Although autopsy remains the only definitive way to confirm and sometimes diagnose disease, the autopsy rate has continued to decline during ... brain tissue showed no evidence of Alzheimer's ...

Additionally, the study confirmed previous findings about how Alzheimer's damages the brain and identified many new changes that may happen during the ... levels of cell death, inflammation ...

Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE) is a recently characterized form of dementia that is distinct from Alzheimer's disease but can co-occur with the condition ...