VOICES: Our Latest Lessons From Dementia Caregivers
By
Lauren Fetten
| October 1st, 2024
Being a caregiver to someone living with dementia is a role that many people take on with little or no prior experience with the…
Are Alzheimer’s Blood Tests Living Up to the Hype?
By
Simon Spichak, MSc
| September 30th, 2024
Getting an accurate Alzheimer’s diagnosis can take years — and several visits to the doctor. After taking a medical history, neurological exam, and blood tests…
Coffee & Alzheimer’s Disease: What’s the Verdict?
By
Simon Spichak, MSc
| September 27th, 2024
According to legend, Kaldi, an Ethiopian goat herder who lived more than 1000 years ago, noticed something curious about his goats: If they ate…
What is Anosognosia and Why Does it Matter in Dementia Care?
By
Katy Koop
| September 26th, 2024
Anosognosia is a neurological condition in which a person is unaware that they have a particular disease. For people living with Alzheimer’s disease and…
Flu Season: Here’s What Skipping the Flu Vaccine Does to Your Dementia Risk
By
Simon Spichak, MSc
| September 26th, 2024
Have you made that free flu shot appointment at your local pharmacy yet? The data shows that people who skip their flu shot had…
What Links Aging and Disease? Research Points to Metabolism
By
Melanie R. McReynolds
| September 26th, 2024
Aging is a biological process that no one can avoid. Ideally, growing old should be a time to relax and enjoy the fruits of…
Untreated Blood Pressure, Significantly Higher Alzheimer’s Risk
By
Simon Spichak, MSc
| September 25th, 2024
More than one billion adults worldwide have high blood pressure, but since it doesn’t often cause symptoms, half of them don’t even know they…
A Rutgers Neurologist’s Advice on Living With Long COVID
By
Katy Koop
| September 24th, 2024
More than one in 10 people who catch COVID don’t fully recover. Symptoms persist, and doctors call that chronic condition “long COVID.” Those symptoms may…
Dementia Biomarkers 101: What is Tau?
By
Simon Spichak, MSc
| September 20th, 2024
Maybe you’ve heard of amyloid plaques, which build up in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s. But there’s another protein biomarker in the mix:…
STUDY: Cholesterol, Vision Loss Drive Dementia Risk
By
Lisa Power
| September 19th, 2024
The Lancet Commission on dementia prevention and intervention, a global project that gets scientists to review the evidence for risk factors of dementia every few…
Mark Sennet: A Celebrity Photographer Turns His Lens to Alzheimer’s
By
Katy Koop
| September 18th, 2024
This article is part of the Journey to Diagnosis series, produced by Being Patient with support provided by Eli Lilly. For 25 years, Mark…
Athira’s Alzheimer’s Drug Fails in Later-stage Clinical Trial
By
Simon Spichak, MSc
| September 17th, 2024
Athira Pharma’s experimental Alzheimer’s drug fosgonimeton hit a speedbump on its way toward FDA approval: The treatment failed to show a clinical benefit in…
Genetic Testing and Alzheimer’s
By
Deborah Kan
| September 16th, 2024
UPDATE: The survey is now closed After I launched Being Patient, I learned there is a large population of people out there hungry for…
How 100 Years of EEG Have Transformed Neuroscience
By
Erika Nyhus
| September 13th, 2024
Electroencephalography, or EEG, was invented 100 years ago. In the years since the invention of this device to monitor brain electricity, it has had…
Oped: A Molecular Biologist on an Argument for Vaccines
By
Mark O'Brian, University of Buffalo
| September 12th, 2024
Vaccinations have provided significant protection for the public against infectious diseases. However, there was a modest decrease in support in 2023 nationwide for vaccine…