One of the things that makes Alzheimer’s disease so hard to treat is that scientists still don’t understand the basic biology behind what’s driving…
For decades, humans were thought to be the only species to develop Alzheimer’s disease. But in a study published this week in the journal…
Dr. Tara Spires-Jones, Director of the Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems at the University of Edinburgh, is trying to understand how synapses are…
As research into new Alzheimer’s drugs spirals in multiple directions, patients are often left wondering what really works. Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, Professor of Neurology…
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…