In people and mice deprived of sleep, researchers found an increase in tau, a protein involved in Alzheimer’s disease, in the fluid bathing the brain.

Scientists have found preliminary evidence that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and other compounds found in marijuana can promote the cellular removal of amyloid beta, a toxic protein associated with Alzheimer's disease.

An experimental vaccine that could hold off Alzheimer's disease is showing results in animal testing, according to researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Testing in mice has shown that the vaccine safely prevents the buildup of substances in the brain associated with the fatal disease, the team reported this week in the journal Alzheimer's Research & Therapy.

Stigma often prevents patients from acknowledging an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. A series of high-profile disclosures may help change that.

Alzheimer’s is a spectrum disorder that exhibits differently in everyone. Learn how to treat the individual in this informative interview with neurologist Gayatri Devi, M.D.

Detroit Tigers great Bill Freehan taught us how to live. Now, at the end stages, his wife is teaching us something even more important.

The number of dementia cases is predicted to more than double in the next three decades.

The Netherlands is pioneering new ways to treat dementia, with sensory aids, soothing music and other tools to calm and nurture patients.

Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer’s. By Stephen Granade.

Scientists find that a drug meant for another illness may significantly help Alzheimer's patients.

As the number of people with Alzheimer's climbs, so does the number of loved ones caring for them. The health of 16 million unpaid U.S. caregivers has become a focus for Alzheimer's advocacy groups.

An active compound in marijuana called tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) has been found to promote the removal of toxic clumps of amyloid beta protein in the brain, which are thought to kickstart the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

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If pharmaceuticals can’t save you, maybe you can save yourself by changing your lifestyle. Norman Swan explains how.

Dementia is being missed by hospital doctors in four in ten cases, research shows. The study by University College London found medical staff are routinely treating patients without realising that they had been diagnosed with dementia. Researchers said the failure to properly record their illness meant vulnerable elderly people were being discharged from hospital with instructions to take crucial medication, without medics realising that they were likely to be suffering from memory problems.

Among Ron Grantham's happiest memories are the days he spent fly-fishing with his beloved dog, Spot. Now those memories are being revived by visits from his new best friend, Biscuit - a robotic dog.

The popular conception of Alzheimer's is as an inevitable outcome of aging or bad genes. But much of the risk is related to behavioral and lifestyle factors.

Included in the list of drugs published in the guide that cause dementia-like symptoms are antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, sedatives, corticosteroids, narcotics, antihistamines, cardiovascular drugs, and anticonvulsants. It’s a very broad range of drugs, and many elderly people take medications from one or more of those categories.

​As is the case with so many other maladies, the sooner that Parkinson's disease is definitively diagnosed, the better. With that in mind, scientists from UCLA now believe that it may be possible to detect the disease earlier than ever, via analysis of the patient's tears.

Alcohol use disorders are the most important preventable risk factors for the onset of all types of dementia, especially early-onset dementia. This according to a nationwide observational study of over one million adults diagnosed with dementia in France.