Alzheimer’s and Dementia

For decades, one of the most striking and often overlooked features of Alzheimer’s disease is this: it affects women about twice as often as men. Why would that be? Is it simply that women live longer?...

For decades, we’ve been asking the wrong question about Alzheimer’s disease. We have focused intensely on what to remove, amyloid plaques, without fully understanding who is responsible for removing them. Th...

At first glance, autism and Alzheimer’s disease appear to exist at opposite ends of the neurological spectrum, one a condition of early brain development, the other a disease of later-life degeneration. But ...

A 25-year prospective analysis from the Malmö Diet and Cancer cohort evaluated the associations between high-fat and low-fat dairy intake and incident dementia in 27,670 Swedish adults. Dietary assessment co...

A major new study published in JAMA followed more than 131,000 men and women for up to 43 years and offers reassuring news for coffee drinkers. Researchers looked at long-term consumption of caffeinated coff...

In late 2024, the Alzheimer’s Association (AA) introduced new diagnostic criteria suggesting that Alzheimer’s disease can be identified in people who are completely cognitively normal, solely on the basis of...

In the context of the lack of any meaningful treatment for dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, the recent discovery of a new medication that has been shown to be associated with dementia risk reductio...

With the increasing availability of direct-to-consumer genetic testing, more and more people are learning their APOE status, and for many, this discovery brings both curiosity and concern. Carrying one or tw...

For years, we’ve known that moderate coffee consumption is linked to a lower risk of several chronic diseases, including Parkinson’s, type 2 diabetes, and even Alzheimer’s. Now, new research from the Journal...

We’ve long known that air pollution threatens our lungs and heart, but scientists are now showing that it may also damage our brains. A new study published in JAMA Neurology has found strong evidence linking...