Alzheimer's News -- ScienceDaily
5 days ago · Learn about Alzheimer's Disease symptoms such as memory loss and senile dementia. Find out about the treatments and causes, as well as the stages of Alzheimer's Disease and dementia.
Researchers have found a protein that seems to protect brain cells …
Jul 24, 2024 · A study of 48 post-mortem brains found a protein that appears to protect brain cells from Alzheimer's — even in people who had significant amounts of amyloid plaques in their brains.
With new therapies that promise to slow Alzheimer’s disease ... - CNN
Jul 16, 2023 · Under new draft guidelines for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, unveiled on Sunday at a large international gathering of physicians and researchers, these memory tests would take a...
Start of new era for Alzheimer’s treatment — Harvard Gazette
Jun 5, 2023 · Researchers say we appear to be at the start of a new era for Alzheimer’s treatment. Trial results published in January showed that for the first time a drug has been able to slow the cognitive decline characteristic of the disease.
Alzheimer’s disease may damage the brain in two phases
Oct 15, 2024 · Alzheimer’s disease may damage the brain in two distinct phases, based on new research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) using sophisticated brain mapping tools.
Rare cases of possible Alzheimer’s transmission uncovered in ... - CNN
Jan 29, 2024 · Early-onset dementia symptoms in five adults may be connected to a now-discontinued human growth hormone medical treatment that they received decades ago as children, a new study suggests. The...
New Treatment Reverses Alzheimer’s Disease Signs
Dec 20, 2023 · PHILADELPHIA – A “chaperone” molecule that slows the formation of certain proteins reversed disease signs, including memory impairment, in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
First Alzheimer’s drug to slow disease progression gets full FDA ...
Jul 7, 2023 · The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday granted traditional full approval to the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi, the first medicine proven to slow the course of the memory-robbing disease.
Centiloid guidelines and recommendations released for clinical …
2 days ago · The members of the Amyloid imaging to prevent Alzheimer's disease (AMYPAD) have announced the publication of a perspective review on the interpretability and clinical application of the Centiloid ...
Study Suggests Genetics as a Cause, Not Just a Risk, for Some Alzheimer …
May 6, 2024 · Scientists are proposing a new way of understanding the genetics of Alzheimer’s that would mean that up to a fifth of patients would be considered to have a genetically caused form of the...