We're talking octogenarians (or older) with faculties more like their 50s. Here's what Northwestern cognition researchers ...

A biomarker test identified tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease before fibrillary tangles developed. Neurofibrillary tangle formation can be prevented by targeting intermediate soluble tau assemblies ...

Why do memories falter with age? In a preprint posted on bioRxiv on May 22, scientists led by Omer Sharon and sleep researcher Matthew Walker at the University of California, Berkeley, suggested that ...

Alzheimer's disease has long been thought to be irreversible, but new research using a mouse model offers hope.

Clinicians may soon have a blood test for neurofibrillary tangles. At AAIC 2024, held July 27-31 in Philadelphia, Randall Bateman, Washington University, St. Louis, reported that a fragment of tau ...

Today we begin a several-part series on Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of memory loss and dementia. Alzheimer’s is a brain disease characterized by amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that causes brain cell death. This progressive disease, which causes a distinct pattern of pathological changes in the brain, is most common ...

A spectrum of neurodegenerative diseases, including frontotemporal dementia (FTD), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and corticobasal degeneration (CBD) are due to the accumulation of abnormal, ...

Scientists know that a build-up of specific proteins in the brain is associated with Alzheimer’s disease. However, by the time these proteins have become visible in brain scans, disease progression is ...

In people with no thinking and memory problems, a simple test may predict the risk of developing cognitive impairment years later, according to a study published in the April 19, 2023, online issue of ...