A man from the world’s largest known Alzheimer’s family should have lost his memory by his late 40s. Every other carrier of ...

Are anti-amyloid drugs as effective against Alzheimer’s disease as experts had hoped? Image credit: smodj/Getty Images Some of these medications include anti-amyloid drugs, which work to remove ...

Unusual resilience: A Colombian man with a mutation for early-onset Alzheimer’s stayed symptom-free for decades longer due to a rare reelin gene variant. Plaque-clearing potential: Research suggests ...

Alzheimer's Disease," Cleveland Clinic behavioral neurologist Jagan Pillai, MD, PhD, and host Glenn Campbell continue their ...

A new study provides a well-needed glimmer of hope for treating Alzheimer’s disease. Focusing on a genetic form of early-onset dementia called dominantly inherited Alzheimer’s disease, scientists have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration depicts cells in an Alzheimer’s-affected brain, with abnormal levels of beta amyloid protein clumping together to ...

A major review challenges a long-standing strategy in Alzheimer’s research, suggesting that removing a hallmark brain protein ...

A newly published Cochrane systematic review examining amyloid-beta-targeting monoclonal antibodies in Alzheimer's disease ...

In the quest to cure Alzheimer's, the protein known as beta-amyloid has long taken center stage, driving development of a long list of drugs aimed at breaking up amyloid plaques in the brain. A team ...

Drugs designed to clear amyloid beta from the brain—once seen as a promising path to slowing Alzheimer’s—may not actually ...

Scientists have discovered a way to help the brain clean itself of harmful Alzheimer’s plaques by activating its own support cells. By increasing a protein called Sox9, researchers were able to boost ...

In the 1980s, researchers studying the autopsied brains of people with Alzheimer’s discovered that they were clogged with sticky plaques made from beta amyloid proteins and toxic tangles made of a ...