A Newark screening initiative revealed severe cognitive decline among isolated, low-income seniors—prompting Rutgers researchers to launch a new intervention program. When Payto ...

Recently FDA-approved treatments work to clear clumps of the protein amyloid beta in the brain. A drug that instead goes after tangles of the protein tau can yield similar cognitive outcomes, a new st ...

Maurice Benard has been part of the fabric of the ABC soap opera since August 13, 1993; now the three-time Daytime Emmy Award-winning star has opened up about which of his many st ...

A human biologist told Newsweek that Alzheimer's research should stop focusing on one molecule and study the wider system.

A Purple Alert was issued July 23 for a missing Tampa woman Amber Rhoads, 27. It's the second time this month a Purple Alert was issued for Rhoads. What criteria is used to issue a Purple Alert? A ...

Sleeping for more than 8.5 hours a night was associated with blood biomarkers of tau protein in a new study, suggesting that excessive sleep may indicate early neurodegeneration.

Many people assume that some memory decline is an inevitable consequence of getting older. But a select group of older adults ...

New biomarker tests can help prevent devastating misdiagnoses. Beacon Hill should ensure that every patient can access them.

The study found that the key parts of the brains of people who told researchers they watched TV "very often" during their midlife years were found to have smaller structures.

Beloved actor and activist Danny Glover is opening up publicly about living with Alzheimer’s disease at age 79, sharing that ...

The lipid-lowering drug obicetrapib produces the greatest reductions in the Alzheimer’s biomarker p-tau217 among APOE4 ...