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

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 novel -- and noble -- ...

Scientists have come up with a drug that is a potential candidate for tackling memory deficits in the early stages of the disease in rodents. Research shows that the drug activates the cannabinoid ...

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

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

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 ...

The risk of developing dementia in the United States is much higher than previously estimated, according to a new study ...

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 ...

There are an estimated 80,000 people living with Alzheimer’s disease in Connecticut. John Scully got to know just a few of those suffering from the disease, and for those he did meet, he learned how ...

Lactylation is a reversible, covalent, post-translational modification of proteins. It occurs exclusively on lysine residues, where it influences protein structure, stability, localization, 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 ...

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer A new study found a link between human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), a common type of herpes virus, ...