THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:

"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Thom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied within seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not?

"LATE FOR THE SKY"(Jackson Browne)

"OBVIOUSLY,THE SOLUTION IS NOT TO GROW OLD"

For there be dragons.Depths of forgetfulness

that make mild eccentricities look like children's toys.

Past 80,and you get LATE(limbic-predominant. age-related TDP 43 encephalopathy...

200 causes for the common cold-why only one diagnosis for dementia?

Look out for proteinaceous glop!And clumps of protein called TAU!

And if your genes allow you to live way past 80-

do not be LATE!

Scientists Find Another Kind of Dementia

It's called LATE, and it erodes memory

By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff Posted May 13, 2019 10:35 AM CDT

(Newser) – Call it good news/bad news: What looks like Alzheimer's disease might not be Alzheimer's at all. But it is a form of dementia that's been overlooked until now, Quartz reports. New research published in Brain has identified LATE, or limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy, a memory-eroding disease that usually moves slower than Alzheimer's and appears only after age 80. It may also be more common than Alzheimer's for that age group and makes decline worse when the two diseases exist together, CNN reports. But their effect on the brain is quite different: "These age-related dementia diseases are frequently associated with proteinaceous glop," says lead study 

The glops in Alzheimer's brains are oddly shaped amyloid plaques and clumps of proteins called tau; in LATE, they're TDP-43 proteins. Doctors don't know why they become misshapen, but they're working on it—and say the find is part of separating Alzheimer's from other forms of dementia and preventing misdiagnosis. "More than 200 different viruses can cause the common cold," Nelson tells Psych Central. "So why would we think there is just one cause of dementia?" The goal now, he says, is to develop LATE-specific treatments that might reveal why many Alzheimer's drugs have failed in clinical trials. Until then, we're grappling with a disease that "has an expanding but under-recognized impact on public health," per the study. (Read more dementia stories.)