Research on Down syndrome and Alzheimers disease continues its advance.

-el Dr. Javier García Alba, Professor in the Department of evolutionary psychology and of education of the Faculty of education (UCM) points to the importance of having test for cognitive assessments of persons with Down’s syndrome

Madrid, 2011-September last and recent studies in the period 2009-2011 by different research teamssome of the own Foundation syndrome of Down from Madrid (FSDM), have led to a series of advances in knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease in people with Down syndrome.

As explained by Dr. García Alba, there are signs of presence of the neuropathology of from relatively early stage Alzheimer’s disease in Down syndrome. However, this does not mean that all people with Down Syndrome will necessarily present the disease clinic.

It has also clarified that it had noted that there is a greater number of people with Alzheimer’s disease affected Down syndrome and early onset ”. However, there are discrepancies in the percentages of people with Down syndrome suffer from this disease. These discrepancies are related to the possibility of issuing false diagnoses. In this sense, García Alba has pointed out that the cognitive impairment that can occur when some people do not always is due to the effects of Alzheimer’s disease, since there are other pathologies involving such impairment ”.

The conclusions drawn from recent studies include: the interest in creating evidence to make good Diagnostics and detect early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, as well as the line of genetic research to discover new drugs, with the effect of delaying the progression of the disease and mitigate its symptoms in cognitive impairment.

For its part, the Foundation syndrome of Down in Madrid (FSDM) maintains the support total ” in relation to the projects and studies carried out to advance research on Down syndrome.

The syndrome Madrid Down Foundation (FSDM) was established in 1989 as a not-for-profit entity whose mission is: promote, develop and promote all kinds of activities aimed at the full family, school, employment and social integration of persons with intellectual disabilities and Down syndrome in order to improve the quality of life of this group and their families.