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 -- ...

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

His choice to serve as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Dr. Mehmet Oz, has frequently referred to his mother’s Alzheimer’s disease and that experience ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

obtaining information about the patient's risk profile for AD or a related disease (e.g., age, family history of dementia, hypertension, smoking); describing the history of symptoms and their ...

Learn how long men and women tend to live after a dementia diagnosis and why the time of nursing home admission is a crucial ...