From the University of Pennylvania School of Medicine press release via EurekAlert!: Diagnostic tests are increasingly capable of identifying plaques and tangles present in Alzheimer’s disease, yet the disease remains untreatable. Questions remain about how…
From the Washington University in St. Louis press release by Michael C. Purdy via ScienceDaily: Scientists have assembled the most detailed chronology to date of the human brain’s long, slow slide into full-blown Alzheimer’s disease.…
From the Mary Ann Liebert Inc. Publishers press release via AlphaGalileo: Genetic tests exist to identify risk for the rare inherited form of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and to predict susceptibility to the more common,…
From the Flinders University press release via HealthCanal: An inflated sense of memory function in people with dementia may influence their likelihood of seeking help, new Flinders University research shows. As part of her PhD,…
From the Duke University Medical Center press release via MedicalXpress: Among patients with mild or no cognitive impairment, brain scans using a new radioactive dye can detect early evidence of Alzheimer’s disease that may predict…
From the University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center press release via ScienceDaily: Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most dreaded and debilitating illnesses one can develop. Currently, the disease afflicts 6.5 million…
From the Arizona State University press releaes via EurekAlert!: Scientists at Arizona State University have discovered that older honey bees effectively reverse brain aging when they take on nest responsibilities typically handled by much younger…
From the Biomed Central press release via ScienceDaily: Research published today in Biomed Central’s open access journal Journal of Neuroinflammation suggests that chronic inflammation can predispose the brain to develop Alzheimer’s disease. To date it…
From the Boston University Medical Center press release via EurekAlert!: In a genome-wide association (GWA) study, researchers from Boston University Schools of Medicine (BUSM) and Public Health (BUSPH) have identified several genes which influence degeneration…
From the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio press release via EurekAlert!: Cognitive skills such as learning and memory diminish with age in everyone, and the drop-off is steepest in Alzheimer’s disease.…