Talk:Alzheimer's disease

I've just added a rewrite of the Introduction at Wikipedia. I happened to write the current-consensus intro there (as it was originally mostly 'technical' and as an editor I favour "general reader" language), so it was difficult for me to do it completely differently (which I'd have liked) - but I think I've made some language improvements though, going through it again. I've turned some of it into new sections, which will hopefully encourage further editing.

I've also added an "Alzheimer's in society" section with a few famous sufferer's names in it. --Matt Lewis 17:26, 26 March 2008 (CDT)

Curry?

There have been a number of things published about curry or tumeric and AD. The one I recall & was searching for claimed India and Pakistan had much lower rates of AD than other nations and scientists were looking for the reasons, with food as the prime suspect.

The one I found has a study showing effects in mice: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5436618/Curry-may-prevent-Alzheimers-disease-expert-says.html

Can someone who knows the area please look at this? Sandy Harris 04:34, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Aluminum?

There's also been much discussion of a putative link between aluminum and AD. A web search turns up sites which consider the linkage indisputable, others which label it speculative, and various positions between. One of the things I'd like an encyclopedia article to do for me is to clarify this. Sandy Harris 06:03, 2 September 2010 (UTC)