This article was produced in partnership with the Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors. While there are ...
Sunken eyes are eyes that appear dark or hollow. Possible causes include aging, sleep loss, dehydration, and trauma. Depending on the cause, medication and home remedies may help reduce their ...
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 ...
A person's ability to navigate could help to predict Alzheimer's disease years before symptoms appear, new research suggests Doctors have issued a warning that a sign of Alzheimer's could manifest ...
Aug. 23, 2021 — Amyloid plaques found in the retinas of eyes may be an indicator of similar plaques in the brain, a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, and may provide a more visible biomarker for ...
Scientists insist that early diagnosis of dementia – by watching out for subtle symptoms – is key Credit: E+ It’s well known that memory loss and confusion are one of the early signs and ...
A major Alzheimer's breakthrough may have been made as new vaccine is being trialled which could 'transform' lives, scientists have said. People who have the early stages of the condition could be ...
Testing for Alzheimer’s disease can be a long, costly, and tiresome process for patients, but researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital have been working to make the testing process easier ...
Optic neuritis is an inflammation of the optic nerve, a bundle of nerve fibers that relays visual information from the eye to the brain. The condition may cause vision disturbances that can ...
The discovery of a gene variant that rids the brain of toxic plaques linked to Alzheimer's might lead to new treatments for the disease, researchers report. The variant arises naturally in people ...
From the outside, my mother looked like she wasn’t the world’s biggest hockey fan. When my brother Brad played in the late-1970s Mom took her knitting to sit by herself, away from the chirping ...