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

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

Rapid Enrollment and Dosing of First Patients Encouraging and Underscores Unmet Need for Better Treatment Options for Alzheimer’s Disease ...

In “Doctored,” Charles Piller uncovers evidence that many important Alzheimer’s studies are based on faulty data.

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

In an exceptionally rare case, a patient with a high genetic risk of developing Alzheimer's appears to have avoided his ...

A new biomarker test can detect early-stage tau protein clumping up to a decade before it appears on brain scans, improving ...

These various tests are at different stages of validation – assuring they’re accurate across many different populations. And, for each protein, there are several different met ...

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 ...

A Potential Solution for Neurodegenerative Diseases. Open Access Library Journal, 12, 1-16. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1112714 . Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), a complex neurodegenerative condition, significantly ...

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