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 ...

The risk of developing dementia may be double what was previously thought. But there are things the U.S. can do to help fight ...

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 ...

The geographic and racial diversity of the sample helped underscore the risk inequities: Black people, women and carriers of a gene variant called APOE4 that’s linked to 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 ...

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.

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 ...