Alzheimer's Disease

A dietitian shares the No. 1 food to add to your diet to boost your brain health

Health
Rachel Carter

Although our brains only take up 2% of our bodies, they take a lot of energy to run. In fact, 20% of ...

I’m curing my Alzheimer’s with these simple lifestyle changes

Health
Rachel Carter

Two Alzheimer’s sufferers are publicly claiming to have beaten back the deadly disease —  merely by adopting simple but strict changes in ...

Mitochondrial Boost Reverses Protein Clumping in Aging and Alzheimer’s

Health
Rachel Carter

Summary: A new study in worms reveals a core set of insoluble proteins linked to both aging and Alzheimer’s disease. These proteins ...

Resilience to Dementia: Having Alzheimer’s Pathology with No Symptoms

Health
Rachel Carter

Summary: A new study found that some individuals show no Alzheimer’s symptoms despite having the disease’s brain processes. This “resilient” group has ...

CNTN4 Protein’s Role in Autism and Alzheimer’s Unveiled

Health
Rachel Carter

Summary: A new study reveals the crucial role of the protein Contactin-4 (CNTN4) in neuron development, impacting both neurodevelopmental disorders and Alzheimer’s ...

tRNA Fragments Linked to Alzheimer’s

Health
Rachel Carter

Summary: A new study identifies a crucial factor in brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease—the accumulation of Glu-5’tsRNA-CTC in neuron mitochondria. This small ...

A subset of Alzheimer’s cases may be caused by two copies of a single gene, new research shows

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, researchers have identified a genetic form of late-in-life Alzheimer’s disease — in people who inherit ...

High-Fat Diet Fuels Alzheimer’s Disease, Study Shows

Health
Rachel Carter

A high-fat diet not only affects our waistlines and hearts, but can it also play a role in developing Alzheimer’s disease? A ...

Cycle of Decline: Neuron Aging in Alzheimer’s Unraveled

Health
Rachel Carter

Summary: Neurons in Alzheimer’s disease patients tend to re-enter the cell cycle and quickly progress to senescence. Using advanced snRNA-seq techniques, researchers ...

AI Links Gut Microbiome to Alzheimer’s

Health
Rachel Carter

Summary: Researchers are pioneering the use of artificial intelligence to explore how the gut microbiome influences Alzheimer’s disease. Their latest study employs ...