Oct. 3, 2024 — An international team of researchers have made a promising breakthrough in the development of drugs to treat Alzheimer's Disease. For the first time, scientists have developed a ...

World Alzheimer's Day, observed annually on September 21st, serves as an important reminder of the global impact of this devastating disease. It is a very significant day for awareness and ...

Some evidence suggests melatonin may help improve sleep-wake cycles, sundowning symptoms, and cognitive performance in people with dementia, but more research is necessary. Melatonin is a hormone ...

Have we been wrong about what causes Alzheimer's disease? New research suggests yes. For years, the leading theory for the cause of this neurodegeneration was the accumulation of abnormal proteins ...

Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease has relied on cognitive symptoms until recently. While brain imaging scans and cerebrospinal fluid assays can be used for Alzheimer’s diagnosis, these methods ...

In the months after my partner, Alex, was diagnosed with dementia in 2019, more than one person advised me to “save” myself. What they meant was that I should move Alex into an assisted-living ...

Scientists may have uncovered a new mechanism for treating Alzheimer's disease, offering hope to millions of patients worldwide. The discovery involves the activation of the brain's cellular clean ...

Re “Hope, heartache: Caught in the tightening grip of Alzheimer’s, a couple look to a new drug for a reprieve — however uncertain” (Page A1, Sept. 15): Thanks to reporter Jonathan Saltzman ...

Francisco Lopera defied rebels, cartels and vampire bats to become a pioneering researcher of Alzheimer’s disease. By Jennie Erin Smith Jennie Erin Smith is a freelance science writer.

Laboratory mice with cognitive issues including Alzheimer’s disease showed improved memory skills within a couple of weeks of treatment with a new medicine tested at Colorado State University.

I figured out that a Laxton’s Superb is a type of apple because it appeared in a poem called “Ducking for Apples.” But in that same poem I stopped in my tracks at this line: “What gazed ...

But that began to change in his early 50s, when he started showing symptoms of what was ultimately diagnosed as early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. At first, he forgot details of conversations he ...