Alzheimer’s disrupts a lot of the brain, but it doesn’t disrupt your ability to feel emotion. You can still feel loved, lonely, sad or upset.
Despite approval from the UK health authority, the UK’s state-run insurer won’t pay for Alzheimer’s drugs Leqembi and Kisunla. The decision is not yet…
Endurance athlete and former aerospace engineer Scott Berkheiser was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease at age 56, after years of unexplained symptoms and a…
June 20, 2025 Lauren Flake lost her mother, Dixie, to early onset Alzheimer’s disease in 2013. She is a mother to two middle-school aged…
When Jamie Tyrone opened the e-mail from a direct-to-consumer DNA company, she thought she was satisfying a casual curiosity. Instead, she learned she carries…
Award-winning journalist Jennie Erin Smith spent seven years in mountaintop communities and laboratories in Colombia researching her nonfiction book, Valley of Forgetting. It follows…
Robin McIntyre learned at age 29 that she carries the gene for early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. For this hair stylist based in Las Vegas, the…
This Live Talk is produced by Being Patient with support provided by the Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging and Eli Lilly and…
A decade ago, families confronting an Alzheimer’s diagnosis had little more than memory-boosting pills aimed at lessening symptoms but they didn’t halt disease progression….
When people experience concerning memory problems — losing their keys more often, forgetting important events, or struggling to find the right word in the…
Ten million people are diagnosed with dementia worldwide each year – that’s more than ever. According to the Alzheimer’s Society approximately one million people…
After being rejected by EU regulators but approved in the U.S., UK, and several Middle Eastern countries, Alzheimer’s drug Kisunla added a new market:…
This installment of our quarterly Trials Update captures the latest developments in Alzheimer’s and other dementia clinical trials, from January 2025 to present. We’ve…
Does Alzheimer’s start with an infection? Thirty years on, biophysicist Ruth Itzhaki’s research linking viruses with Alzheimer’s is finally getting the attention it deserves….
A person who struggles with tasks they’ve been doing for years or asks the same question over and over again may be showing the…