Whether enjoyed on its own or mixed into a latte, Americano or even a martini, espresso provides an ultra-concentrated jolt of caffeine to coffee lovers.…
Older adults who begin using opioid painkillers after a dementia diagnosis have a significantly greater risk of death—about 11-fold within the first two weeks, according…
A new study offers the first-ever county-level estimates of Alzheimer’s disease in the United States.
Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are vastly underrepresented in genetic research on dementia. Of the 45,000 participants in U.S. Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers, for example,…
Lewy body disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s disease. A research group from Lund University has now shown that the disease…
The findings of the first randomized controlled trial (RCT) of its kind involving nearly 1,000 older adults from multiple locations across the U.S., published in…
Today at the International Alzheimer’s Congress (AAIC) in Amsterdam, new guidelines for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease developed by clinicians and researchers from around the world were…
Two new studies using CRISPR gene editing offer potential new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.
Deaths among older adults with dementia fell starkly in nursing homes and long-term care centers after COVID-19 vaccinations became available, yet remained high for those…
A recent study from the lab of the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Director Linda Van Eldik, Ph.D., centers around the idea that…