There are more than 100 experimental Alzheimer’s treatments in the pipeline, but the majority of clinical trials for potential Alzheimer’s therapies are delayed due…
January 25, 2021 Robin Thomson was the caregiver for his wife and the author of “Living with Alzheimer’s: A love story.” I will always…
Carolee Lee of WHAM! and Michelle M. Mielke at the Mayo Clinic examine the consequences of ignoring gender and biology in Alzheimer’s research —…
As part of our BrainTalk series, Being Patient spoke with Dr. Claudia Kawas, co-lead investigator of the 90+ Study, about the complex pathothologies of…
Beloved quiz show host Alex Trebek passed away Nov. 8, at age 80, following a nearly two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. He had announced…
As we age, memories of long past events become more important, especially with each passing decade of late midlife and old age. Studies show…
While researchers have known that the ApoE4 genetic variant is the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s and related dementias, this finding is largely…
There are many early signs of dementia from trouble paying bills to forgetting details of a conversation and repeating the same questions. Now, researchers…
A new review of 44 years worth of data from Sweden found that women with more years of fertility had two thirds higher risk…
While some scientists are focused on targeting beta-amyloid plaques to treat Alzheimer’s, others are honing in on another hallmark of the disease — pathological…
At the National Alzheimer’s Summit, experts stressed that it is possible for people to reduce their risk of developing dementia by making certain lifestyle…
A recent study found that constant uncontrollable worry — what cognitive scientists call repetitive negative thinking — may be a factor in the aggregation…
We know from tissue samples that some changes that happen in the brain also occur in the retina. An accumulation of abnormal proteins like…
I’ll give some background information about the kind of research that we’ve been doing for the past 15 or 20 years. Neuroinflammation is the…
Yes, and the rationale for conducting this study was that it has been known that depression and dementia are related. Older adults with the…