Alzheimer’s disease — which affects an estimated 7 million Americans — is notoriously difficult to detect, especially in its ...

Alzheimer's disease, a type of dementia that profoundly alters a person’s memory and cognitive function, affects an estimated ...

Researchers have developed a test that spots early signs of Alzheimer's disease. Rather than looking for amyloid-beta plaques ...

Years before tau tangles show up in brain scans of patients with Alzheimer's disease, a biomarker test developed at the ...

Amyloid-beta: As Alzheimer’s disease develops ... “Once the tau tangles light up on a brain scan,” explains Karikari, “it may ...

Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s,” Charles Piller looks how the amyloid hypothesis took over ...

Second, there exists no “amyloid cabal.” Many other features of Alzheimer’s have been researched over decades. Although my colleagues and I and many others have published extensively on the ...

This study adds to the growing evidence that Alzheimer’s disease may start long before traditional symptoms appear. The fact ...

Amyloid pathology was determined by positive cerebrospinal fluid tests or PET scans. The presence of depressive symptoms was assessed by validated depression rating scale scores, evidence of a ...