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We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.

~Aaron Ciechanover

Topics: Along Alzheimer Brain Cancer Collecting Diseases Heart Like Living Longer Only Others Paying Price Way

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People's genes can say a great deal about their health. There are genes that reveal an increased likelihood of getting cancer, heart disease or Alzheimer's.

~Adam Cohen

Topics: About Alzheimer Cancer Deal Disease Genes Getting Great Great Deal Health Heart Heart Disease Increased Likelihood People Reveal Say

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People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Alzheimer Been Case Different First First Time Happy Her Life Mother People She Somebody Terrible Think Time Tragedy Unhappy

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I started out as a neurologist. I then trained in neuropathology and was focused on neurodegeneration. So, for years, I studied Alzheimer's, aging, Parkinson's, that kind of thing.

~Ann Mckee

Topics: Aging Alzheimer Focused Kind Neurologist Out Parkinson Started Studied Then Thing Trained Years

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Some genetic variants can be informative about one's risk for Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

~Anne Wojcicki

Topics: About Alzheimer Disease Genetic Informative Parkinson Risk Some

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Traditionally, when you talk to people who have Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, they'll talk about how they're in five or six studies, and they've been sequenced by each study. That's just fat in the system. Just have a single data set that then you can share. You can make the entire system more efficient.

~Anne Wojcicki

Topics: About Alzheimer Been Data Each Efficient Entire Fat Five How Just Make More Parkinson People Set Share Single Six Studies Study System Talk Then Who You

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If I know I'm at genetically high risk of Alzheimer's, maybe I don't plan to retire at 80, and maybe I'm more proactive about where I'm going to live and who's going to take care of me.

~Anne Wojcicki

Topics: About Alzheimer Care Genetically Going High Know Live Maybe Me More Plan Proactive Retire Risk Take Take Care Where

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I originally got very interested in memory in high school when my grandmother came to live with us. She had been diagnosed with dementia. It was the first time I had heard the word 'Alzheimer's disease.'

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Alzheimer Been Came Dementia Diagnosed Disease First First Time Got Grandmother Had Heard High High School Interested Live Memory Originally School She Time Us Very Word

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There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.

~Aubrey De Grey

Topics: Accept Actually Afflict Ageing Alzheimer Any Arthritis Bad Better Cancer Disease Elderly Get Gracefully Just Meet Other People Thing Things Want Who You

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As life expectancy extends beyond 80 years in some parts of the world, more people are struggling with brain diseases. For older people, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other conditions become a major impediment to quality of life.

~Bill Maris

Topics: Alzheimer Become Beyond Brain Conditions Diseases Expectancy Impediment Life Life Expectancy Major More More People Older Older People Other Parkinson Parts People Quality Quality Of Life Some Struggling World Years

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