In a demographically diverse sample of healthy people, Cornell researchers found dramatic changes over the human lifespan in ...

With nearly 55 million people worldwide currently living with dementia—and Alzheimer’s accounting for 60–70% of those cases—the global burden is enormous. Diagnosis delays often prevent early ...

Frontotemporal dementia has gained significant attention in recent years after the family of actor Bruce Willis announced in ...

Tim-3 is an immune checkpoint molecule involved in immunity and inflammation recently linked to late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD), but its role in the brain was unknown until now. Researchers used ...

A new way to deliver disease-fighting proteins throughout the brain may improve the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders, according to scientists. By engineering human ...

A few minutes of conversation might soon be enough to flag early signs of Alzheimer’s ... the disease takes a heavier toll. The technology itself is refreshingly simple. Unlike brain scans ...

While some studies have suggested that having a mother with Alzheimer's disease ... parents with the disease or at least two siblings with the disease. Participants had brain scans and took ...

When Penny Ashford’s father was diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease at age 62 ... on painful spinal taps and expensive brain scans, these blood tests are heralded as a new, less ...

A study published in Brain ... in Alzheimer’s disease. In Brazil, the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in symptomatic cases still relies on structural imaging such as MRI, CT, and laboratory ...

"Diabetes may be altering the brain similarly to early stages of Alzheimer’s disease," said lead researcher and UNLV psychology professor James Hyman in the release. The study was funded by the ...

While some studies have suggested that having a mother with Alzheimer's disease ... parents with the disease or at least two siblings with the disease. Participants had brain scans and took ...

The study appears March 26, in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association. Using the resources of two brain banks, the Neurodegenerative Disease Brain Bank at UCSF and the ...