on this NY Times article I just read, I lean to it not being worth approving aducanumab: F.D.A. Panel Declines to Endorse Controversial Alzhei...

Some good -- and interesting -- news for women and potential therapeutics:

Female Chromosomes Offer Resilience to Alzheimer’s

Family Tree Guy wrote:@circular-- reasonable concern, though if somebody clearly has AD, then it becomes a risk-reward calculation.

I was thinking that too just after my post. Context is everything.

I was thinking it might be useful not as an AD diagnostic but to track lifestyle changes? That info about how they would interpret the results is useful too.

Here’s more about this test. I’ll probably wait until full validation, which if successful may make it coverable by insurance, maybe at least with prior auth for higher risk patients. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/alzheimers-drug-discovery-foundation-announces-major-funding-commitment-to-...

This is interesting, but I can’t help but wonder what other molecules in the subjects’ brains are breaking apart and possibly with adverse consequences, simultaneous endpoints that are’t being studied.

J11 wrote: How much progress can we live with before we are completely swamped?

I’m already there

I think gene editing will be like almost all other technologies, both good and evil in the combined hands of this existential soup we call the human species. Ohm.

Hi J11. I’m also interested at the $100 price point. I wish I could help kick the tires but I’m swamped from 4+ years of nonstop caregiving (handling cases 2 and 3 now) and my personal affairs and psyche are completely down the drain for it. Hopefully I’ll find some more info here when I can turn my...

I am wearing the FitBit Versa 2 which is unfortunately bluetooth connected but the information on oxygen levels is mind boggling. In addition to basic sleep information and with the premium option, I now track an average nightly Sp02 level and it also shows me the Estimated Oxygen Variation (low vs...