In a study led by Honghuang Lin, Ph.D., professor of medicine and co-director of the Program in Digital Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School, researchers…
In May of 2024, Mayo Clinic launched a new prion test, RT-QuIC Prion, CSF, which can distinguish prion disease from other causes of rapidly progressive…
Online tests of women’s reaction times offer insights into cognitive function and could help fill data gaps on early cognitive problems, potentially shedding light on…
A new review has found evidence that music-based therapy may benefit people living with dementia, particularly by improving symptoms of depression. The work has been…
Researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington and the University of California–San Francisco have used a new brain-mapping technique to identify memory-related brain cells…
Repeated sessions of electrical stimulation to brain networks associated with memory improved verbal learning in some Alzheimer’s disease patients for up to eight weeks in…
Alzheimer’s treatment may lie in the brain’s own cleanup crew: Harnessing microglia to clear plaques
For more than three decades, scientists have been racing to stop Alzheimer’s disease by removing amyloid beta plaques—sticky clumps of toxic protein that accumulate in…
Hearing loss is very common in older adults, with almost 60% aged 60 years and over experiencing disabling (moderate or greater) hearing loss.
Elevated levels of p-tau 181 and 217 in cerebrospinal fluid are considered to reflect early Alzheimer’s disease pathology. However, biomarker detection, which is now part…
A new study by Mass General Brigham researchers has found faster accumulation of tau—a key indicator of Alzheimer’s disease—in the brains of women over the…