CONFERENCE 2014-10-23 00:00:00-2014-10-25 00:00:00 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 23 October 2014 to 25 October 2014 Vancouver was recently selected to host the 9th International Conference on Frontotemporal Dementias (ICFTD), which will take place at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, from October
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Other 15 July 2011. Communicating genetic information about Alzheimer’s disease to patients and families can be a daunting challenge. Clinicians and researchers faced with this task can take heart, however, because comprehensive guidelines for AD genetic testin
Other Introduction by Gabrielle Strobel This is a simplified version of the protocol for predictive testing as used at the Alzheimer Disease Research Center at Columbia University, New York. It is based on the protocol for Huntington disease developed at the Co
Other Thomas Greene's mother developed AD in her mid-thirties. Thomas decided to end uncertainty about his own genetic status and took a predictive test when he was 31. When it came back positive for an AD mutation, he grabbed the bull by its horns as best
Other By Gabrielle Strobel Jennifer Williamson is a genetic counselor at the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center at Columbia University, New York. She sees families with neurogenetic
Other Experts urge people to seek genetic counseling before and after testing, though in practicality, some people do not. Here is the story of one man who took matters into his own hands. We have used a pseudonym to preserve his anonymity. June 2006: Tom Drury
Other Among the concerns of providers of predictive tests, suicide tops the list. What if knowing one will develop Alzheimer disease in mid-life exacts such an emotional toll on an already anxious and vulnerable person that they decide life has become unbearabl
Other By Gabrielle Strobel "I am finding out this month. If I have it, I will never have kids. It's got to stop somewhere in our family." Tom Drury (a pseudonym), 36. "If I knew I carried the mutation, I would not be able to get up in the mo
Other In this conversation with Gabrielle Strobel, the husband of a 39-year-old mother of three recounts how the couple spent nearly 2 years with erroneous diagnoses and useless treatments of his wife's condition until she was correctly diagnosed with earl
Other Very early diagnosis is an area of intense research, and it is still too early to tell whether careful interviewing, neuropsychological testing, brain imaging, or spinal fluid tests will prove the most sensitive and reliable early indicators of incipient
Other By Gabrielle Strobel "The neurologist diagnosed conversion disorder (see Medline). I should not have believed that. We went to counseling sessions for a year but nothing happened." —Caregiver. Families with eFAD tell stories of being misdiagnos
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