Alzheimer’s Disease & Dementia

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In the past two years, the Food and Drug Administration has approved two novel Alzheimer’s therapies, based on data from clinical trials showing that both drugs slowed the progression of the disease. But while the […]

A UCLA Health research team has identified changes in brain rhythms that indicate seizure activity in Alzheimer’s patients. The findings, published in Brain Communications, build on UCLA neurologist and senior author Dr. Keith Vossel’s pioneering […]

A study at Lund University reveals that traumatic brain injury alters the small vessels in the brain, resulting in an accumulation of amyloid beta—a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. The findings suggest that vascular dysfunction could […]

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have conducted a longitudinal study on an individual carrying the presenilin 2 (PSEN2) p.Asn141Ile mutation, a genetic variant known to cause dominantly inherited Alzheimer’s disease […]

Take a look around your home and you’ll find yourself surrounded by familiar comforts—photos of family and friends on the wall, well-worn sneakers by the door, a shelf adorned with travel mementos. Objects like these […]

A research team at the Institut de Neurociències of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (INc-UAB) has developed a new protein capable of improving memory and reducing tau protein levels in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease. […]

University of Queensland researchers have discovered that nearly 70% of suspected frontotemporal dementia patients ultimately did not have the disease in a study aimed at identifying factors that contribute to misdiagnosis of this notoriously difficult […]

A team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC has unlocked the details of a cellular pathway that triggers cellular inflammation and aging and is linked to Alzheimer’s disease, particularly among those […]

Years before tau tangles show up in brain scans of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, a biomarker test developed at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine can detect small amounts of the clumping-prone tau protein […]