One in ten people over the age of 65 will be diagnosed with dementia. For people over 85, dementia is already a reality for 32…
Tracking changes in a certain protein found through a simple blood test could detect Alzheimer’s up to a decade before other symptoms like memory…
As a college student, Marty Reiswig decided to take his girlfriend to a family reunion. After he noticed many of his relatives struggling with…
Would you want to know if you had a rare early-onset gene that meant you were almost certainly going to get Alzheimer’s? Marty Reiswig’s family…
With the rise of genetic testing, many people wonder about their genetic risk for Alzheimer’s. Carrying two copies of the ApoE4 gene could increase…
Almost everyone who knows they carry the Alzheimer’s gene finds out the same way: sitting at a computer, poring intently over a screen that…
Alzheimer’s disease was first discovered in Germany in 1901 when a 51-year-old patient named Auguste Deter went to see her doctor Alois Alzheimer. The…