Category: Alzheimer’s / Dementia

Researchers have determined that atrial fibrillation (Afib) is independently associated with changes that occur with aging and dementia.

Using current techniques, Alzheimer’s disease, the most frequent cause of dementia, can only be detected once the typical plaques have formed in the brain. At

Alzheimer’s is dementia, but not all dementias are Alzheimer’s (which may explain why so many Alzheimer’s drugs have failed in clinical trials). A new study

Two proteins central to the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease act as prions — misshapen proteins that spread through tissue like an infection by forcing normal

Researchers performed the first comprehensive analysis of the genes altered in individual brain cells of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, allowing them to identify the distinctive