Scientists have identified a biomarker for Alzheimer's that may help doctors spot the early signs of protein buildup in the ...

Years before tau tangles show up in brain scans of patients with Alzheimer's disease, a biomarker test can detect small amounts of the clumping-prone tau protein and its misfolded pathological forms ...

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

Researchers investigated cerebral small vessel disease, a precursor to dementia, by analyzing data from thousands of ...

This test can help detect the tangled proteins years in advance of them appearing prominently in brain scans – as much as up to a decade. That's heartening because Alzheimer's disease not only ...

Early onset Alzheimer’s disease is Alzheimer’s disease ... or computed tomography (CT) scans of the brain. There may also be blood tests to rule out other disorders. Your doctor will be ...

A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney.

A study reveals that traumatic brain injury alters the small vessels in the brain, resulting in an accumulation of amyloid beta -- a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. The findings suggest that vascular ...

Researchers at Cedars-Sinai have found that some people diagnosed with a serious type of dementia may actually have a ...

Edelmayer, Ph.D., Alzheimer’s Association vice president of scientific engagement in Chicago. A fragment of an image of an elderly person’s brain scan on magnetic resonance imaging MRI film ...

The presence of neurofibrillary tangles in the brain is one of the key hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease. These irregular clumps of protein are closely associated with disease progression.

Scientists know that a build-up of specific proteins in the brain is associated with Alzheimer’s disease. However, by the time these proteins have become visible in brain scans, disease ...