According to Dr. Karolina Armonaitė, a neuroscientist from Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania, a more precise understanding of what happens in different areas of the cerebral cortex during ...

We read with great interest the Article by Randall J Bateman and colleagues investigating long-term gantenerumab treatment in dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease.1 This important work provides ...

A novel MRI-based ‘aging’ clock may offer a simple way to identify patients whose biological age is outpacing their ...

Dementia, as a clinical diagnosis, is largely a disease of deficit—impairments of memory, orientation, judgment, and executive functioning.

An autopsy study of a 45-year-old former U.S. Navy crewman with severe chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) suggested that repetitive high-speed boat impacts with waves can contribute to CTE. ( JAMA ...

Structural brain changes identified up to 15 years before Alzheimer's symptoms in people with Down syndrome by Sant Pau Research Institute ...

Hallucinations, cortical visual loss, advanced brain atrophy, and a normal CSF white blood cell count are tied to rapidly progressive dementia.

This imaging showed "noticeable amyloid deposition in diffuse cortical areas, particularly in the bilateral frontal, parietal, temporal cortices, and posterior cingulated gyrus," the team reported.

A new USC-led study, published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, has uncovered a significant link between type 2 diabetes mellitus and cortical ...

Gemma Illingworth was 28 when she was diagnosed with posterior cortical atrophy, a rare form of dementia ...

The family of a woman who passed away as a result of being diagnosed with a rare form of dementia has opened up about thinking she simply 'required a bit more support' rather than having such a ...

The study, published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia, revealed that middle-aged adults who increased their physical activity showed lower levels of amyloid-beta in their brains, the sticky protein fragments ...