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The Alzheimer's LifePlan Workshop
Prevention Is What's New In Alzheimer's?
You are about to learn of the great advances that being made in understanding the Alzheimer's disease process. These advances now allow doctors and researchers to develop early detection memory assessment tests, and implement FDA approved treatments that slow the disease as soon as there is early diagnosis.
There is great promise that prevention could greatly reduce the number of cases that develop overall, and that population based memory fitness as a vital sign monitoring - will assist doctors to confirm early onset in more cases, applying as effective a treatment as possible.
There is even more hope that newly developed treatments will arrest the memory destruction process and allow an individual diagnosed with early onset - to stop the short term memory and learning performance decay.
The Alzheimer's Vaccine has reversed the disease process in animal (mice) and humans (clinical trials), but it is not known how the vaccine compound would effect an individual's memory fitness if administered at early onset. There are many new treatments working their way through clinical trials now, including the next generation of the Alzheimer's vaccine - but it takes time and money to test these treatments.
To serve the public and the medical research community - the Alzheimer's LifePlan operates the first Internet Broadcasting Network of Alzheimer's Awareness, online personal memory fitness testing as a vital sign services, and interactive online communities for all interested in Alzheimer's research and treatment development.
In this workshop you will see and hear the leading specialists, as well as be trained on how to take a memory fitness test.
Please acquaint yourself with current medical information regarding
clinical Alzheimer's diagnosis and prevention:
The Alzheimer's LifePlan's Head Medical Advisor
Dr. J. Wesson Ashford, PhD., M.D., is the only medical advisor to the Alzheimer's LifePlan. Throughout the workshops and public service areas of the project, you will see reference to Dr. Ashford as well as his online support clinic for the population and researchers - www.medafile.com. You will find a number of lectures and research projects reported at the site. The report that the Alzheimer's LifePlan was founded upon, is Dr. Ashford's "Hypotheses of Alzhemer's Disease".
If you are here looking for research information or clinical medical information regarding Alzheimer's disease diagnosis or treatment - we offer you one of Dr. Ashford's presentations that contains detailed research from these areas. We know of no other presentation regarding these issues that illustrates the need for prevention, early diagnosis, and memory fitness testing by the population as the "sixth Vital Sign", as well as Dr. AShford's. If you are a researcher or doctor having such information, please contact us through the Clinical Support Services Registration form.
Dr. Ashford's definitive powerpoint presentation
Alzheimer's Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment
This first workshop presents the "aerial view" of a tragic situation.
Millions of people are developing early Alzheimer's right now, as you read this.
They are unaware of the many things that can be done to slow the disease process and extend an individual's "healty" time (allowing more time to get the estate in order and postpone admittance into a nursing home).
There are prevention treatments that reduce a healthy individual's chances of developing the disease, and these are being studied needs to be done regarding any effect they have after early onset diagnosis. Researchers do not know how effective mixing a prevention program with a patient's pharmaceutical treatments would be.
The FDA approved treatments (pharmaceuticals) have proven to slow the disease process - and are most effective if they are administered in the earliest stages of the disease - hopefully immediatley afterearly Alzheimer's onset diagnosis.
In the first portions of the workshop, you'll see visible documentation of the Alzheimer's disease process. You can view the movie made of Dr. Paul Thompson, PhD., of the UCLA Neuroimaging Laboratory's sequential brain images of Alzheimer's patients.
You will see that the Alzheimer's disease process destroys the brain, and the early stage memory loss symptoms are only part of the process. You will also see that in the early stages, the brain is relatively healthy - and therefore better able to respond to prevention treatments and pharmaceuticals.
The ultimate goal of this workshop is to train you in testing your healthy memory fitness - so you can frequently rate your short term memory and learning performance - and present your baseline memory fitness information to your doctor.
The second primary goal of the workshop is to train the participant in using the Alzheimer's LifePlan online vital sign and memory fitness testing baseline record management services. Visitors will be shown how to access the GUEST (free) accounts, and the functions of a membership account will also be illustrated.
The Word About Medical Advice - You Get It From Your Doctor, Not From The Alzheimer's LifePlan
We are the interactive public service enterprise (a network within the Internet Broadcasting Associations Network) that offers doctors, researchers, treatment developers and treatment providers; residence in an online Alzheimer's Awareness public service program.
We also produce broadcast quality online/radio/television programs that inform the audiences about the current situations regarding Alzheimer's disease. We do not formulate medical programs or advice. Dr. J. Wesson Ashford, PhD., M.D., has kindly volunteered his services as the Alzheimer's LifePlan Head Medical Advisor, and he is the only medical doctor that speaks for the Alzheimer's LifePlan public service project.
Dr. Ashford's medical advice, is offered here for you to share with your doctor. We urge you to consult with your personal doctor(s), sharing with them what you learn here, and listening to their suggestion on how to develop your personal Alzheimer's prevention and early onset detection programs.
Alzheimer's Awareness:
What's new in Alzheimer's? Alot, so let's take a look see!
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A large number of Alzheimer's disease cases are preventable.
The Alzheimer's LifePlan is the first population research project that will monitor thousands of individual's as they develop their personal Alzheimer's prevention programs and monitor their memory fitness as a vital sign. We hope to offer evidence that the population adopting prevention lifestyle treatments - monitoring of memory fitness as a vital sign - new treatments being available to doctors - will end Alzheimer's as we know it by the end of 2012.
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Millions of early Alzheimer's onset cases go undetected.
You may have older family members or friends who are in this group. If so, the workshops and the memory fitness testing services might help you in helping them. It may also help just to have these at-risk folks, being assisted in their workshop and memory fitness testing - they are probably just as concerned about Alzheimer's as you are, and this could give them some peace of mind as well as motivation to see their doctor.
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Individuals can maintain their personal memory fitness rating as a vital sign record - like blood pressure - assisting their doctors in detecting any memory disorder.
That's what we'll be showing you later in the workshop.
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In clinical practice, Dr. J. Wesson Ashford's Alzheimer's screening and Memory Assessment Testing holds promise that early onset may be detectable as much as 7 years before the usual apparent memory loss symptoms would be noticed by friends or family.
This is medical science, but you should have access to it. Dr. Ashford is in residence at the Stanford Veteran's Administration Palo Alto Alzheimer's facility. He also leads a movement of memory assessment researchers and doctors and frequently conducts panel presentations in thsi field.
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The Alzheimer's LifePlan offers free and membership memory fitness testing and baseline memory fitness record accounts - so individuals can monitor their memory fitness as a vital sign.
You'll soon see that this workshop is the tip of the Alzheimer's iceberg. Our program puts Alzheimer's at a personal level. Our soul purpose for operation is to support you in your efforts to prevent the disease from taking hold on your body. If you are looking for a hiden agenda, you won't find it. In fact, we caution you from thinking there is a "quick fix" for anything regarding Alzheimer's disease. There never will be, because the mechanics of this disease are so complex - no one really understands it.
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Early detection and memory fitness are becoming even more important. It is very likely that treatments are coming which stall or even stop Alzheimer's in its tracks. Stopping the disease progression could happen well before a person has diagnosed Alzheimer's. Stalling the onset of Alzheimer's by an average of only 5 years means cutting the rate of Alzheimer's in the US in half!
In clinical trials the Alzheimer's Vaccine has cleared the plaque build-ups from a diseased human brain - the first documented alteration of the disease pathology in recorded medical history! The next generation of the Vaccine is working its way through clinical trials now. There are other treatments in development as well. Experts anticipate a number of new treatments being available in the next 3-5 years.
The goal and function of the Alzheimer's LifePlan is to support a large portion of the population's prevention, memory fitness testing as a vital sign, and positioning the clinics so early detection and swift teatment implementation - prolongs the memory fitness of individuals until more effective treatments are available. It is a race against time, and time is actually on the side of the individual who develops a prevention program.
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Through the Alzheimer's LifePlan Resource Centers you and your doctor can follow the progress being made. You can create a local Community Workshop program for the Alzheimer's LifePlan - offering your online computer in assistance to your neighbors or family members who are not comfortable using a computer. Your doctor can affiliate their clinic into the Alzheimer's LifePlan Clinical Support Services and participate in a number of research and treatment development projects, while also utilizing the Neurological Disease Foundation's Memory Assessment Project (MAP) services in their clinic.
Dr. J. Wesson Ashford, MD., PhD., has promoted a program of prevention treatments coupled with memory fitness monitored as a vital sign. His concept is straightforward - If an individual does everything they can to prevent the disease process from onset; and, consistently monitors their short term memory and learning performance ratings - they will be in an optimized situation for detection of any memory disorder. As stated earlier, early onset diagnosis is difficult without your doctor first being alerted to any memory fitness reduction; and your doctor having an aggressive early stage treatment strategy "at-the-ready".
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INSERT from Dr. Ashford's Medafile Below:
As a public service Dr. Ashford offers visitors to his web page www.medafile.com access to his research papers, several consultations regarding Alzheimer's disease and care giving. The Top Ten Treatments is actually a growing list of suggested lifestyle habits - all of which there is evidence supporting their use as a prevention teatment for the Alzheimer's disease condition. There is a link within this list for "full Discussion" of the topics.
Meet Dr. Ashford in a video - as he describes his Top 10 treatments.
Visit Medafile.com, Dr. J. Wesson Ashford, M.D., PhD., and review all of Dr. Ashford's work
THE TOP TEN TREATMENTS
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FOR PREVENTING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
J. Wesson Ashford, M.D., Ph.D. (April, 2005)
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Take your blood pressure regularly and be sure that the systolic pressure is always less than 130.
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Watch your cholesterol; if your cholesterol is elevated (above 200), talk to your clinician about appropriate treatment. Consider "statin" medications and be sure your cholesterol is fully controlled. Increase your dietary intake of omega-3-fatty acids (eat deep-sea finned fish at least 3 times per week) and nuts (especially almonds).
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Exercise your body, mind, and spirit regularly. Physical exercise best 10-30 mins after each meal for 10-30 minutes, 3 times per day. Do aerobic and strengthening exercises. Maximize your education. If you have spare time, do mental puzzles (like crossword puzzles). Stay active with your friends and in your community.
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Physically protect your brain. Wear your car seat-belt. Wear a helmet when you are riding a bicycle or participating in any activity where you might hit your head. Work to decrease your fall risk through physical exercise, making your environment safe.
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Decrease your risk of type II diabetes. Monitor your fasting blood sugar yearly. Keep your BMI (Basal Metabolic Index) in the optimal range (19-25):
-------- BMI = 703 * weight (pounds) / height (inches) squared --------
To optimize your BMI, control your food intake and exercise. If you have diabetes, make sure that your blood sugar is optimally controlled.
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Consult your clinician about your pains (treat arthritis with ibuprofen, sulindac, or indomethacin).
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Take your vitamins daily (folate - 400mcg, B12 - 25mcg, C - 250 mg, and E - 200iu's). Check with your clinician yearly to be sure your homocysteine levels are not high and you have no signs of B12 deficiency
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Discuss sex-hormone replacement therapy with your clinician (such therapy is not currently recommended for Alzheimer prevention, but may be used depending on circumstances).
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If you have difficulty getting to sleep, consider trying 3 - 6 milligrams of melatonin at bedtime.
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Monitor your memory regularly. Be sure the people around you are not concerned about your memory. If you think that you have significant difficulty with your memory, talk to your clinician about further evaluation. Consider therapy with cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine.
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Recommendation of Vitamin Supplements
for discussion, see: Willet WC, Stampfer MJ, What vitamins should I be taking, Doctor, NEJM, 345, 1819 (2001)
Take at the morning meals:
Vitamin E 200 iu's
Vitamin C 250 mg
Multi-vitamin (with folate 400 mcg and no iron)
If approved by your clinician: 1 enteric coated baby aspirin each day.
DIETARY RECOMMENDATIONS
OPTIMIZE:
Fruits - citrus, blue berries
Vegetables - green, leafy
Fish - deep sea, finned, oily, at least 3x/week
Nuts - especially almonds, chocolate
MINIMIZE:
Animal products - Red meat (more than once per week), Dairy.
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If you didn't view the Meet Dr. Ashford video above, where he presents his treatment concepts, do so here.
Dr. Ashford in a video - as he describes his Top 10 treatments.
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At this point in your workshop experience -
This has probably been the first time you have heard about "Treatments" that could reduce your chances of developing Alzheimer's disease all together.
Let's consider the value and importance of this information going into your lifestyle.
- If you are attending this workshop online - you might want to review Dr. Ashford's Top Ten Treatments and the full discussion of the evidence he presents to support them. Consider how you maintain your health - and to what degree you could comfortably integrate these "treatments" into your day-to-day living. Of course, you should also be preparing the discussion you must have with your doctor.
- If you are attending this workshop in your community and there are others in attendance - you might go over the points in discussion and get other people's support in adopting these lifestyle habits - it is always easier to modify your behavior when there is a group of people moving with you.
- If you are attending this workshop in your doctor's office or clinic, be ready to discuss the concept of prevention lifestyle habits - and what they could mean to your overall health. It is essential that you speak openly about these things with your doctor. In the case of Alzheimer's disease, early detection is impossible without clinical testing - and this is easier if there is some form of early detection of memory disorder is in place.
The Alzheimer's Association claims that if the population could move the onset of Alzheimer's disease back five years, wipe out half of Alzheimer's disease in America.
So, that kind of promise makes Alzheimer's prevention and memory fitness monitoring worthwhile.
YOUR PERSONAL ALZHEIMER'S PREVENTION LIFESTYLE
At the end of this workshop you can download and print out a form that helps you organize your personal information at the beginning of your Alzheimer's prevention program. The form will help you record your vital signs and memory fitness test results (you'll be learning how to test your memory later in the workshop). This form, and keeping baseline information about your mental and physical fitness is essential to track your progress towards whatever goals you and your doctor develop as your health and fitness program.
THE IMPORTANCE OF EARLY ALZHEIMER'S DETECTION
Millions of people are developing their early Alzheimer's onset right now - and it is going undetected. Dr. Ashford's clinical early Alzheimer's screening programs give us promise that such diagnostic tools could detect the early Alzheimer's onset 7-8 years before the symptoms of memory loss symptoms show (those events that drive family members to seek an Alzhiemer's diagnosis examination). This equates to millions of healthy lives (time individuals could function indepentently - out of a nursing home) being wasted.
EARLY ALZHEIMER'S IS EVASIVE
It has been impossible for family members and general practice medical doctors to detect the early onset of the Alzheimer's disease process. Uncounted millions have developed the disease to the point that their memory fitness is failing - and family members finally arrange a diagnostic examination.
Having FDA approved drugs - right now, that could slow the disease if administered in the early onset stage - is exciting. This factor means that an individual could retain their memory fitness for a few additional years (or more). We don't know how effective the treatments would be at arresting the disease process - stopping it from getting to the mild cognitive impairment stages - if the individual takes the FDA approved treatments AND aggressively adopts Dr. J. Wessoon Ashford's Top Ten Treatments.
Most Important - You Knowing About Detection of Early Alzheimer's Onset -
Anyway you look at the value of early detection and the application of prevention and FDA approved treatments - it is the most effective treatment strategy available for Alzheimer's disease.
WHAT IS EARLY ALZHEIMER'S AND WHY IS IT DIFFICULT TO DETECT?
In the first 80 years after Dr. Alzheimer diagnosed Alzheimer's disease, doctors and researcher still knew little about the disease process. Actually, that is really an overstatement. There was no real knowledge about the chemistry, mechanisms, or pathology of how the plaques and tangles that Dr. Alzheimer first recognized under a microscope at autopsy until the 1980's.
In the mid-1970, several research projects aimed their attention towards the brain and dementia related aging. They broke down the chemistry of the plaques from diseased brains and identified the a-beta amyloid proteins that the plaque compounds were made of. It was a start in the right direction.
It wasn't too long after the proper identification of the compound that doctors realized all brains have some of this beta amyloid and that their must be something, or a series of things that allow the compound to destroy nuerons (brain cells) - causing the apparent memory loss in patients.
Almost twenty years later, researchers did identify that in the early stages of the Alzheimer's disease process, the amount of a-beta amyloid begins to climb, eventually reaching a level of concentration that it acts as a pollutant upon the brain's short-term memory and learning centers. Those in early Alzheimer's form recent memories and their brain chemistry is healthy enough to maintain this ability. But as they form memories, the excess amounts of the beta amyloid plaque seems to pollute the nuerons that are forming new memories. The process of making memory is far too elaborate to study here - but it is safe to say that memories are actually formed, transmitted and stored as chemical messages within the brain and central nervous system. When the amyloid plaque reaches a certain level - each time the brain attempts to form a new (recent) memory or learn under these contaminated conditions - neurons are destroyed and chemically spoiled. What is left in the brain's short-term memory and learning center is the "plaque" that Doctors since Dr. Alzheimer have observed at autopsy.
DR. ALZHEIMER AND MEMORY FITNESS TESTING
Dr. Alzheimer developed a series of interview questions for each of the patient's he suspected had this short-term memory and learning disorder working in their brains. He would ask the same set of questions to each patient when he made his rounds - tracking each patient's gradual but steady reduction in recent memory recall.
When Dr. Alzheimer presented his clinical notes and the microscope slides of his first diagnosed patient's - he provided the physical evidence that the disease process had been the cause of the physical damage. He also noted that the disease process was consistent (followed a consistent pattern) to all of his patients that evidenced these short-term memory and learning disorders.
Now let's consider today's situation regarding early detection of the Alzheimer's disease process in an otherwise "healthy" person. Dr. J. Wesson Ashford has promoted that as the early Alzheimer's onset process advanced - it was either damaging nuerons as it reached pollutant levels, and/or was creating some consistent pattern of memory fitness reduction as it set in. This is a process that would be invisible to the victim as well as anyone around them.
Doctors are strapped with making "snapshot" diagnosis upon examination of a patient they may have never seen before - or certainly not for a period of time. At examination, the patient's vitil signs are recorded and added to their "baseline" (normal reading) records. Dr. Ashford feels that a patient's memory fitness baseline information could and should be part of each patient's vital sign baseline record information. And that is why the Alzheimer's LifePlan was constructed. The online population can now test their healthy memory fitness multiple times, and compare the results of tests taken over a period of time to establish a fairly accurate "normal" rating of memory fitness. Such a record will greatly improve the detection of any memory disorder, and position doctors "at-ready" to conduct clinical early Alzheimer's onset screening tests.
CLINICAL MEMORY ASSESSMENT AND EARLY ONSET DETECTION
Dr. Ashford has had great success in further developing in clinic memory assessment tests for early Alzheimer's onset, mild cognitive impairment diagnosis, and potential treatment response verification. Dr. Ashford's platforms are inexpensive when compared to something like brain imaging and his work to date provides promise of high probability accuracy.
Dr. Ashford currently leads a movement to implant in-clinic memory assessment testing as effective an early Alzheimer's onset detection. In research projects, Dr. Ashford's testing procedures have detected the early Alzheimer's condition five to eight years prior to the normal memory lapse/loss symptoms would be apparent to family members or an examining doctor.
The Neurological Disease Foundation will use the membership base of the Alzheimer's LifePlan online community, as a 10,000 individual research group as a validity study for Dr. Ashford's clinical early onset and Alzheimer's screening platforms.
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POPULATION MEMORY FITNESS TESTING AND ALZHEIMER'S PREVENTION
Alzheimer's awareness will promote prevention concepts to individuals - in the hopes they consult with their doctors and adopt healthy lifestyle habits that reduce the risks of them developing Alzheimer's disease. Any health and fitness program should include physical and mental fitness monitoring.
Exercising your brain reduces your chances of developing the disease because the learning process seems to "clear" the brain. Researchers are still looking in to this factor of Alzheimer's, but it is certain that brains that learn frequently throughout their lives - develop fewer Alzheimer's cases.
At any rate, having a tool in the hands of individuals that allowed them to exercise their brain while they were getting a valid snapshop of their brain's memory fitness - means the individual could supply their doctor with a record of their vital signs and memory fitness readings. Taken over a period of time and representing baseline vital sign and memory fitness testing results - this is information the doctor wouldn't otherwise have.
The Alzheimer's LifePlan Online Community promotes online memory fitness testing as part of the Alzheimer's LifePlan Workshop Programs. The workshop programs are now available here online - you're near the end of Workshop One - or approaching the end of the welcome workshop of a Community and Clinic Alzhiemer's LifePlan Workshop.
Now that you've seen individual's using the online memory fitness testing platform and particiapted in the online workshop - we can take a look at how this all works towards helping you prevent Alzheimer's disease.
At this point in the workshop experience -
You should begin to understand the logic behind adopting the Alzheimer's prevention lifestyle habits, and monitoring your vital signs and memory fitness. In fact, we hope you see the value of adopting your memory fitness test scores just like you monitor your blood pressure. Your memory fitness baseline (normal performance) is a vital sign of your brain's health!
Well until the Alzheimer's LifePlan testing your memory fitness and keeping records to share with your doctors was difficult to do. We have tried to make this easy for individuals to do.
This workshop has been designed to:
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Welcome visitors
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Share new information with them
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Allow the visitors to test their memory fitness
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Show the visitors how keeping track of their vital signs and memory fitness test results can give them valuable early memory disorder alerts
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Allow the visitor an easy way to build baseline information about their brain's health that they share with their doctors.
Memory Fitness Testing and Monitoring for Memory Disorders
The online workshops and services offered here include personal vital sign and memory fitness testing baseline record keeping accounts.
The workshop first introduces the attendee to the current medical and research information available regarding the prevention of and early detection Alzheimer's diseaes onset.
By now you should have a good understanding of these things, and anticipate taking your first memory fitness test.
Before you do, it would be beneficial if you viewed the video we used in our focus groups - to illustrate how individuals access the test as well as design and take tests.
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The Alzheimer's LifePlan Workshops Video
ACCESSING THE ALZHEIMER'S LIFEPLAN GUEST AND MEMBERS ACCOUNTS
If you click on Guest and Member Services Navigation bar (left hand margin of the page) you will enter the area where quests and members access the memory fitness testing as a vital sign service of the Memory Fitness Testing Center.
As a first time workshop attendee, we are going to assume that you haven't accessed the area. The animation below, illustrates how you can access the GUEST (username) and GUEST (password) account of the project.
Don't do anything in an attempt to go to the log-in page here - the animation is not interactive - you must have a Flash Media Player installed in your browser to view the tutorial. You can get a FLASH MEDIA PLAYER FOR FREE HERE.
How To Take A Memory Fitness Test
At this point in the Workshop it is imperitive to view "Test Instruction" at the Memory Fitness Testing Center
The Memory Fitness Testing Center's memory fitness testing service makes it extremely easy to disgn a test session, take a test, and immediately see the results.
The Alzheimer's LifePlan encourages everyone to frequently test their memory fitness and over time determine their baseline (normal) short term memory and learning performance rating.
There are no charges for using the GUEST account at the Memory Fitness Testing Center. Individuals wanting to create their personal accounts may do so for $10 a year.
What you will see in the Tutorial
ACCESSING MEMBERS AND GUEST SERVICES ACCOUNTS
If by chance you could not access the Memory Fitness Testing Center's Test Instruction tutorial - you would have learned that going to the Log-in Page of the center; and entering GUEST as your e-Mail address and GUEST as your Password - clicking on "Submit" - would gain you access to the public access test dashboard. Click here if you want to go to the Login-page.
The GUEST/GUEST account uses the same control panel as the personal $10 a year account members use - the only difference is that any and all test results from individual tests are stored in this one account's history. So, if you are trying to build a historic record of your testing results, be ready with a pen and paper or print our your screen images.
When you set a test session, you determine how many images will be shown in series during the test, what the duration time in seconds of exposure each image will appear, and which group of pictures you are using from the system's library.
When you click on the "Take the Test" button - the test you designed is loaded into your computer - at this point in the process the system is actually doing diagnosis on your computer, loading the test and giving you an "OK" when it is in the ready condition.
If everything is right between your computer and the system - you should see:
This "OK" graphic means your computer is set and ready to begin the test you designed.
Now, think about what will happen when you depress the spacebar. You will instantly see an image - it will be the first image of the test.
It will look something like this:
The First Image - Do nothing because image has not appeared before in this test - it's first remember?
In three seconds (because that is the time you set) - the next image will appear:
This is not a repeated image - so you do nothing.
After three seconds - the next image will appear.
This is not a repeated image either - so you do nothing.
A quick note here - The images are shuffled around in these tests. Some are of objects like these three have been - but they could be of letters, and words.
As you take more tests - especially if they in the same day or testing session - your brain will remember images they have taken from earlier tests - so you have to remind your brain that each test takes a snapshop of its ability to remember images within each test it is taking.
You'll get the hang of it.
The next image.
This is a repeat - Depress the Space Bar
As soon as you depress the space bar - the next image will appear:
Holy Cow! This is a repeat too! Depress the Space Bar
That is all you have to do while taking the test - it's fun, exciting, and also gives your brain a good workout!
After the last image of the test fades away, you'll get your test results data page.
You'll note this was a 26 image test - and I got 100%.
Any way you look at it, its not bad.
In fact, there is about 250,000 pieces of information presented here -just about my brain's ability to form short-term recall messages. One set of Test Results is a good thing - but in no way a diagnostic tool for Alzheimer's. What is of value here, is that you will learn how to design a test that is moderately challenging for your brain - and then take the test often.
Doing this over a period of time builds your brain's memory fitness - but it also builds a historic record of your brain's normal recent memory forming performance - a score if you will. If you keep this record and share it with your doctor or family members, you will have a reference to judge against future memory disorders - regardless of what they are.
If you go back to the "My Area", you'll see that next to the "Test" text box, there is a "View Your History" text box.
If you cursor over the "View Your History" box and click on it, you'll see the graphic baseline history of the GUEST GUEST 26 image memory fitness tests:
You can expect to see radical differences between the test results in this account - because like yourself, visitors here are learning the testing procedure. The test you just took will be located at the end of graph.
You will see the date, time, Picture Time setting (3 in this case), the percentage score and the "VIEW" button.
If you Click on the "VIEW" button your full Test Results for that specific test will come up. In this case it will be the same data you saw as you completed the test we took moments ago.
Click on "My Area" and you will be taken back to the GUEST/GUEST control panel - where you started the testing session.
What you have just experienced is testing your memory fitness as a vital sign. In this case it is similar to taking your blood pressure - only you are recording how effective your brain is at forming short term memories and/or learning new things.
Memory fitness and monitoring your baseline memory capacity is a pillar of Alzheimer's prevention.
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Frequent test building your memory fitness - it is mental exercise.
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Keeping a record of your memory vital sign provides a baseline "norm" that your doctor can use in determining if clinical memory assessment testing or early Alzheimer's onset screening tests should be conducted.
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At this point in your workshop experience -
You know more about Alzheimer's disease, memory fitness testing, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease than anyone living between 5000 BC and 1990 AD.
If you are attending a Community Workshop
Your host will now assist you in taking your vital sign readings and memory fitness testing, or share with you other areas of interest within the Alzheimer's LifePlan. If you want to know more about the Alzheimer's LifePlan Community Workshop Network - hopefully to affliate your community center or business into the network, please go here.
If you are attending a Clinical Support Workshop
The clinic's staff or doctor will discuss what we've covered here and assist you in starting your personal Alzheimer's LifePlan programs. If you want to tell you doctors about the Alzheimer's LifePlan or encourage them to affiliate their practice into the In-Clinic Support Service section of the program, have them go here.
Want To Take A Memory Fitness Test
If you have learned enough about Alzheimer's and want to experience taking your first memory fitness test - you can do here "GUEST and MEMBERSHIP" and you will taken to the landing page of the MEmory Fitness Testing Center - you will want to go to the "Log-In" area to access the GUEST/GUEST account. Or the "Sign-up" area to establish your $10 a year personal testing account. area.
Want to Learn More
In building the Alzheimer's LifePlan service enterprise - our reporters and producers went around the world - literally. We investigated anything holding promise, and when appropriate we met with and interviewed those individuals who had made progress in cracking the Alzheimer's disease code down - and building some valuable prevention or treatment to end Alzheimer's as we know it by the end of 2012.
All of the video's, linkage to, resources and services are available through the Alzheimer's LifePlan or End Alzheimer's 2012 Task Force web page operations.
The Alzheimer's LifePlan is a unique public service project. Funding for the Memory Fitness Testing Center, the iBHealth.net Health and disease prevention network, and the online Alzheimer's LifePlan operations were all from personal sources. The technology and enterprise platforms were contributed by The Internet Broadcasting Association.
Most of the available resources and services are available from the top of this page.
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