Alzheimer

Can we stay young forever or even recapture lost youth? The oldest living organism on Earth is a plant, Methuselah a bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) that is over 5000 years old. Conversely, animals only live up to a few hundred years.…

SACRAMENTO, Calif.) - A study of over 6,300 Latinos of Dominican, Central American, Cuban, Mexican Puerto Rican and South American heritage estimates that nearly 10% of middle-age and older Latinos in the U.S. meet the criteria for mild…

Nearly half of 50- to 64-year-olds think they're likely to develop dementia, but few have talked to a doctor reducing their risk and many use unproven tactics Nearly half of Americans in their 50s and early 60s think they're likely to…

Credit: University of Eastern Finland Up to one in five patients treated for idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus, iNPH, also develop Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland and…

Major genetic risk allele for Alzheimer's disease linked to microglia-specific role One might think that the primary cause of most genetically linked diseases comes from mutations in coding DNA -- alterations in coding regions of the…

Just two days of high-sugar diet increases susceptibility to colitis and worsens symptoms in mice, U of A researchers find. Short-term increases in sugar consumption could increase the risk of inflammatory bowel disease and have a…

The Alzheimer's Association and University College London (UCL) are partnering to study brain aging and dementia in 500 individuals whose health and health-related behaviors have been documented since birth. A $7 million grant from the…

Staying fit or improving fitness over time should be a goal for anyone who wants to reduce the likelihood of getting dementia. "It is important to say that it is never too late to begin exercising. The average participant in our study was…

Credit: rawpixel, Pixabay In a new research study published in the open access journal PLOS Medicine, Albert Hofman and colleagues at Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Harvard T.H. Chan School of…

Credit: Alzheimer's Association CHICAGO, November 13, 2019 - The Alzheimer's Association® announced that it has received a $1.34 million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to strengthen the current framework for…