Boosting a certain brain protein could help slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, a new study has found. The ...

New method uses patient-derived neurons to effectively simulate late-onset Alzheimer's and identify possible treatments. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have ...

Goodman and her colleagues found that even a 50 percent loss of healthy tau is sufficient to disrupt lipid droplets and ...

Yuhai Zhao and Walter J Lukiw at the LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center unveils a previously unknown pathway from the ...

Imagine a world where Alzheimer's disease could be effectively treated, not just managed. We might be one step closer to that ...

A weight-maintaining hormone is essential for brain-signal transmission. New research is more closely linking obesity to ...

Professor Mudher is using clever genetic manipulation in fruit flies to turn genes on and off in their nerve cells. This will reveal the genes responsible for helping tau (one of the proteins that ...

Alzheimer's disease is becoming more prevalent due to lifestyle factors like inactivity, poor diet, loneliness, inadequate ...

Researchers demonstrated that several findings in Alzheimer's disease are observed across disorders, identifying potential ...

A notable trend becomes apparent when comparing deaths linked to Alzheimer’s with those from heart disease, the leading cause ...

While genetics play a role in early-onset Alzheimer's, environmental and lifestyle factors are also emerging as significant ...

Another discounted factor why women are more prone to developing Alzheimer’s is that on an average, they live longer than men ...