The first hints that Gregory Nelson might be having cognitive troubles were subtle. “Everyone who hits a certain age just ...

New research suggests that lithium is depleted in the brains of Alzheimer's patients and is essential for normal brain ...

World Alzheimer’s Day offers us the chance to reflect on this debilitating condition, and we’re remembering how it has ...

At the turn of the 20th century, Dr. Alois Alzheimer noticed peculiar changes in a freshly removed brain. The brain had belonged to a 50-year-old woman who gradually lost her memory and struggled with ...

A new generation of Alzheimer’s blood tests could speed up diagnosis and access to care—but they also raise thorny questions ...

When German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer made the post-mortem discovery of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the early 1900s, he birthed the discovery of a cruel and insidious disorder.

On 3 November 1906, attendees of the 37th meeting of the South-West German Psychiatrists in Tübingen were the first to hear the story of Auguste Deter. Deter, a 51-year-old woman from Frankfurt, had ...

Mary Jean (Anderson) Johns of Cincinnati, Ohio and formerly of Evansville passed away on Sunday, March 24, 2024, at Alois Alzheimer Center from complications of dementia. Jean was born on May 16, 1937 ...