Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains both a physician guide and a downloadable/printable patient ...

I have a special interest in Alzheimer’s disease. For nearly 25 years, I practiced general neurology in Portland, Oregon, and ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — Most treatments being pursued today to protect against Alzheimer's disease focus on amyloid plaques and tau tangles that accumulate in the brain, but new research points to a ...

Understanding dementia and Alzheimer’s disease is essential for maintaining a proactive approach to our well-being.

The number of Americans who will develop dementia—a progressive decline in memory, thinking skills, communication, and ...

It could also be given to patients whose families have a history of Alzheimer's, to prevent them developing the disease. The research by British, American and Canadian scientists, was being hailed ...

Cognitively normal people whose mothers had a history of dementia or significant memory impairment were more likely to have a higher burden of brain amyloid-beta involved in Alzheimer's disease ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ... it may trigger immune system changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease, according to the study, published in the journal ...

While there is no history of Alzheimer’s in my immediate ... between poor quality of sleep and an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Research in mice has shown that continued lack of ...

The search for answers to Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders remains one of the most pressing goals in brain research. Maciej J. Stawikowski, Ph.D., an assistant professor of ...

In those tissues, the researchers found lots of inflammation, newly formed plaques of sticky amyloid proteins, and all around them dying neurons — the signature marks of Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, affecting more than three million Americans per year. And while its exact cause is unknown, researchers may have just had a breakthrough.