Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have devised a biomarker test that can spot small amounts of clumping tau protein ...

The following column was originally published May 28, 2022. Thanks to breakthroughs in medicine and nutrition in recent years, we are living longer than ever before. But this increase in life ...

Alzheimer's disease, a type of dementia that profoundly alters a person’s memory and cognitive function, affects an estimated ...

Researchers have identified the mitochondrial calcium uniporter as a critical protein in the strengthening of synaptic ...

There exists no ‘amyloid cabal’” in Alzheimer’s research, neurologist Dennis Selkoe writes in response to Charles Piller’s ...

Detecting toxic forms of tau before they weave into dense thickets of tangles could pave the way for earlier diagnosis and ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered new insights into brain changes in Parkinson's disease using advanced ...

The test could help identify one key Alzheimer's biomarker, tau protein, before it shows up in brain. Here's what experts say ...

Doug Whitney was supposed to develop Alzheimer's by 50. Now scientists are trying to understand why his brain remains healthy ...

When prostate cancer patients need therapy to reduce male hormone levels, delivering some of the treatment via a patch on the skin may be just as effective as traditional means of administration with ...

A complementary drug to combat Alzheimer's disease could target a specific part of the nerve cell protein tau. This is the finding of new research which also offers a better way to measure the effect ...