Expanded clinical practice guidelines aim to empower all clinicians, regardless of specialty or practice setting to evaluate ...

that this transmission happened under a highly unusual and specific medical scenario. “This is not transmissible in the sense of a viral or bacterial infection. You can’t catch Alzheimer’s ...

As Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia — affecting an estimated 6.7 million Americans — it’s not surprising that people who experience memory loss may suspect AD.

Dementia and Alzheimer’s are extremely difficult ... caregivers need to know whether to call the doctor or head to the ER. In these scenarios, financial concerns loom large.

Researchers have uncovered a compelling potential link between a chronic gut infection caused by a common virus and the ...

Appropriate use criteria (AUC) for the use of amyloid and tau positron emission tomography (PET) have been issued by the Alzheimer's Association and the Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular ...

Your optometrist could soon be your first line of defense against dementia. Data scientists and clinical researchers are working with opticians to develop a digital tool capable of detecting the ...

The clinical criteria for possible AD dementia can be found in Table 4. The term "possible" is used instead of "probable" in 2 scenarios. One is if the cognitive deficits look like AD but there is ...

Viral infections may play a role in Alzheimer's disease. University of Pittsburgh researchers uncovered a surprising link between Alzheimer's disease and herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1), suggesting ...

Axsome plans to submit an NDA for AXS-05 in Alzheimer's disease agitation to the FDA in the second half of 2025. William Blair writes that the data from the trials represent a mixed scenario for ...

A recent report published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association highlights the need to develop “objective criteria” for diagnosing and staging all types of ...

Five scenarios were rated as appropriate ... for patients presenting with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia who are younger than 65 years and in whom Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology ...