Alzheimer’s 7 Stages, From Early Signs to Advanced Dementia
Misplacing your car keys, calling your neighbor by the wrong name or forgetting to buy bread at the grocery store are common memory lapses….
Misplacing your car keys, calling your neighbor by the wrong name or forgetting to buy bread at the grocery store are common memory lapses….
Despite more than a century of research since Alzheimer’s disease was first described in 1906, diagnosing Alzheimer’s remains extremely challenging for physicians. Researchers are…
The idea that anxiety somehow foreshadows Alzheimer’s is not new: We have seen it in, for example, 2018 findings that increased anxiety corresponded with…
There are many early signs of dementia from trouble paying bills to forgetting details of a conversation and repeating the same questions. Now, researchers…
This article was produced by Being Patient in partnership with Charter Research. More information on Alzheimer’s clinical trials can be found on the Charter…
How can we differentiate between “normal” aging and mild cognitive impairment, the condition associated with early stages of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s? Aging can bring…
While most Alzheimer’s detection and prevention research is focused on the aggregation of tau tangles and amyloid beta proteins in the brain, some novel…
We might see increasing forgetfulness in older age as a red flag of mild cognitive decline or dementia. But it turns out that some…
With aging comes concern about developing Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia, and every lapse in memory or attention can feel like the…
In the late 1890s, a railroad worker in Frankfurt Germany noticed that his wife, Auguste Deter, was behaving oddly. Gradually her anxiety and mood…
When it comes to Alzheimer’s, what happens first: beta amyloid plaques, or the visible personality and cognitive changes common with the disease? Researchers have…
Researchers may now be able to predict memory problems far in advance by identifying certain brain activity patterns. In a new study out of…
Doctors can spot the beginning stages of mild cognitive impairment, and the very early symptoms of Alzheimer’s, through memory tests. But these tests —…
Could epileptic seizures be a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease? A recent study has found that patients with dementia have an increased risk of having…
As one of ten kids, journalist Greg O’Brien became a caregiver for his parents after his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and his father…