Protein accumulations do important work in the human body, but something can go wrong and proliferate in those aggregates, ...

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 ...

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

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

Scientists have discovered that the cause for Alzheimer's could potentially be coming from the inside of people's mouths.

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

Neurogeneticists have discovered a novel genetic mutation and associated buildup of toxic proteins in the brain -- a type of buildup distinct from amyloid or tau, proteins that have long been the ...

Now, it appears they have. The tests have been centered on the ability to test for either beta amyloid or tau, the characteristic proteins that are deposited in the brain in Alzheimer’s disease, and ...

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 ...