In a 2020 analysis led by the National Institute on Aging, (NIA), scientists suggest that bacteria that cause gum disease are also associated with the development of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, especially vascular dementia. The results were reported in the Journal of Alzheimer’s disease.

Rather than seeking a single cure — a magic bullet — for Alzheimer’s disease, a shotgun blast of different drugs with different targets may be a better approach to this very complex condition.

Northwestern researchers made progress on new biochemical possibilities this week, in both the human brain and everyday farming soil. The Daily compiled a recap of these developments. Using the immune system to stop the “amyloid cascade” of Alzheimer’s Researchers at NU’s Feinberg School of Medicine recently discovered how different genes affect amyloid beta treatments

"Alzheimer's disease is a brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and, eventually, the ability to carry out the simplest tasks," Achrekar said. "It is the most common cause of dementia among older adults." Diagnoses of the memory-loss disease normally happens after the age of 60.

Confirmed speakers for the purple lighting ceremony include: Secretary Michelle Branham, Florida Department of Elder Affairs Cari Eyre, Dementia Director, Florida Department of Elder Affairs Senator Danny Burgess, sponsor of SB 398 Awareness Program for Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia-related Disorders

Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller was the first Black psychiatrist and neurologist in the United States but has long been overlooked.

Researchers analyzed the brain of a woman with down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease, and were shocked to discover that despite having all the “brain changes” of the disease, her cognitive functioning remained “intact.

Women over 70 had a faster accumulation of tau in their brains if they’d taken hormone therapy for menopause symptoms more than a decade before, according to a new report in Sci