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Alzheimer's and diabetes may be related.

Alzheimer’s disease is usually thought of as affecting only the very elderly. Unfortunately, citizens who are too young to collect social security old age benefits are sometimes disabled by the dreaded Alzheimer’s disease.

If that happens, these disabled younger citizens are entitled to recover full social security disability insurance benefits. At the first indication that there may be a disability, application should be made for social security disability benefits.

Recently, medical research has indicated that there is reason to believe that the brain’s inability to properly process insulin may be related to Alzheimer’s disease.


A report by researchers at Northwestern University says that insulin may be as important to the mind as it is to the body. Weinburg College of Arts and Science neurobiology and physiology professor Dr. William Klein and his colleagues found that the inability of patients of Alzheimer’s to remember and those that suffer from type 2 diabetes may share a strong link.

It has been discovered by scientists why the insulin in the brain receiving signals (which is crucial for memory formation) may cease to work in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Over the past few years, research findings show that Alzheimer’s disease could possibly be a novel third form of diabetes.
The studies have shown that in the brain of individuals with Alzheimer’s, the insulin receptor is removed from the nerve cells by a toxic protein, this makes those neurons insulin resistant. Memory forming synapses are known to be attacked by this protein, known as amyloid derived diffusible ligand (ADDL). Other research has shown that in those with Alzheimer’s disease, the levels of brain insulin and related receptors are lower. This indicates relation with insulin resistance in the brain to diabetes.

Insulin and its receptors are vital for learning and memory in the brain.

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