Wednesday, April 29, 2009

The Memory Loss Tapes

Announcement.

Subscribers to the Alzheimer's Reading Room can now obtain a free, complimentary, copy of the Memory Loss Tapes from HBO.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

The Alzheimer's Project DVD -- Free Copy

Follow the link to the Alzheimer's Reading Room to obtain your free copy of the DVD.
Subscribers to the Alzheimer's Reading Room can now obtain a free copy of The Alzheimer's Project.
I don't know about you, but I am really looking forward to viewing this documentary. I am an HBO subscriber and they really do a great job with all their entertainment. I am very confident we will be smiling, and crying, as we watch this documentary.
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Monday, April 20, 2009

The Alzheimer's Project How to Get it on DVD -- HBO

I am getting bombarded with emails asking me how to get HBO's The Alzheimer's Project if you don't have HBO.
There is good news. HBO is offering the Alzheimer's Project on DVD and in book form. You can order it now, but it won't ship until June 2.
To order a copy of the DVD -- The Alzheimer's Project -- go here.
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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Researchers link cocoa flavanols to improved brain blood flow

In a scientific study of healthy, older adults ages 59 to 83, Harvard medical scientists found that study participants who regularly drank a cocoa flavanol-rich beverage made using the Mars, Incorporated Cocoapro® process had an eight percent increase in brain blood flow after one week, and 10 percent increase after two weeks.
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60 Minutes Cold Fusion (Video and Text)

Twenty years ago it appeared, for a moment, that all our energy problems could be solved. It was the announcement of cold fusion - nuclear energy like that which powers the sun - but at room temperature on a table top. It promised to be cheap, limitless and clean. Cold fusion would end our dependence on the Middle East and stop those greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. It would change everything.
"We can yield the power of nuclear physics on a tabletop. The potential is unlimited. That is the most powerful energy source known to man," researcher Michael McKubre told 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley.
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The Alzheimer's Project -- HBO

  1. The Memory Loss Tapes -- Sunday, May 10 at 9 PM
  2. Grandpa, Do You Know Who I Am? -- Monday, May 11 at 7:30 PM
  3. Momentum in Science -- Monday, May 11 at 8 PM
  4. Caregivers -- Tuesday, May 12 at 7 PM
  5. Momentum in Science, Part 2 --Tuesday, May 12 at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. EST
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Saturday, April 11, 2009

Maria Shriver “Grandpa, Do You Know Who I Am?" (HBO)

“Grandpa, Do You Know Who I Am? With Maria Shriver” is geared toward children and young teens coping with a grandparent’s illness, and presents vignettes that can help a child understand and deal with a relative’s gradual decline into Alzheimer’s.
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