Poor sleep has long been linked to cognitive decline. A new study from Washington University Medical School in St. Louis has taken that link…
December 22, 2017 Scientists still aren’t sure what causes Alzheimer’s disease, though there are many theories—beta-amyloid, an accumulation of a type of protein in…
November 20, 2017 Research into healthy brains has helped scientists identify where things may be going wrong in patients with Alzheimer’s. Dr. Beth Stevens,…
New research shows that the brain’s ability to process glucose is linked with amyloid plaques and tau tangles, biomarkers of Alzheimer’s. A new study…
Researchers find the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s in the brain, paving the way for future research into the origins of the disease. For the…
November 1, 2017 Since Alzheimer’s was first diagnosed over 100 years ago, scientists have been probing and searching the brain for answers to why…
Until recently, scientists believed that only humans could develop the protein plaques that indicate Alzheimer’s. That changed in August, when a study showed that…
Why does Alzheimer’s happen to some, but not others? We know that certain factors like genetics and lifestyle are at play, but sometimes dementia…
A recent study discovered a gene that could be involved in the death of brain cells in Alzheimer’s. What happens to the brain in…
Scientists looking for a new Alzheimer’s treatment have traditionally focused on the build-up of protein deposits such as beta-amyloid and tau in patients’ brains….
September 28, 2017 Dr. Joanna Collingwood, Ph.D., a physicist at Warwick University in Coventry, England, leads a research team probing whether the iron particles…
Have you heard of the peanut butter Alzheimer’s test? The test, reported by University of Florida researchers in 2013, measured sense of smell in…
A new test to predict Alzheimer’s that analyzes several genes gives a better estimate of whether an adult will develop Alzheimer’s than testing for…
One of the things that makes Alzheimer’s disease so hard to treat is that scientists still don’t understand the basic biology behind what’s driving…
For decades, humans were thought to be the only species to develop Alzheimer’s disease. But in a study published this week in the journal…