Nearly two-thirds of Americans diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease are women, and they often experience faster cognitive decline than men. The reasons behind this sex gap…
After decades of unsuccessful research, two new drugs and a pioneering blood test have recently given Alzheimer’s patients hope of fighting back against the debilitating…
Vascular dementia—cognitive impairment caused by disease in the brain’s small blood vessels—is a widespread problem, but it has not been as thoroughly studied as Alzheimer’s…
A multidisciplinary team has used advanced imaging and computational modeling to analyze the “crosstalk” between neurons and their supporting glial cells in the human brain.…
Thousands of people with dementia are prescribed powerful medications for longer and at higher doses than recommended, raising concerns about safety and quality of care,…
Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Eskenazi Health, Regenstrief Institute and other partners have demonstrated the feasibility of conducting dementia prevention trials among…
A new study suggests that physical frailty may contribute to the development of dementia. The study was published in Neurology.
In a study led by Lund University and the Amsterdam University Medical Center, researchers used PET to analyze aggregates of tau pathology in more than…
A University of Houston researcher found that recording brain activity while a person listens to a story may help diagnose primary progressive aphasia, a rare…
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is on track to become one of the defining public health challenges of our time. Every three seconds, somewhere in the world,…