Age and genetics are risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease, but lifestyle factors play a key role, too. Dietitians suggest avoiding alcohol, caffeine, heavy meals and sodium after 5 p.m to help reduce ...

Activating two somatostatin receptors enhances amyloid beta breakdown and improves memory in models of Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the RIKEN Center for Brain ...

In animal studies, keeping brain NAD + levels in balance prevented Alzheimer’s from developing. Even more striking, restoring NAD + balance after the disease was already advanced allowed the brain to ...

June is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. Every 65 seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Right now, nearly 7 million Americans are living with the disease. That number is expected to ...

Today, nearly 7 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer’s — a number expected to increase to nearly 13 million by 2050, including 95,000 in Louisiana. Without medical breakthroughs, this ...

Researchers have added to a stack of existing evidence that 40 Hz gamma frequencies could help to treat Alzheimer's disease.

Neurologist Professor Catherine Mummery encourages us to look at our lives and see if there’s anything to improve to protect ...

A nurse has shared the 10-second co-ordination activity we should all be doing every day to reduce our risk of Alzheimer's ...

November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month and Family Caregivers Month. To mark these events, the Alzheimer’s Association is encouraging people to lend a helping hand to the 656,000 New ...

Three years after the accelerated approval of its anti-amyloid Alzheimer’s therapy, Biogen—neck and neck in the market with ...

A finger-prick blood test that can be mailed to a lab may offer a simpler way to detect the brain changes linked to Alzheimer ...