Risk factor for developing Alzheimer’s disease increases by 50-80% in older adults who caught COVID-19
Older people who were infected with COVID-19 show a substantially higher risk—as much as 50% to 80% higher than a…
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…
Neurophysiological techniques (e.g., electroencephalography, EEG, transcranial magnetic stimulation, TMS) allow an informed investigation of the brain overexcitability underpinning the typical…
The discovery of how to shift damaged brain cells from a diseased state into a healthy one presents a potential new…
Mount Sinai researchers have achieved an unprecedented understanding of the genetic and molecular machinery in human microglia—immune cells that reside…
One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease is a reduction in the firing of some neurons in the brain, which…
An estimated 50 million people around the world have Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and perhaps twice that number are unknowingly “incubating”…
A new study has revealed how tau – a microtubule-binding protein that is implicated in Alzheimer’s disease – weakens transmission…
The number of elderly suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease has been rapidly rising over the past decades. For a long time,…
They published a report of their findings in the journal Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences on 28. April 2022. Altered…
The research uses machine learning technology to look at structural features within the brain, including in regions not previously associated…
Dementia is one of the major causes of disability and dependency among older people worldwide, affecting thinking and behaviours as…
As rates of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia continue to rise in the U.S., new evidence suggests that…
A world-first treatment for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), developed by scientists at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Prion Unit at UCL,…
Researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) have found that oral…
In work presented at the 2022 EULAR Congress, Dr Jens Kristian Pedersen and colleagues used data from the DANBIO registry…
In a new study of Alzheimer’s disease, researchers at UC San Francisco have discovered that a relatively unstudied form of…
For more than 20 years, scientists have known that people with hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, or obesity have a higher…
Breakthrough COVID-19 cases resulting in infections, hospitalizations and deaths are significantly more likely in cancer and Alzheimer’s patients, according to…
As explained by Francisco Camarena, researcher at the Institute of Instrumentation for Molecular Imaging, a joint center between the UPV…
Not only does how well people with dementia sleep affect their symptoms the following day, but of particular significance is…
Researchers have found that a suite of complimentary tests can quantify changes in dogs suspected of suffering from cognitive decline….
A University of Arizona Health Sciences study found that a specific genotype of the APOE gene, better known as the Alzheimer’s gene,…
Although symptoms of advanced Alzheimer’s disease are well known, diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in its earliest stages requires careful cognitive…
21 million. That’s the number of genetic variations in the human genome that researchers are sifting to identify patterns predisposing…
A new study from the from the University of Missouri School of Medicine and MU Health Care shows patients hospitalized…
Inhibiting an important signaling pathway in brain-resident immune cells may calm brain inflammation and thereby slow the disease process in…