studiz - studycases : Breathe Insulin Can Help Restore Memory Alzheimer's Patients

studiz - healthy studycases : Breathe Insulin Can Help Restore Memory Alzheimer's Patients

Nasal spray insulin in patients suffering from early stage Alzheimer's disease can recover their memories, some researchers said the United States, Wednesday (14 / 7).

Patients who received care during the four months to show improvement in recent memory experiments performed over the past two months.

"We believe our results are very promising and they give a guarantee on future trials," said Dr. Suzanne Craft of the VA Puget Sound Health Care System and University of Washington in Seattle, who presented the findings at the Alzheimer's Association meeting in Honolulu.

Alzheimer's is a fatal disease that causes irreversible brain degeneration in people with 26 million people in the world. The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer's.

Several studies have shown that people with Alzheimer's have low insulin levels in the brain, even at the most initial stage. Insulin is important for communication among brain cells and is required for brain function.

Craft research teams to test what would happen if they were given insulin directly into the brain.

They studied 109 non-diabetic patients with early Alzheimer's disease or a condition called mild cognitive impairment.

One third of the patients getting a placebo and two-thirds received different doses of insulin in which the contents of the nebulizer and sprayed in their noses twice a day for four months.

Patients who received lower doses of insulin showed significant progress on all key measures of thinking and memory, and to test the ability of daily activities.

In 15 patients treated with insulin and approved inspection spinal fluid (spinal tap), the team found an association between memory improvement and progress in the size of a key protein associated with Alzheimer's disease.

Craft said that such treatment is far from being useful for patients, but the findings were strong enough to be studied in large clinical trials.

Alzheimer's drugs currently only deal with symptoms, but so far no medicine that can improve the memory of patients with Alzheimer's.