Nature Milestones are editorially independent, produced with financial support from third parties. About this content. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, affecting more than 50 ...

People with a history of Alzheimer’s disease on their mother’s side or both parents’ sides of the family had higher levels of amyloid plaques in their brains compared to those with fathers who had the ...

Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller, the first Black psychiatrist in the United States, contributed to early research on Alzheimer’s disease. - Boston University Photography Alzheimer’s disease is increasingly ...

CHICAGO — When she entered the field of Alzheimer’s research a quarter century ago, Lisa Barnes was deeply disappointed to find few Black people like her family members with dementia were being ...

Dementia is on the rise in the U.S., igniting urgency in brain health research. People with a genetic tendency for dementia who follow the Mediterranean diet may lower their dementia risk. Eat more ...

In 2022, neurologists at a memory clinic in China diagnosed a 19-year-old with what they believed to be Alzheimer's disease – ...

I’ve been reporting on Alzheimer’s disease for more than two decades, and any progress in the field has seemed incremental at best, leaving most patients and their loved ones with few options. But in ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

Dementia has been around since antiquity, but scientists identified Alzheimer’s as a brain disease only a century ago. Clues to its biology emerged slowly, and the field struggled. But discoveries ...