Alzheimer’s Disease & Dementia

Changing the way health care staff speak about people living with dementia can lead to significant improvements in care practices, culture, and human connection, new research has found.This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

Symptomatic infection with the virus responsible for cold sores around the mouth–herpes simplex 1, or HSV-1 for short—may have a key role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease, suggests a large US study published in […]

New cases of dementia in the United States declined from 2015 to 2021, but the number of people living with the condition continued to rise due to population aging, with nearly 2.9 million traditional Medicare […]

By combining information from many large datasets, MIT researchers have identified several new potential targets for treating or preventing Alzheimer’s disease.This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

Researchers from the National Center for Healthy Aging (NCHA), a partnership between Monash University and Peninsula Health, have developed a novel method for improving dementia detection in hospitals by combining traditional methods with artificial intelligence […]

A new study has found stark differences in the dementia care received by people in richer and poorer neighborhoods in Quebec, despite the universal health-care system.This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

The United States on Friday approved the first blood test for Alzheimer’s, a move that could help patients begin treatment earlier with newly approved drugs that slow the progression of the devastating neurological disease.This article […]

Is stress associated with Alzheimer’s disease? It may be in women who are postmenopausal, a study led by The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) shows.This article was […]

While Alzheimer’s disease is mostly considered a disorder of the brain, emerging evidence suggests that the condition also affects other organs of the body. Working with the laboratory fruit fly, researchers at Baylor College of […]

Dementia usually affects older people, so when it occurs in middle age, it can be hard to recognize. The most common form is frontotemporal dementia (FTD), which is often mistaken for depression, schizophrenia, or Parkinson’s […]