Alzheimer’s disease progresses in stages. In stage 1, there are no symptoms, but imaging scans may show brain changes. By stage 5, the effect on a person’s mental and physical health can be ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Investigators have discovered how brain cells responsible for working memory -- the type required to remember a phone number long enough to dial it -- coordinate intentional ...
Nine months into the U.S. launch of the first drug proven to slow the advance of Alzheimer's, Eisai and Biogen's Leqembi is ...
In a recent study, researchers suggest that a newly identified genetic variant may protect against Alzheimer's disease, ...
Sundowning is a group of symptoms that many people with dementia get in the late afternoon and early evening. It includes confusion, trouble sleeping, anxiety, wandering, and hallucinations.
More information: Renzo Mancuso et al, Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer's disease-related amyloid-β pathology, Nature Neuroscience (2024 ...
When I turned 60, my primary-care physician said something profound: “There is no reason for someone to wake up in this day and age and find that they have advanced colon cancer.” It was a ...
Familial Alzheimer’s disease can be transferred via bone marrow transplant, researchers show March 28 in the journal Stem Cell Reports. When the team transplanted bone marrow stem cells from ...
More than 6 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia. There’s no cure, but Leqembi ...
The study reports the keto diet can slow the arrival of mild cognitive loss that signals the development of Alzheimer’s disease. It goes on to say that a low-carb, high-fat keto diet results in ...
Familial Alzheimer's disease can be transferred via bone marrow transplant, researchers show March 28 in the journal Stem Cell Reports.When the team transplanted bone marrow stem cells from mice ...
In this model of heritable Alzheimer's disease, mice usually begin developing plaques at nine to 10 months of age, and behavioral signs of cognitive decline begin to appear at 11 to 12 months of age.