“Imagine a world where diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease is as simple as getting your blood tested during your annual physical,” Bill Gates wrote in a…
Navigating a dementia diagnosis is difficult enough, but the impact of a diagnosis on caregivers’ and patients’ wallets can be equally devastating. The Alzheimer’s…
Dr. Daniel C. Potts is a neurologist sharing what patients and care partners should know about navigating the healthcare system after watching his father…
When you close your eyes and go to your “happy place,” does it involve the great outdoors? If so, there may be a good…
Vicki Bartholomew started a support group for wives who are caring for a husband with Alzheimer’s disease because she needed that sort of group…
We talk to Daniela Kaufer, from the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and the University of California, Berkeley, about the effects of chronic stress on…
After years of failure, including some pharmaceutical companies calling off Alzheimer’s research altogether, Biogen offers a glimmer of hope: New data from a Phase…
We talk to Dr. Martha Clare Morris, who developed the MIND diet, about how diet may help prevent Alzheimer’s. 1:07: The MIND diet studies’…
‘Skinny fat’ is a term used to describe someone who is a relatively small size, but has low muscle tone. Some people might call…
Researchers suggest that brain glucose and ketones may be involved in ApoE’s connection with Alzheimer’s. We know that people with a certain gene called…
Could an aspirin a day keep dementia away? A new study has added to the list of evidence that anti-inflammatories like aspirin might be…
We tend to think of problems with hearing, eyesight and thinking as just another part of getting older. And to an extent, those functions…
When your loved one gets a dementia diagnosis, you probably know that you should start getting their affairs in order. Your doctor may talk…
We know high blood pressure is not good for the heart. But recent research has shown that high blood pressure is not only bad…
The body’s inability to correctly absorb B12, a vitamin found in animal products like meat, cheese, eggs and milk, has been linked to neurological…