Two years ago, I started waking up exhausted. It didn’t matter how long I slept. I’d find myself nodding off at my computer. Whenever…
When neurologists first studied the brains of people with Alzheimer’s, more than 100 years ago, they spotted two abnormal clumps of proteins — beta-amyloid…
As the vast majority of Alzheimer’s drugs fail in clinical trials, some researchers and companies are turning to non-invasive neurotechnology as an alternative approach…
Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and one of the relative few who has gotten a prescription for the new, disease-modifying anti-amyloid drug Leqembi? If you live…
There are different modalities of drugs, delivered in different formats, that work in different ways. One type of drug you may encounter often is…
Open your medicine cabinet, and you’ll see many examples of the most common type of medication on the market: Small molecule drugs such as…
According to the 2020 Lancet Commission report, the number of people living with dementia worldwide will almost triple in the coming decades, from 57…
TauRx’s experimental drug HMTM is designed to target tau protein, an Alzheimer’s biomarker protein that causes tangles to muck up the works in the…
Age remains the chief predictor of Alzheimer’s, and as the world’s population skews older, dementia rates are rising: Globally, cases are expected to triple…
The vitamins and minerals we get via the foods we eat play essential roles in our overall brain health. So, could an over-the-counter multivitamin…
Scientists are looking for ways to detect cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s faster, so that they could treat the disease sooner. The holy grail of…
One day, when Deb Jobe looked inside her closet, she noticed a giant black hole that wasn’t there before. When she called over her…
In the last three years, amyloid plaque-busting drugs Aduhelm (now discontinued) and Leqembi have been approved by the FDA for treating patients in the…
Scientists have developed more tools than ever to probe Alzheimer’s — from blood tests, to AI-powered cognitive assessments, and brain scans — which have…
About 89 million Americans use smartwatches and other fitness trackers to measure their fitness levels, sleep, and weight. Soon, there will be apps that…