Alzheimer’s disease accounts for 60 to 80 percent of dementia cases. Unlike occasional forgetfulness, dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease is severe enough to interfere with you or your loved one’s ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurocognitive disease that slowly erodes an individual's memory, judgment, cognition, learning, and, eventually, ability to function. It is the leading ...

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, but treatments are still far from successful in clinical trials. Here is what we know about the disease, and what is yet to be uncovered.

Beyond these rare circumstances, the results may hold clues about how Alzheimer’s disease can take hold in the brain, and whether A-beta, like a prion, incites other versions of A-beta to misfold.

Alzheimer’s is a complicated disease that experts are still working to understand. In people with Alzheimer’s disease, the brain cells that process, store, and retrieve information degenerate ...

Alzheimer’s disease primarily affects people over the age of 65, but it’s never too early to be aware of the warning signs of this common brain disorder. And you may be able to detect them ...

Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative condition associated with abnormal bundles of protein in the brain called plaques and tangles. As it progresses, it causes problems with ...

Untangling the riddle of Alzheimer’s disease once seemed impossible. But curious researchers have made profound scientific headway, and drug development progress is bringing hope to millions.

A cholinergic agonist first developed in the 1990s for Alzheimer’s disease, xanomeline, was approved last year in combination with trospium chloride, a side-effect blocker, for the treatment of ...

Early-onset Alzheimer’s disease is a form of the progressive, memory-robbing brain condition that appears in people before the age of 65. It most often shows up when you're in your 40s and 50s.

Alzheimer's disease is the leading cause of dementia and is characterized by cognitive decline and brain deterioration. Despite extensive research, its precise causes remain unclear, and current ...

In mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease, hearing loss worsened the rodents’ already declining cognitive abilities. In both sets of mice, the team saw that expression of the gene GDF1 was ...