A documentary of country legend Glen Campbell's life and “Goodbye Tour” following his diagnosis of Alzheimer's ...

Other Phenotypes Premature death, attributed to hindbrain tauopathy, generally occurs between eight and 12 months (Dutschmann et al., 2010). Premature death is preceded by weight loss, hyperkyphosis, ...

Findings The presence of three copies of chromosome 21, which harbors the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene, is the most common genetic cause of Alzheimer’s disease. Carriers of this alteration ...

The Alzheimer’s field was rocked this week by allegations against Sylvain Lesné at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Lesné stands accused of manipulating data images in multiple papers, ...

Today, Biogen and Eisai announced they would terminate the Phase 3 ENGAGE and EMERGE trials of aducanumab for early Alzheimer’s disease. A futility analysis run by an independent data-monitoring ...

Two immunoprecipitation-mass-spectrometry assays came out on top, accurately pegging people who had plaques 83 to 87 percent of the time. The other assays hovered between 64 to 80 percent.

If enhancing memory with light and sound seems futuristic, then welcome to the future. Or so some scientists say. Results from four early stage clinical trials on mild Alzheimer’s disease were ...

Hendrix noted that among people with MCI and early AD, APOE4 carriers tend to decline faster on the ADCOMS, a cognitive composite she co-developed in hopes of picking up subtle changes at early ...

The Phase 3 trial enrolled 1,182 people in its primary analysis population. As in Phase 2, these participants had a tangle burden that fell between 1.1 and 1.46 SUVR on tau PET, the range where Lilly ...

After months of uncertainty, the hammer fell for Biogen: In a draft decision released January 11, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed to cover the anti-amyloid antibody Aduhelm ...

Donanemab banished plaque from the brain in a majority of participants, while nudging down the rate of neurofibrillary tangle accumulation in the frontal cortex and other regions. The trial included ...

This database is a repository of normal genetic variability, designed to be a tool for researchers who study neurodegenerative disease. It contains whole-exome sequencing results from nearly 500 ...