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Is It Alzheimer's Disease or Another Dementia? Marker May Give More Accurate Diagnosis
November 30, 2011 — New research finds a marker used to detect plaque in the brain may help doctors make a more accurate diagnosis between two common types of dementia -- Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar ... > full story -
Early Sign of Alzheimer's Reversed in Lab
November 30, 2011 — One of the earliest known impairments caused by Alzheimer's disease -- loss of sense of smell -- can be restored by removing a plaque-forming protein in a mouse model of the disease, a new study ... > full story -
Eating Fish Reduces Risk of Alzheimer's Disease, Study Finds
November 30, 2011 — People who eat baked or broiled fish on a weekly basis may be improving their brain health and reducing their risk of developing mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease, according to a new ... > full story -
People With Early Alzheimer's Disease May Be More Likely to Have Lower BMI
November 21, 2011 — Studies have shown that people who are overweight in middle age are more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease decades later than people at normal weight, yet researchers have also found that people ... > full story -
Does Hypertension Affect Brain Capacity?
November 21, 2011 — Can the course of dementias and mild cognitive impairment be influenced by diseases and risk factors? Larger numbers of people are affected by mild cognitive impairments and dementia, which means ... > full story -
Tangled Web in Alzheimer's Protein Deposits Is More Complex Than Once Thought
November 1, 2011 — Scientists have made a discovery that will change the direction of Alzheimer's research. They found that the protein tangles, which are a hallmark of Alzheimer's, involve three different proteins ... > full story -
People With Dementia Less Likely to Return Home After Stroke
October 31, 2011 — New research shows people with dementia who have a stroke are more likely to become disabled and not return home compared to people who didn't have dementia at the time they had a ... > full story -
New Ways of Treating Alzheimer’s
October 31, 2011 — Several potential drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer’s have worked well on mice, but getting the drugs to work in humans has proven more challenging. A leading researcher from Sweden is now ... > full story -
New Findings Contradict Dominant Theory in Alzheimer's Disease
October 28, 2011 — For decades the amyloid hypothesis has dominated the research field in Alzheimer’s disease. The theory describes how an increase in secreted beta-amyloid peptides leads to the formation of ... > full story -
Mood, Cognition and Sleep Patterns Improve in Alzheimer's Patients After Cataract Surgery, Study Finds
October 25, 2011 — Researchers in France have found that patients with mild Alzheimer's disease whose vision improved after cataract surgery also showed improvement in cognitive ability, mood, sleep patterns and other ... > full story
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