A Colombian man carried one of the most aggressive genetic mutations known to cause early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. By all ...

Social media influencers have been making bold claims that GLP-1 medications — the same drugs used for weight loss and ...

What’s in the past doesn’t always stay buried. A new study suggests that a hormone therapy harvested from human corpses may be linked to a rare, controversial form of Alzheimer’s disease. Though the ...

More than a century ago, Alois Alzheimer noted unusual changes in brain fats, which he described as "lipoid granules," along with the buildup of amyloid‐beta (amyloid) plaques and tau protein tangles.

How is it possible to spend tens of billions of dollars developing drugs to treat a serious disease that affects millions of ...

Alzheimer’s disease has devastated families for over a century. It was first identified in 1906 by Dr. Alois Alzheimer, who examined the brain of a patient suffering from severe memory loss, paranoia, ...

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Some octogenarians have exceptionally sharp memories, even sharper than people who are decades ...

From financial woes to a declining sense of smell, issues that seem unrelated to memory can signal a dementia diagnosis in ...

(Olga Pankova/Moment/Getty Images) Nutritional supplements are exploding in popularity, but some experts remain skeptical of ...