Lower levels of "bad" LDL cholesterol could mean a lower risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, a new study says.

People with Type 2 diabetes are at a much higher risk for Alzheimer's disease than people without diabetes, and a new stud y ...

Valley of Forgetting” by Jennie Erin Smith details the efforts of scientists to aid the people of a community in which ...

Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia, is currently incurable. The current drugs available have very limited ...

Not getting enough of deeper stages of sleep raises the risk of brain deterioration associated with Alzheimer’s disease, a ...

Knight says that the method of transmission that Collinge identified is “extremely unusual,” and there’s no evidence that ...

A new blood test test could determine how far Alzheimer's has progressed and could also help confirm whether another ...

Worley was part of a team that showed how the loss of one of the two proteins used in the test disrupts synapses and leads to ...

The findings suggest that the shingles virus might play a role in causing at least a subset of dementia cases, Geldsetzer says, and the vaccine may protect against that. Alternatively, it could be ...

BIIB080 marks the first antisense oligonucleotide targeting tau to enter clinical development for the treatment of Alzheimer ...

Leqembi — sold through a partnership between Eisai Co. and Cambridge-based Biogen — is one of the first medications approved ...

Most people donning virtual reality (VR) goggles are seeking the thrill of being immersed in a fictitious video game world.