The Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center (HIPRC) has created a new online resource to help older adults with cognitive impairment draw up a plan…
Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder that causes neurons to die, slowly destroying memory and thinking skills. It’s the most common type of dementia, impacting…
The number of elderly suffering from Alzheimer’s disease has been rapidly rising over the past decades. For a long time, scientists believed that misfolded aggregates…
Could the way a senior handles his or her money offer clues about their risk for Alzheimer’s disease?
Previous studies have looked for links between glaucoma—a neurodegenerative disorder that’s the leading cause of irreversible blindness—and cognitive function, but they’ve generated mixed results. Findings…
Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases are associated with inflammatory processes in the brain. German researchers have succeeded in identifying a group of proteins in…
A breakthrough in our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease has revealed changes to blood vessels in the brain, potentially presenting a path for developing new drugs…
The research uses machine learning technology to look at structural features within the brain, including in regions not previously associated with Alzheimer’s. The advantage of…
An experimental Alzheimer’s drug called crenezumab did not prevent or slow mental decline in patients with a genetic mutation that greatly raises the risk of…
To help protect older adults from financial exploitation, researchers are working to understand who is most at risk. New findings from the Keck School of…