Researchers have looked at the connection between physical activity, or being in good physical shape, and brain health. The study, which has been published in…
A group of researchers in the lab of Prof. Lucía Chávez Gutiérrez (VIB-KU Leuven) has unraveled the genetic contributions to familial Alzheimer’s Disease development and…
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that impaired glucose metabolism in glial cells, a type of cell in our nervous system, plays a key…
Researchers at Tulane University have created a first-of-its-kind subcellular map of an area of the brain commonly affected by Alzheimer’s disease, a key step toward…
An estimated 7.2 million Americans aged 65 years and older are living with Alzheimer’s dementia, and almost all adults feel it is important to diagnose…
A team of researchers at Cornell University has made a discovery in fruit flies that could change the way we understand brain diseases like Alzheimer’s…
The common cold sore virus, which is often caught in childhood, usually stays in the body for life—quietly dormant in the nerves. Now and then,…
An international collaboration led by the University of Gothenburg report that cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers associated with Alzheimer’s pathology—specifically β-amyloid and tau proteins—are also present in…
Difficulty finding words or the habit of substituting them with others that are similar semantically—such as knife and cutter—or phonologically—such as knife and wife—are usually…
People whose biological age is higher than their chronological age may be more likely to develop dementia than people whose biological age matches or is…