An Italian family hit hard by Alzheimer’s offers ... genetic cases are very useful to get a clearer idea of what could have gone wrong”. The next step should be to test the gene mutation ...

Genetic mutations that cause early Alzheimer’s are among the most predictable and devastating in all of medicine. The idea that people could carry these mutations without developing the disease ...

A global review reveals over 100 new dementia drugs which could halt or even reverse the disease are going through clinical ...

"The scale at which we analyzed the amyloid peptides was unprecedented," said Ben Lehner of the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Scientists have found that lemborexant not only increased restorative sleep in male mice but also reduced levels of toxic tau ...

A new large-scale study has mapped the first molecular events that drive the formation of harmful amyloid protein aggregates ...

Early-onset Alzheimer’s, usually seen in patients under 65, is typically linked to identifiable genetic mutations ... these rare early-onset cases could provide new insights into the disease ...

The North African Dementia Registry ... but the genetic risk is spread across 100s, maybe even 1000s of genes, each of which contributes only a small fraction towards the total genetic risk. At this ...

Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) has long stood apart from Alzheimer’s disease-rarer, younger in onset, and devoid of any ...

The National Institutes of Health are collectively America's top medical research funding body. It is now grappling with layoffs, halted studies and blocked funds. Researchers fear global consequences ...

Importantly, researchers have estimated that even a modest delay in disease onset ... were prioritized in guidelines for dementia prevention, the benefits could be far-reaching, resulting in ...