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 ...

A study at Lund University reveals that traumatic brain injury alters the small vessels in the brain, resulting in an ...

Nearly 100 volunteer advocates from the Alzheimer's Association - Western Carolina and Eastern North Carolina chapters gathered in Raleigh on Feb. 11 for N.C. Alzheimer’s Advocacy Day. They urged lawm ...

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 ...

Repeats Raise Risk. The more STR expansions a person carried, the higher their odds for AD (left). People with more repeat expansions tended to have worse tau pathology as per Braak stage (right).

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

From a study that analyzed brain images of more than 2,500 people with Parkinson's disease in 20 different countries, ...

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