A risk factor is something that influences our chances developing a disease. There are a mix of risk factors for Alzheimer’s, some that we cannot control like our age and genetics, and some that we ...

The causes of dementia that affect people under the age of 65 include: Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of young onset dementia, accounting for around one in three of all young onset ...

American actor Gene Allen Hackman, who was found dead along with his wife, Betsy Arakawa on February 26, at their home died of a heart disease complicated by Alzheimer’s disease.According to officials ...

Why are researchers still fumbling in the quest to cure what is arguably one of the most important diseases confronting ...

The 94-year-old died of heart disease and complications caused by Alzheimer’s disease, according to the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator. Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder ...

But until recently, those efforts have been focused primarily on the brain (where the obvious symptoms of the disease occur), leaving out a potentially crucial factor that Dr. Alois Alzheimer ...

SEVEN NEWS. MORE THAN 53,000 NEW MEXICANS ARE EXPECTED TO HAVE ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE BY 2025. THE ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION SAYS THAT’S AN INCREASE OF 2000 PEOPLE PER YEAR. WE ASKED KOAT ...

A puzzling discovery has left doctors scratching their heads: The brain of an American woman with Down syndrome showed all the classic signs of Alzheimer’s disease, yet she remained symptom-free ...

More than 120 years ago, in November 1901, German Dr. Alois Alzheimer took on a patient—a 51-year-old woman with “presenile dementia” who’d become paranoid, lost her sense of self ...

Here, we propose a dichotomous role for FABP7 in which ligand type determines the subcellular translocation of fatty acids, either promoting wakefulness aligned with Alzheimer’s pathogenesis or ...