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Credit: UCI School of Medicine Irvine, Calif. - September 23, 2019 - A University of California, Irvine-led team of scientists has discovered how newly identified neural circuits in the brain's hippocampal formation play a critical…

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Sept. 23, 2019) - Rice University researchers have found a way to track the formation of soluble amyloid beta peptide aggregates implicated in the onset of Alzheimer's disease. The Rice lab…

September 2019 journal digestCredit: Alzheimer's Association CHICAGO - A new study finds that individuals thought to be at an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and also have high blood pressure and a higher risk of…

Funding will support combined use of recent Nobel Prize-winning technology with a powerful new imaging method; lays groundwork for detecting, treating underlying causes of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Lewy body dementiaCredit: Fitzpatrick…

Researchers discover that two short strings of amino acids could pave the way to new treatments for Alzheimer's diseaseCredit: Jordan Carson Two years after discovering a way to neutralize a rogue protein linked to Alzheimer's disease,…

Just released new results in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease indicate that in-home treatment with a bioengineered head device emitting electromagnetic waves reversed memory impairment of Alzheimer's patients (AD)Credit: NeuroEM…

University of Houston researcher examines the linkCredit: University of Houston A University of Houston chemist is exploring the link between copper protein molecules in brain cells and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.…

Credit: Henna Konttinen A study carried out with a new human stem cell-derived model reveals that the most prevalent genetic risk factor of Alzheimer's disease (AD), apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4), impairs the function of human brain…

A drug commonly used to manage symptoms of Alzheimer disease and other dementias -- donepezil -- is associated with a two-fold higher risk of hospital admission for rhabdomyolysis, a painful condition of muscle breakdown, compared with…

Credit: Knowledge Technology Institute, UCM Researchers at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) have identified changes in retinal layer thickness, inflammation or thinning in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease, confirming…