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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

For decades, scientists have been trying to develop therapeutics for people living with Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive ...

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 ...