When a 60-year-old tells her nurse she’s been forgetting things—a dinner night with friends, a neighbor’s name, or to call for a grandchild’s birthday, for…
A new imaging-based method could enable the early detection and differentiation of a wide variety of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the buildup of tau protein…
In Alzheimer’s disease, a protein (peptide) forms clumps in the brain and causes sufferers to lose their memory. In a recently published article, a research…
One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease is the formation of amyloid plaques—sticky clumps of a protein called amyloid beta—that collect between neurons in the…
A bank of comforting images to improve the wellbeing of the carers of people affected by dementia has been developed by Edinburgh researchers.
A new study suggests that it is possible to design drugs that can target a type of shape-shifting protein involved in Alzheimer’s disease, which was…
Transfers from the nursing home to the emergency department (ED) or the hospital can have negative longer-term impact on the health of older adults. A…
In a new study, a team of scientists based at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical…
There are concerns that exposure to general anesthesia during surgery may contribute to an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease. To investigate, researchers compared exposure to…
E-cigarette use among young people has fallen for the first time in Wales but declines in youth smoking have stalled, analysis from Cardiff University shows.