As a disease that is best detected and treated early after onset, Alzheimer disease is characterized by a variety of aberrantly…
Articles by Maureen Newman
Decreasing aggregates of amyloid beta peptide (Aβ) is the most common strategy for treating Alzheimer’s disease. One treatment that…
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) are looking to flip the molecular switch for inflammatory diseases such as Alzheimer’s…
Difficult decisions facing Alzheimer’s and other advanced dementia patients must be made with careful consideration for the health and…
Another protein was recently identified as being involved in Alzheimer’s disease by researchers at the Gladstone Institutes in California. Progranulin,…
For some Chinese Alzheimer’s disease patients, genes can have an impact on cognitive decline. A recent study from Beijing…
Amid the rapidly changing political climate surrounding medical marijuana, researchers at University of South Florida (USF) found that low…
Although obese individuals are at a 35% higher risk for Alzheimer’s disease than healthy-weight individuals, it might be possible…
Individuals with frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) may soon benefit from research priorities directed toward curing Alzheimer’s disease and other forms…
Vitamin D, known as the sunshine vitamin due to its mechanism of production in the body, is usually associated…