Scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have made a ‘paradigm shifting’ discovery on the mechanisms required for learning and memory that could…
Losing the activity of a key ion channel in the brain may contribute to the buildup of a devastating and toxic protein responsible for the…
The number one risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease is age, far more than genetics. Because of the aging of the U.S. population, there are currently…
Long-term exposure to one of the most prevalent types of air pollution may increase the risk of developing dementia, a debilitating neurological disease associated with…
Though drug developers have achieved some progress in treating Alzheimer’s disease with medicines that reduce amyloid-beta protein, other problems of the disease including inflammation, continue…
How much time elapses between a blow to the head and the start of damage associated with Alzheimer’s disease?
Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Tanz Center for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases have used novel techniques to uncover which subtypes of brain cells express…
Researchers led by the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, have examined how a dementia diagnosis impacts medication use patterns in older adults.
Cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) develops when neurons begin to die, which can be caused by inappropriate immune responses and excessive inflammation in…
A new dementia risk score, which draws on 11 mostly modifiable risk factors, identifies people at risk—from midlife onward—of developing the disease within the next…