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

In an Oxnard conference Thursday, the physician who helps lead a care movement asked people not to define dementia as a ...

Many people mistakenly believe that dementia and Alzheimer's disease are the same. This common misconception can lead to ...

Wisconsin universities, hospitals and health organizations signed a letter urging the state's congressional delegation to ...

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

Ruth Guzman is a Community Educator with the Alzheimer’s Association, and she came by with some helpful information and ...

Poor retinal health in midlife is associated with increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias later on, ...

Autoimmunity and Alzheimer’s. People with autoimmune disorders in the UCSF (left) and Stanford medical systems (right) were ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington and the University of California–San Francisco have used a new brain-mapping technique to identify memory-related brain cells vulnerable to ...

"When we look at changes over time, we see that women have faster rates of tau accumulation than men in areas of the brain that tend to be most vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease," Buckley told ...

The number of Americans with new diagnoses of dementia is expected to nearly double by 2060, according to a new study ...

An international team of researchers, led by Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, has conducted a ...