This unexpected early warning sign relates to a change in sensory perception, specifically your sense of smell. A declining ...

New research suggests enhancing the brain’s own immune cells could help clear plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

The brain of a US woman with Down syndrome showed the classic signs of Alzheimer’s disease upon her death, yet she remained ...

When she died, the doctor conducted an autopsy, finding in her brain two suspicious proteins: sticky plaques between her ...

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia and the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. It ...

Systematic fraud -- led by a "cabal of self-interested researchers, government accomplices, and corporate greed" in the words ...

A new study suggests a promising alternative to previous attempts to remove the sticky, toxic amyloid beta plaques from brains with Alzheimer's Disease: enhancing the brain's own immune cells to clear ...

Researchers at Northwestern University have made a breakthrough in identifying a way for Alzheimer's disease to be treated ...

Scientists have long been racking their brains for ways to treat Alzheimer’s disease, the most common type of dementia.

A special edition of the journal Science focuses on women's health, including links between estrogen and dementia, at a time ...

Northwestern researchers made progress on new biochemical possibilities this week, in both the human brain and everyday ...

Samsung is backing Alzheimer’s disease blood test developer C2N Diagnostics, with $10 million to help scale up its commercial ...