Early onset familial Alzheimer disease (eFAD) is hereditary and marked by Alzheimer disease symptoms that appear at an unusually early age. Symptoms can start in a person's thirties, forties, and ...

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease characterized by the progressive degeneration ...

Early onset Alzheimer’s disease is Alzheimer’s disease that starts before age 65. It’s rare under age 30 and more commonly affects people ages 50 and over. Early detection and treatment can ...

Mertes Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Kansas, and colleagues have previously shown that mutations found in early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD) prevent γ-secretase from ...

However, in Alzheimer’s disease, changes that occur in the brain ... There are very, very rare familial forms of Alzheimer’s that are inherited from your parents, but they’re generally ...

No cure has been found for Alzheimer’s disease, which isn’t considered a preventable condition. Anti-inflammatory diets may help slow the progression of the disease and also reduce the risk of ...

A study of rare familial genetic mutations linked to early-onset dementia supports the idea that stalled protein processing contributes to Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is likely ...