Caring for a loved one with dementia may require new tools that help you both get through the day without anger or resentment.

A study reveals that traumatic brain injury alters the small vessels in the brain, resulting in an accumulation of amyloid beta -- a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. The findings suggest that vascular ...

Alzheimer's disease, a type of dementia that profoundly alters a person’s memory and cognitive function, affects an estimated ...

Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s,” Charles Piller looks how the amyloid hypothesis took over ...

This Valentine’s day, San Diego native Alison Hranek is celebrating the love she found in caring for the Alzheimer’s ...

There exists no ‘amyloid cabal’” in Alzheimer’s research, neurologist Dennis Selkoe writes in response to Charles Piller’s ...

New drugs for early Alzheimer’s disease may allow people to live without help for up to 39 additional months, a new study estimates. But experts urge caution.

The root causes of most forms of Alzheimer's disease largely remain a mystery. Now, researchers have revealed a new piece of ...

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) can be hard to diagnose, because it is an uncommon type of dementia and does not cause memory problems at first. However, there are some ways to diagnose FTD including ...

Getting an accurate and timely diagnosis of dementia is important. However, for younger people it can often take much longer. There can be specific reasons for this, including: Young-onset dementia is ...

The late research pioneer Roberta (“Bobbie”) Colman, Willis F. Harrington Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UD, had ...

A research team at the Institut de Neurociències of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (INc-UAB) has developed a new ...