Did you know 1/5 people who see a doctor with cognitive concerns are misdiagnosed? Dementia, in all its many forms — including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s,…
What would you do if, after years of living with Alzheimer’s disease, you found out you were misdiagnosed? Retired neuroscience nurse practitioner Doreen Monks…
October 16, 2024 Tim Mehrtens lives in New Zealand and was a caregiver to his mother with Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s is often described as a…
Latino and Hispanic populations have a high risk for Alzheimer’s, yet the population is not often represented in clinical trials. With early onset Alzheimer’s…
Receiving an Alzheimer’s diagnosis is often a long, complex process, with many individuals facing delayed diagnosis or even misdiagnosis for years. A key reason…
“No president has entered the White House with as clear a focus on Alzheimer’s disease as Joe Biden,” Maria Shriver and George Vradenburg wrote…
While the world tracks the progress of disease-modifying Alzheimer’s anti-amyloids through the drug development and FDA approval pipeline, there are symptomatic treatments making their…
No one can tell for certain if you’ll develop Alzheimer’s disease 10, 20 or 30 years from now — but you can certainly lower…
Getting an accurate Alzheimer’s diagnosis can take years — and several visits to the doctor. After taking a medical history, neurological exam, and blood tests…
September 27, 2024 Dr. Zahydie Burgos Ribot (@inolvidable.mente) is a Licensed Psychologist and caregiver to her husband who was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at…
According to legend, Kaldi, an Ethiopian goat herder who lived more than 1000 years ago, noticed something curious about his goats: If they ate…
More than one billion adults worldwide have high blood pressure, but since it doesn’t often cause symptoms, half of them don’t even know they…
Treatment with a powerful magnet is one of the newest experimental therapies being used to try to turn back the clock on Alzheimer’s disease….
For 25 years, Mark Sennet worked as a photojournalist and celebrity photographer for Life and People Magazine. He has photographed royals, presidents, sports legends,…
Athira Pharma’s experimental Alzheimer’s drug fosgonimeton hit a speedbump on its way toward FDA approval: The treatment failed to show a clinical benefit in…