By Tarun Sai Lomte Scientists directly compared two leading pTau217 blood tests and found that a brain-derived version may detect Alzheimer’s-related brain pathology more accurately while avoiding ...

Alzheimer’s disease remains a frustratingly difficult condition to manage for the millions of patients affected worldwide and their families. The cause of the disease is still not properly ...

Accumulation of the protein tau in the brain is one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease. In a paper published in Cell ...

In 2020, Ashley Harms, Ph.D., and University of Alabama at Birmingham colleagues published an Acta Neuropathologica study that used a mouse model to show that the alpha-synuclein pathology from ...

For 10 years, a woman with Down syndrome defied what many scientists believed to be an inevitability. Despite carrying the neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease—amyloid beta plaques and ...

A University of New Mexico scientist is revealing what might be one of the most overlooked causes of dementia — damage in the brain’s tiny blood vessels. Dr. Elaine Bearer has created a new way to ...

A higher adherence to the MIND diet was tied with lower odds of hippocampal sclerosis in an autopsy study. Mediation analyses showed that the MIND diet was associated with less dementia at the time of ...

Professor of Pathology, Lee J. Martin, discusses the prevalence and treatment challenges associated with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) ...