Mar. 31, 2025 — New research reveals that lower proportions of specific sleep stages are associated with reduced brain volume in regions vulnerable to the development of Alzheimer's disease over ...

Your loved one's treatments will depend on the type they have. Many older people fear that they have Alzheimer's disease because they can't find their eyeglasses or remember someone's name.

Scientists have long been racking their brains for ways to treat Alzheimer’s disease, the most common type of dementia. Turns out that the answer may lie within our own brains. Researchers from ...

Randall Bateman, MD, Charles F and Joanne Knight Distinguished Professor of Neurology at WashU Medicine. A study of Roche's anti-amyloid drug gantenerumab has suggested that early treatment to ...

Not spending enough time in the two deep stages of sleep — slow-wave and rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep — may hasten the deterioration of parts of the brain associated with Alzheimer’s ...

A puzzling discovery has left doctors scratching their heads: The brain of an American woman with Down syndrome showed all the classic signs of Alzheimer’s disease, yet she remained symptom-free ...

Short-term memory loss can be a sign of early-stage Alzheimer's disease. It can manifest as difficulty creating new memories or problems retrieving them. For example, someone with early Alzheimer's ...

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An experimental drug appears to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's-related dementia in people destined to develop the disease in their 30s, 40s or 50s, according to the results of a new study.

Age at menopause may interact with factors related to the health of synapses, or nerve cell connections, to influence the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in women, a study found. Associations between ...

The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer's disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest with recent years witnessing several important controversies. One year earlier, in June 2021 ...