A new study from the Mayo Clinic shows that people with sleep apnea are more likely to have higher levels of the protein tau,…
We know there are differences in men and women’s brains that can translate to varied reactions to environmental, lifestyle and genetic factors. But a…
Scientists have developed a new blood test that could help diagnose and even predict Alzheimer’s disease in the latest research offering an alternative to…
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, found two major groups of genes tied to mutations that cause an overproduction of tau, a…
Inside your brain, there are 100 billion cells carrying out the daily tasks of keeping you alive and feeding you information: transmitting messages from…
What if a drug to press rewind on the damage Alzheimer’s causes already exists? That’s what researchers at Temple University asked when they gave…
Experimental drugs for Alzheimer’s disease have a 99.6 percent failure rate. Not such a great track record. But, according to an expert in the…
New advances in brain imaging have allowed scientists from Cambridge University to track how tau, a protein that accumulates in the brain in Alzheimer’s…
On the heels of recent Alzheimer’s drug failures by companies like Eli Lilly, Merck and Axovant, one pharmaceutical company is insisting there is a…
An animal study suggests that cells exposed to certain stressors can trigger Alzheimer’s pathology. Scientists have known for a long time that the accumulation…
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…
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…
Carrying the ApoE4 gene is known as the single largest risk factor for Alzheimer’s, besides age itself. The presence of ApoE4 has been found…
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…