Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative disease characterized by accumulation of beta-amyloid in extracellular plaques and tau protein in intracellular neurofibrillary tangles ...

While progress has been made to influence the treatment landscape of Alzheimer’s disease, gaps to widespread therapeutic ...

Impaired memory and thinking are the most common symptoms associated with a dementia diagnosis. But noncognitive symptoms can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While dementia and Alzheimer’s disease are terms that are often used interchangeably, they don’t mean the same thing.

"Alzheimer's disease impacts too many people, more than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined." ...

New studies point to the power of testing for and treating tau, a protein that builds up in Alzheimer’s disease, instead of ...

In an exciting breakthrough, researchers have identified cancer drugs that might reverse the effects of Alzheimer's disease in the brain. By analyzing gene expression in brain cells, they discovered ...

New research has demonstrated a mechanistic link between the immune response to herpesviruses—the family of viruses related ...

Research presented this week at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in London suggests that the use of blood ...