Brain supplements that claim to boost cognitive function are increasingly popular, growing from a $4 billion industry of about 4,000 unique products to a…
Alzheimer’s main hallmarks — beta-amyloid plaques and tau tangles — have long been the focus of the quest to come up with an Alzheimer’s…
Researchers found that the more severe people’s obstructive sleep apnea, the more likely they are to have a higher burden of beta-amyloid plaques in…
A dementia diagnosis may upend life plans for both the person with the diagnosis and their family. Dr. Erin Zahradnik, who provides palliative care…
The longstanding cholinergic hypothesis proposes that the cholinergic system — a network of neurons which passes information through a chemical messenger known as acetylcholine…
How can we differentiate between “normal” aging and mild cognitive impairment, the condition associated with early stages of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s? Aging can…
Nursing homes in the Western U.S. work together as they grapple with evacuations in a natural disaster. It was a night in early September…
