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Alzheimer's Centenary - November 3. 1906 to November 3, 2006
It was 100 years ago today that Dr. Alzheimer presented conclusive evidence and accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. He would have loved to be at the university in Tugingen and visit with the 181 scientists, researchers, and doctors who now hold many answers to this evasive disease of the mind......
Join us as we report the progress
November 3, 1906 - November 3, 2006 - November 3, 2012
On November 3, 1906, Dr. Alois Alzheimer traveled to the university city of Tubingen, Germany; presenting his first accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Alzheimer presented notes and microscopic slides revealing the "plaques and tangles" of the patient August B autopsied brain - the first patient to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
On November 3, 2006, the Alzheimer's world paused and 181 of the leading researchers, scientists and doctors gathered in the university city of Tubingen - to review the progress made in developing effective treatments for Alzheimer's disease.
One of the featured speakers at the Alzheimer's Centenary event, is Dr. Dale Schenk, PhD., the neuroscientist who first developed a beta-amyloid compound which functioned like a vaccine in preventing the disease process onset in laboratory mice. In clinical trials (human), an early form of the vaccine has been recognized as the first medication that to alter the disease pathology. A later generation of the vaccine is in clinical trials now. Alzheimer's Association PDF Data File on AN-1792 - Alzheimer's Vaccine.
Below are two video presentions regarding Dr. Schenk's development of the Alzheimer's Vaccine, and the "Great Debate" which continues about immunetherapythe vaccine has stirred.
If you need a free Windows Media Player to view these programs - you can get it here.
Dr. Schenk's Observations
This 12 minute interview contains Dr. Schenk's candid remarks explaining how he first speculated that the body's immune and antibody defense mechanisms could be prompted to clear the amyloid plaque buildups of Alzheimer's diseased brains.
Nueroscience "Great Debate"
This one hour debate was produced at Neuroscinece 2004, and contains pro and con arguments about the role compounds like the Alzheimer's vaccine can and should play in treatment and continued research.
Follow The Alzhiemer's Centenary Activities
November 3, 2006 In Tubingen German
We have offered to broadcast and/or distribute the video taped speakers, and events that happen at the German government's sponosred Alzheimer's Centenary Meeting.
Stay tuned for reports from our doctors and researchers speaking and in attendance.
Alzheimer: 100 Years and Beyond
centenary meeting november 2-5, 2006
tübingen, germany
On November 3, 1906 Alois Alzheimer travelled to the university city of Tübingen, Germany to present an unusual case of dementia. Auguste D. would become known as the first documented case of Alzheimer's disease (AD) - a disorder of the brain's nerve cells that impairs memory, cognition and behavior. AD is widely known today as the most common form of dementia, which currently affects about 20 million people worldwide. Alois Alzheimer described the pathological characteristics of the disease in the auditorium of the Clinic for Psychiatry at the University of Tübingen, the same location where we will mark this milestone's 100- year anniversary on November 2-5, 2006.
This historic event will begin in the evening of November 2 with an opening session for the public. November 3 will be a retrospective day featuring «pioneers» who contributed to AD research over the last 100 years. On November 4, leading scientists will present in the morning «current concepts in AD research» and will discuss in the afternoon the most important «challenges for the new century of AD research». Attendees of the meeting will have the possibility to look at the original histological sections through the microscope of Alois Alzheimer, and the way they were projected. On November 5, there will be the possibility to visit Marktbreit, the charming birthplace of Alois Alzheimer where his life and tremendous scientific work can be appreciated. Because of space limitations in these historic buildings, the meeting must be limited to 200 people.
To mark this historic event, a well documented book about the achievements in AD research from 1906-2006 with an outlook into the new century will be published at the time of the symposium.
We expect significant media attention from Germany and abroad in response to this symposium. The meeting has also been selected as one of the «365 Places in the Land of Ideas», a project organised by the German government on the occasion of the 2006 Football World Championship in Germany. The AD centenary meeting will serve as a powerful retrospective as well as a forward-reaching gathering of experts, and will also provide an opportunity to promote awareness and funding of AD research and related neurodegenerative disease into the next century. In Germany and most other industrialized societies the number of people over 65 years of age is projected to increase 25-30% by 2030 with a dramatic increase in the incidence of age-related neurodegenerative diseases - making research and political awareness for the expected social and economical burden more essential than ever before.
Such a meeting requires substantial logistic and financial support. We already have the support of the Ipsen Foundation in Paris who are also instrumental in organizing the event. Morever, we receive support from the Breuer Foundation and Hertie Foundation in Frankfurt, the German Research Foundation, and various other donators, whose contributions are greatly appreciated. We are, however, looking for additional help to support this special event.
The Alzheimer's LifePlan and Population Participation in Alzheimer's Research
In the 100 years of Alzheimer's treatment development research - there has never been a study to track the individual's who practice Alzheimer's prevention lifestyle habits.
The members of the Alzheimer's LifePlan online community are each maintaining their personal Alzheimer's prevention program. They are:
With their doctors, developing lifesytle habits that support their brain's health more than the disease process.
Regularly taking the same memory fitness test and recording the results over time - establishing an average or "baseline" memory fitness rating.
Regularly taking their vital signs and recording them over a period of time - establishing goals in low blood pressure, low cholesterol, low fat and sugar intake, 8 hours of sleep every night - keeping a record of their prevention lifestyle program progress.
As the group maintains their vital sign and memory fitness baseline portfolios, the incidents of Alzheimer's disease cases that come up, will be compared (by ratio) to the population's disease cases.
The Memory Assessment Project (MAP)
Individual's from the group (10,000) will also be selected as the study group for the Neurological Diseae Foundations Memory Assessment Project (MAP). This project will be a validity study - confirming the effectiveness of Dr. J. Wesson Ashford's clinical memory assessment and early Alzheimer's onset detection platforms.
Membership Accounts
The members of the Alzheimer's LifePlan online community, have each paid $50 to join. The membership fee establishes the individual's account through 2012. Meaning, the member will be allocated a personal vital sign and memory fitness testing baseline record management account.
Create Your Personal Alzheimer's LifePlan Alzheimer's Prevention Account
After 100 years of research - there is no cure in sight for Alzheimer's disease.
In this interactive web page, we present reports taken from the Alzheimer's LifePlan television specials. In 2000, the global community of researchers, doctors, treatment developers, and drug companies collectively reviewed all research and statistical data regarding situations were lowered numbers of Alzheimer's cases developed in clinical trials. The findings were astonding. As an overview, the evidence clearly showed that self regulated lifestyle treatments, proper diet and exercise (mental and physical) regimens, frequent memory fitness testing and baseline score monitoring for memory fitness reduction - not only reduced an individual's chances of developing the disease but greatly improved their opportunities of early onset detection and aggressive treatment implementation.
Most concerned were stating that the best available treatment was prevention. Out of context, they were admitting that "treating" the Alzheimer's condition was best done by healthy individual's adopting anti-degenerative disease lifestyle habits into their day-to-day living. They were also promoting that the population (individuals) take the lead on maintaining their personal Alzheimer's Prevention programs with their doctor's support.
A group of dedicated doctors, researchers, broadcasting specialists, and cognitive engineers committed to building what is now the Alzheimer's LifePlan interactive public service platform (this web page). The program centers on giving millions of people online access to news, information about prevention and treatment development, free memory fitness testing, and an opportunity to take the programs and services to others.
Statistically, half of the over 80 population does not have any early Alzheimer's disease process onset and will not develop the disease process as they age.
This fact drove our group to study why half of the American population does not develop Alzheimer's. The first individual's who where over 80 and not showing any sign of mild cognitive impairment (early memory loss symptoms) where my parents. Both have had parents, brothers and sisters who have passed with dementia or Alzheimer's. Both have lived longer than any of their parents or immediate family did. We found that their lifestyle habits, exercise and diet progams, matched many of the prevention treatments Dr. J. Wesson Ashford had been promoting since 1985. We designed online memory fitness testing programs that would allow my parents to be assisted in using the online computers of my sister and brother-in-law. In essence, my parents were the first focus group and test pilots of the entire Alzheimer's LifePlan online and in community workshop programs.
If you attend a First Visit Online Workshop, you will follow my parents and family through the program and see the free availalble services. You will also see that there are membership services offered. These are valuable to individuals who decide to monitor their fitness and prevention programs, frequently test their memory fitness, and keep all their vital sign readings and memory fitness test histories in their personal records account. The personal records account makes it easier to share your program with friends, family members, and most importantly your doctors. A member can access their account while visiting their doctor, or print out their personal histories and leave them with their doctor as part of their vital sign and memory fitness baseline information. The personal record program is well worth the $50 membership fee, and also opens a number of opportunities to the member that are exclusive. The membership places an individual as a participant in the Alzheimer's LifePlan Online Community, and there are exciting activities ahead as this group works with the researchers and treatment developers to finally reverse the trends of Alzheimer's disease onset.
Of greatest importance is that news and information regarding the healthy lifestyle habits people can adopt, training of individual's memory fitness testing, and couching individuals and doctors to work as an early detection team - are always free here. The Alzheimer's LifePlan offers news and information, training in personal memory fitness testing, access to community workshop programs to anyone for free.
Individuals can join the Alzheimer's LifePlan online community and establish their personal vital sign/memory fitness baseline record management service by paying a one time $50 Membership fee. Members are on the inside and have personal prevention program, memory fitness testing, baseline information records with report generators so they can share progress with their doctors - as well as invitations to participate in research projects and online community activities going forward.
Community centers, businesses, or individuals can create local Alzheimer's LifePlan Workshop programs - where they host meetings and support sessions for individuals who need assistance in using the online value added network services available through this web page portal.
Doctors can provide access to online news, information, and online workshops in their waiting rooms. Affiliation into the Alzheimer's LifePlan Clinical Support network, allows the doctor to open 100 patient's personal memberships in the Alzheimer's LifePlan online community. Behind the scenes, with affiliation the doctors can continue their medical education with programs driven by the Neurological Disease Foundation and partake in research seminars, debates and special reports produced by the Alzheimer's LifePlan.
Collectively if millions learn about the healthy lifestyle habits that reduce their risk of developing Alzheimer's - millions of Alzheimer's cases would not develop. If those same millions learned how to test their short-term memory and learning performance capacities (memory fitness), and took a series of these tests noting their average scores over time: they would have baseline memory fitness histories they could share with their doctors. Members of the Alzheimer's LifePlan Online Community establish their personal vital sign and memory fitness testing history record account and produce such reports. If they are working with their doctors, they will have an early detection screening program in place whenever the individual's memory fitness testing results indicate there is a reduction in performance. Early detection is essential if the FDA approved treatments that slow the early stage memory loss symptoms are most effective.
It is not a complex plan.
Learn about Alzheimer's and healthy Lifestyle habits.
Learn about memory fitness testing.
Collaborate with your doctor and settle on an Alzheimer's Prevention Program.
Frequently record your vital signs with your memory fitness testing scores in a report you can share with your doctor.
Watch for any reduction in your memory fitness testing scores - and have an aggressive early onset treatment stragegy.
The rest is up to you
Attend your First Visit Online Workshop
Click on the Alzheimer's LifePlan Logo Below - To go to PayPal and Join the Online Community.
Create Your Personal Alzheimer's LifePlan Alzheimer's Prevention Account
In the 100 years of Alzheimer's treatment development research - there has never been a study to track the individual's who practice Alzheimer's prevention lifestyle habits.
The members of the Alzheimer's LifePlan online community are each maintaining their personal Alzheimer's prevention program. They are:
With their doctors, developing lifesytle habits that support their brain's health more than the disease process.
Regularly taking the same memory fitness test and recording the results over time - establishing an average or "baseline" memory fitness rating.
Regularly taking their vital signs and recording them over a period of time - establishing goals in low blood pressure, low cholesterol, low fat and sugar intake, 8 hours of sleep every night - keeping a record of their prevention lifestyle program progress.
As the group maintains their vital sign and memory fitness baseline portfolios, the incidents of Alzheimer's disease cases that come up, will be compared (by ratio) to the population's disease cases.
The Memory Assessment Project (MAP)
Individual's from the group (10,000) will also be selected as the study group for the Neurological Diseae Foundations Memory Assessment Project (MAP). This project will be a validity study - confirming the effectiveness of Dr. J. Wesson Ashford's clinical memory assessment and early Alzheimer's onset detection platforms.
Membership Accounts
The members of the Alzheimer's LifePlan online community, have each paid $50 to join. The membership fee establishes the individual's account through 2012. Meaning, the member will be allocated a personal vital sign and memory fitness testing baseline record management account.
Create Your Personal Alzheimer's LifePlan Alzheimer's Prevention Account
After 100 years of research - there is no cure in sight for Alzheimer's disease.
In this interactive web page, we present reports taken from the Alzheimer's LifePlan television specials. In 2000, the global community of researchers, doctors, treatment developers, and drug companies collectively reviewed all research and statistical data regarding situations were lowered numbers of Alzheimer's cases developed in clinical trials. The findings were astonding. As an overview, the evidence clearly showed that self regulated lifestyle treatments, proper diet and exercise (mental and physical) regimens, frequent memory fitness testing and baseline score monitoring for memory fitness reduction - not only reduced an individual's chances of developing the disease but greatly improved their opportunities of early onset detection and aggressive treatment implementation.
Most concerned were stating that the best available treatment was prevention. Out of context, they were admitting that "treating" the Alzheimer's condition was best done by healthy individual's adopting anti-degenerative disease lifestyle habits into their day-to-day living. They were also promoting that the population (individuals) take the lead on maintaining their personal Alzheimer's Prevention programs with their doctor's support.
A group of dedicated doctors, researchers, broadcasting specialists, and cognitive engineers committed to building what is now the Alzheimer's LifePlan interactive public service platform (this web page). The program centers on giving millions of people online access to news, information about prevention and treatment development, free memory fitness testing, and an opportunity to take the programs and services to others.
Statistically, half of the over 80 population does not have any early Alzheimer's disease process onset and will not develop the disease process as they age.
This fact drove our group to study why half of the American population does not develop Alzheimer's. The first individual's who where over 80 and not showing any sign of mild cognitive impairment (early memory loss symptoms) where my parents. Both have had parents, brothers and sisters who have passed with dementia or Alzheimer's. Both have lived longer than any of their parents or immediate family did. We found that their lifestyle habits, exercise and diet progams, matched many of the prevention treatments Dr. J. Wesson Ashford had been promoting since 1985. We designed online memory fitness testing programs that would allow my parents to be assisted in using the online computers of my sister and brother-in-law. In essence, my parents were the first focus group and test pilots of the entire Alzheimer's LifePlan online and in community workshop programs.
If you attend a First Visit Online Workshop, you will follow my parents and family through the program and see the free availalble services. You will also see that there are membership services offered. These are valuable to individuals who decide to monitor their fitness and prevention programs, frequently test their memory fitness, and keep all their vital sign readings and memory fitness test histories in their personal records account. The personal records account makes it easier to share your program with friends, family members, and most importantly your doctors. A member can access their account while visiting their doctor, or print out their personal histories and leave them with their doctor as part of their vital sign and memory fitness baseline information. The personal record program is well worth the $50 membership fee, and also opens a number of opportunities to the member that are exclusive. The membership places an individual as a participant in the Alzheimer's LifePlan Online Community, and there are exciting activities ahead as this group works with the researchers and treatment developers to finally reverse the trends of Alzheimer's disease onset.
Of greatest importance is that news and information regarding the healthy lifestyle habits people can adopt, training of individual's memory fitness testing, and couching individuals and doctors to work as an early detection team - are always free here. The Alzheimer's LifePlan offers news and information, training in personal memory fitness testing, access to community workshop programs to anyone for free.
Individuals can join the Alzheimer's LifePlan online community and establish their personal vital sign/memory fitness baseline record management service by paying a one time $50 Membership fee. Members are on the inside and have personal prevention program, memory fitness testing, baseline information records with report generators so they can share progress with their doctors - as well as invitations to participate in research projects and online community activities going forward.
Community centers, businesses, or individuals can create local Alzheimer's LifePlan Workshop programs - where they host meetings and support sessions for individuals who need assistance in using the online value added network services available through this web page portal.
Doctors can provide access to online news, information, and online workshops in their waiting rooms. Affiliation into the Alzheimer's LifePlan Clinical Support network, allows the doctor to open 100 patient's personal memberships in the Alzheimer's LifePlan online community. Behind the scenes, with affiliation the doctors can continue their medical education with programs driven by the Neurological Disease Foundation and partake in research seminars, debates and special reports produced by the Alzheimer's LifePlan.
Collectively if millions learn about the healthy lifestyle habits that reduce their risk of developing Alzheimer's - millions of Alzheimer's cases would not develop. If those same millions learned how to test their short-term memory and learning performance capacities (memory fitness), and took a series of these tests noting their average scores over time: they would have baseline memory fitness histories they could share with their doctors. Members of the Alzheimer's LifePlan Online Community establish their personal vital sign and memory fitness testing history record account and produce such reports. If they are working with their doctors, they will have an early detection screening program in place whenever the individual's memory fitness testing results indicate there is a reduction in performance. Early detection is essential if the FDA approved treatments that slow the early stage memory loss symptoms are most effective.
It is not a complex plan.
Learn about Alzheimer's and healthy Lifestyle habits.
Learn about memory fitness testing.
Collaborate with your doctor and settle on an Alzheimer's Prevention Program.
Frequently record your vital signs with your memory fitness testing scores in a report you can share with your doctor.
Watch for any reduction in your memory fitness testing scores - and have an aggressive early onset treatment stragegy.
The rest is up to you
Attend your First Visit Online Workshop
Click on the Alzheimer's LifePlan Logo Below - To go to PayPal and Join the Online Community.
Create Your Personal Alzheimer's LifePlan Alzheimer's Prevention Account
