Individuals with dementia require care from a variety of health care providers, and interprofessional team care has been touted as being the most beneficial to…
The brain’s big-eating immune cells can slow down the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. This is shown by a study that is now published in Nature…
In a recent search for gene variants associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), several affected families showed a mutation in an enzyme called protein kinase C-alpha…
Two recent studies from the University of Eastern Finland show that educational background and previous traumatic brain injury may potentially affect the risk of frontotemporal…
Zooming in on a single disease and studying it intensely is often the most productive route to finding treatments. But there’s no easy way to…
A Cornell University-led collaboration has used machine learning to pinpoint the most accurate means and timelines for anticipating the advancement of Alzheimer’s disease in people…
Two new genes that raise a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s Disease have been discovered by researchers.
Researchers from the BU CTE Center have found that immune-related proteins could help differentiate between neurodegenerative diseases and provide additional candidates for biomarkers or new…
A risk score tool can accurately predict an individual’s 13-year dementia risk, according to a study published online Nov. 17 in JAMA Network Open.
When a baby is born, each cell in his or her body contains 23 pairs of chromosomes or 46 chromosomes in total, with half coming…