A new study suggests that people with two copies of ApoE4, one of the largest genetic risk factors for Alzheimer’s, have more than double…
“We are looking for older volunteers with MCI or mild dementia due to AD or Lewy body dementia, and healthy older individuals, who wish…
More than a century after its discovery, Alzheimer’s disease still has no definitive cure, and hundreds of drugs and chemical trials have hit dead…
A new study published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS) links certain enzymes with degenerative brain diseases, which could mean scientists and drugmakers now…
The earlier we can diagnose Alzheimer’s, the better. This is why scientists are putting so much focus on the human eye. While the exact…
I should have known that there was a stigma that surrounds Alzheimer’s disease, because when I learned of my dad’s diagnosis, I felt like…
Scientists are confident that artificial intelligence can help us improve Alzheimer’s prediction and diagnosis — the question is exactly how. Around the world, researchers…
While pharmaceutical companies have invested decades of research and billions of dollars in the quest to cure to Alzheimer’s, more than 100 experimental therapies…
In the late 1890s, a railroad worker in Frankfurt Germany noticed that his wife, Auguste Deter, was behaving oddly. Gradually her anxiety and mood…
The Alzheimer’s gene, known as ApoE4, is one of the the largest genetic risk factors for later onset Alzheimer’s disease. Carrying one copy of the…
For decades, researchers have been searching for ways to combat the abnormal proteins that appear in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s. Despite their best…
A few years ago, I had a minor heart attack. I had persistent soreness in my upper left back and, on a whim, I…
Brain implants may sound like science fiction, but researchers have been working on ways to use implants to treat and monitor brain disorders for…
Targeting beta-amyloid protein before symptoms of cognitive decline or Alzheimer’s appear is the goal of one trial out of the National Institute on Aging…
In January 2020, few had heard of “COVID-19.” Only weeks later, it became an official word in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Its denotation, or its…