Alzheimer’s and Dementia

For decades, the search for the cause of Alzheimer's disease has focused on genes, amyloid plaques, and the promise of new medications. But a growing body of research is revealing something far more immediat...

A remarkable study by Dean Ornish, MD, and Rudolph Tanzi, PhD, published in Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy (2024), is challenging long-held assumptions about Alzheimer’s disease and reinforcing a message...

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...