Researchers say how quickly a person’s pupil dilates while taking cognitive tests Alzheimer’s disease (AD) begins to alter and damage the brain years — even decades — before symptoms appear,... Read more
Over a hundred years after they were first identified, two ominous signposts of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remain central topics of research—both formed by sticky accumulations of protein in t... Read more
Evidence Mounts That an Eye Scan May Detect Early Alzheimer’s Disease Two new studies suggest signs of the disease are visible in the eyes before symptoms appear, Results from two studies sh... Read more
A Vancouver-based research team led by Canada’s most cited neuroscientist, Dr. Patrick McGeer, has successfully carried out studies suggesting that, if started early enough, a daily regimen... Read more
Participants’ blood samples were drawn years before their dementia diagnosis. Sudha Seshadri, M.D., founding director of the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s & Neurodegenerative Dis... Read more
Using a bioinformatics and experimental approach, scientists at EPFL have found that rendering mitochondria resistant to damage can halt diseases caused by amyloid toxicity, such as Alzheime... Read more
Treatment has potential to correct behavioral and physical deficits associated with the disease, TAU researchers say A new Tel Aviv University study reveals that hyperbaric oxygen treatments... Read more
A new kind of antibody targets a feature shared by proteins thought to cause the most damage in Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and related conditions, creating potential for a uni... Read more
DNA strands in materials act like traffic signals to start, stop cell activity or regenerate tissue A groundbreaking advancement in materials from Northwestern University could potentially h... Read more
PARKINSON’S DISEASE An estimated seven to ten million people worldwide are living with Parkinson’s disease (PD), which is an incurable and progressive disease of the nervous syst... Read more
The Nantz National Alzheimer Center at Houston Methodist Hospital is part of a landmark clinical trial that looks at removing a key protein from the brain to prevent memory loss at least a d... Read more
