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An international collaboration led by RIKEN researchers has discovered how unusual spherical structures form in the brains of ...

Understand Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease is the leading cause of dementia, accounting for approximately 80% of ...

A new interdisciplinary study at the University of Delaware seeks to study AD by examining changes in the arteries and brain ...

A multi-institutional study made up of 26 researchers led by the University of Melbourne has discovered that iron-reducing deferiprone accelerates cognitive decline in patients with early ...

That disease is Alzheimer’s disease. Let’s begin with some definitions. Alzheimer’s disease is a degenerative brain disease ...

New details have emerged about how Alzheimer’s disease affects the brain. Researchers led by the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle and University of Washington Medicine have ...

We fully endorse the Editorial1 on the negative opinion of the European Medicines Agency of the use of lecanemab for the treatment of early Alzheimer's disease. Investigators from the European ...

Alzheimer's disease damages the brain before any symptoms begin to appear, new research suggests. This is part of a new two-step model of Alzheimer's progression, which features an early "silent ...

There is an increasing amount of research into the link between certain infections and dementia, including herpes, pneumonia, syphilis, Lyme disease and gum disease. Research shows that dementia is ...

When you find as a loved one, having to be in those difficult conversations, or to try to make her do things that she wasn't ...

Nearly 7 million Americans 65 and older are living with Alzheimer's disease, which gradually destroys memory and thinking skills and the ability to perform daily tasks. LIGHTFIELD STUDIOS ...