Alzheimer’s disease — which affects an estimated 7 million Americans — is notoriously difficult to detect, especially in its ...

New research has revitalized interest in the longstanding link between brain trauma and dementia by focusing on the vascular ...

Amyloid beta peptides start out as helpful scaffolding, but they can turn toxic with the production of reactive oxygen ...

With early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease comes the possibility of treatment to not only help manage symptoms but also slow ...

Researchers have developed a test that spots early signs of Alzheimer's disease. Rather than looking for amyloid-beta plaques ...

In diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, specific proteins misfold and clump together, forming toxic aggregates that ...

Now, several publications and presentations at the recent Alzheimer’s Association International Conference have demonstrated that blood tests measuring amyloid and tau proteins have become much more ...

Low-level light therapy, also called photobiomodulation (PBM), has emerged as a promising approach to Alzheimer's treatment, ...

Using a new animal model of Alzheimer’s disease, the study highlights a potential breakthrough in treatment strategies. Unlike current therapies that primarily target a single toxic protein linked to ...

Rather than looking for amyloid-beta plaques like many other Alzheimer's tests, this one hunts for tiny clumps of tau protein, which are more often associated with cognitive decline. The ...