The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer's disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest, with recent ...

British scientists have made a potentially important discovery related to dementia and Alzheimer’s disease that could pave ...

A 2022 study out of Griffith University in Australia found that nose picking can usher Chlamydia pneumoniae, bacteria that ...

In recent years, an increasing number of scientific investigations have backed an alarming hypothesis: Alzheimer's disease may not be merely a condition of an aging brain, but the product of infection ...

A research group led by Professor Michael Glickman, dean of Technion's Faculty of Biology, has uncovered a key mechanism in the development of Alzheimer's. The mechanism in question identifies toxic ...

Patients with retinal vascular occlusion had an elevated risk for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, new research shows.

A new drug candidate shows promise by reversing cognitive decline in advanced Alzheimer's disease by restoring brain balance ...

What if screening for the diseases that cause dementia could start with something as quick as a finger-prick blood test?

UVA Health’s director of hospital epidemiology points to research linking the shingles vaccine to a 20% drop in dementia risk ...

People carrying at least one APOE4 allele have a higher risk of Alzheimer's disease. People who carry two alleles have the highest risk, leading some researchers to suggest that APOE4 homozygotes have ...

Everyone inherits two copies of the APOE gene, one from each parent, meaning six combinations are possible: ε2 / ε2 is the ...

Researchers at Wakayama Medical University in Japan have discovered that amyloid-β deposits disrupt the formation of the ...