Sex differences in tau may help explain why women face higher Alzheimer's dementia risk than men. At high levels of brain amyloid-beta, women had more aggressive tau accumulation than men ...

Researchers at Northwestern University have made a breakthrough in identifying a way for Alzheimer's disease to be treated far more effectively in the future – using the brain's own immune cells.

Scientists have long been racking their brains for ways to treat Alzheimer’s disease, the most common type of dementia. Turns out that the answer may lie within our own brains. Researchers from ...

Among Older Women, Hormone Therapy Linked to Tau Accumulation, a Hallmark of Alzheimer's Disease Mar. 5, 2025 — A new study has found faster accumulation of tau -- a key indicator of Alzheimer's ...

Two Alzheimer’s blood tests, one from Spear Bio and another from Beckman Coulter, were also designated breakthroughs. Most of the companies in the latest batch are small startups and have ...

A puzzling discovery has left doctors scratching their heads: The brain of an American woman with Down syndrome showed all the classic signs of Alzheimer’s disease, yet she remained symptom-free ...

They found that participants could successfully take the ... Study Confirms Accuracy of Blood Test for Early Alzheimer's Detection in Asian Populations Mar. 24, 2025 — A study has demonstrated ...

Accumulation of a protein called TDP-43 is a key feature of ALS and frontotemporal dementia. In a study published in Neuron, researchers report 'seeding' this accumulation through fragments of the ...

The collection, published Wednesday, highlights studies on the interplay between hormones, chromosomes and dementia, including findings with implications for men as well as women. It also features ...

More than 120 years ago, in November 1901, German Dr. Alois Alzheimer took on a patient—a 51-year-old woman with “presenile dementia” who’d become paranoid, lost her sense of self ...

John Yang: A new study shows that Americans risk of developing dementia at any time after turning 55 is more than double what earlier research found. The New York University study estimates that ...