The disease afflicts nearly seven million Americans, about one in every nine people over the age of 65, making it a leading ...

"Taking Care" focuses on Lauren Miller Rogen's mother, Adele, a longtime Lakeland resident who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's ...

About a million Americans a year are expected to develop dementia by 2060, roughly double today’s toll, researchers reported ...

This manuscript describes the identification and characterization of 12 specific phosphomimetic mutations in the recombinant full-length human tau protein that trigger tau to form fibrils. This ...

Librarian Kathlynn Short armed with over 40 vibrant picture books, is on a mission to rekindle the joy of recognition in ...

There are two kinds of risk factors for dementia: non-modifiable and modifiable. Non-modifiable risk factors are ones that cannot be changed or eliminated, like aging, family history and genetics.

When Angi McClusky's husband Michael developed younger-onset Alzheimer's disease in 2015 just after his 65 th birthday, the ...

and among people with Alzheimer’s disease compared with other forms of dementia. “Although hard to fully capture at a group level, our results suggest time to nursing home admission might be ...

That underscores “the disproportionate burden of early-onset dementia, where patients face a lengthy course of the disease alongside the loss of productive and active years,” added Dumurgier ...

So when something's wrong with it, you might notice: White matter disease is different from Alzheimer's disease, which affects the brain's gray matter. If you're having memory problems or a loved ...

There is evidence that Crohn’s disease is genetic, though environmental factors may also be involved. Crohn’s disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that causes inflammation in ...

It can help identify people at risk of Alzheimer's disease and screen for conditions like Parkinson's disease, brain tumors, substance abuse, and head trauma. Introduced in 2005, the MoCA test is an ...