Yes, dogs can get dementia, just like humans. A new study shows lots of walks may lower the risk. Susan Hazel and Tracey Taylor…
Healthy diets seem to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. But new research calls everything we thought we knew about the Mediterranean diet into question. Why…
Researchers in Denmark say they’ve found that destroying a certain gene can prevent early-onset Alzheimer’s. The test subjects who helped them prove it: a…
When Michele Hall began experiencing alarming memory problems, her doctors initially suggested that she was going through menopause or perhaps experiencing unusual levels of…
Sometimes I look up and see my future staring at me, wagging her tail. Her name is Beatrice. She’s a 16-year-old cattle dog mix…
Every second, the 100 billion neurons in your brain fire off five to 50 electrical messages. This encodes instructions that are important for everything…
While too much sedentary time sitting around can be bad for brain health, but a new study adds that what you do while you…
Falling is linked to impairments across memory, concentration and cognition in adults over the age of 65. After sudden falls or loss of balance,…
The setting could not have been less threatening. I was sitting in the press room on the last day of the Alzheimer’s Association International…
Reporter Phil Gutis reflects his experience at AAIC — and on the barriers between lay people and scientists when it comes to the latest…
Neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience experts Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian and Christelle Langley at University of Cambridge and Chun Shen and Jianfeng Feng at Fudan University…
In the midst of a media frenzy around fraud allegations and a key Alzheimer’s drug target, reporter Phil Gutis reflects on his personal experience…
A study found that closely following the MIND diet for brain health appeared to cut peoples’ Alzheimer’s risk in half. The diet’s creator discusses…
About one in 20 Americans have levels of vitamin D that would qualify them as deficient. A deficiency of vitamin D has been linked…
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for estrogen — the use of pills, topical gels, and other applications to supplement estrogen production — is used to treat…