Modifying messenger RNA may provide a new target for Alzheimer’s disease
Reducing the methylation of a key messenger RNA can promote migration of macrophages into the brain and ameliorate symptoms of…
Reducing the methylation of a key messenger RNA can promote migration of macrophages into the brain and ameliorate symptoms of…
Taking vitamin D supplements may help ward off dementia, according to a new, large-scale study. Researchers at the University of…
February 21, 2023—Of all the known genetic risk factors for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease, the strongest is a gene for the…
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, accounting for 60% to 80% of dementia cases, according to the…
Scientists are not yet clear on how the tau protein changes from a benign protein essential for normal function in…
An ancient human foraging instinct, fueled by fructose production in the brain, may hold clues to the development and possible…
As the Alzheimer’s disease scientific community, patients, and families seek to understand the results of clinical trials of new Alzheimer’s…
More than 55 million people worldwide were living with Alzheimer’s disease in 2020, according to Alzheimer’s Disease International. This figure…
A new study shows that sleep medications increase the risk of dementia in whites. But the type and quantity of…
New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London has established a blood-based test…
A leading Swansea University scientist has developed a new ‘smart patch’ that can detect proinflammatory biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases (such…
Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) could help prevent Alzheimer’s Dementia among women at risk of developing the disease – according to…
A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that older adults with…
Middle-aged smokers are far more likely to report having memory loss and confusion than nonsmokers, and the likelihood of cognitive…
A recent study from the University of Eastern Finland shows that previous traumatic brain injury may potentially affect the risk…
Scientists at Scripps Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found a clue to the molecular cause of Alzheimer’s—a…
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave controversial accelerated approval to the first Alzheimer’s drug in nearly 20 years,…
A Cornell-led collaboration used machine learning to pinpoint the most accurate means, and timelines, for anticipating the advancement of Alzheimer’s…
The Alzheimer’s Association is disappointed by the topline Phase 3 data reported today by Genentech and Roche from the GRADUATE…
A large study led by Lund University in Sweden has shown that people with Alzheimer’s disease can now be identified…
Considering how patients from different ethnic groups respond to the same drug could be crucial to finding new Alzheimer’s disease…
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a debilitating disorder that causes rapid degeneration of the brain as well as progressing dementia. It…
An estimated 6.2 million Americans ages 65 and older are living with Alzheimer’s disease. The national Alzheimer’s Association predicts that number to…
Researchers from Hokkaido University and Toppan have developed a method to detect build-up of amyloid β in the brain, a…
Case Western Reserve University researchers have identified a mechanism in brain tissue that may explain why women are more vulnerable…
Older people who were infected with COVID-19 show a substantially higher risk—as much as 50% to 80% higher than a…
A newly developed agonistic antibody reduced the amyloid pathology in mice with Alzheimer’s disease, signaling its promise as a potential…
Researchers have developed a new method to identify people who are at greater genetic risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease before…
A new MIT study finds that Alzheimer’s disease disrupts at least one form of visual memory by degrading a newly…
Prion diseases are incurable, deadly neurological disorders that can affect both humans and animals–including Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in people, Bovine…