LATEST ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH NEWS YOU CAN USE

A new class of drugs called gamma-secretase modulators give doctors hope that these medications may offer effective new treatments for Alzheimer's.

Women over age 90 are significantly more likely to have dementia compared to men in their 90s...

Studies are conflicted on whether anti-inflammatories lower dementia risk.

Even Short-Term Use of Psychosis-Fighting Drugs Poses Dangers for Those With Alzheimer's

Use of bright lighting in senior care facilities was associated with improvement in dementia symptoms.

Smoking at midlife increases the risk of failing memory.

Flurizan, an experimental drug that had been undergoing late-stage testing, failed...

Expressing thoughts and feelings may help caregivers to make sense of a difficult situation.

Patients taking tarenflurbil had less functional decline in mid-size clinical trial.

Heavy drinkers and heavy smokers develop Alzheimer's disease years earlier than people with Alzheimer's who do not drink or smoke heavily, according to new research.

Those with high cholesterol in their early 40s are more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than those with low cholesterol.

New findings show that people with Alzheimer's disease who take vitamin E appear to live longer than those who don't take the vitamin.

Men who develop diabetes in mid-life significantly increased their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease later.

A large hippocampus -- a part of the brain devoted to memory -- may help ward off Alzheimer's disease, a new study reports.

A growing body of evidence suggests that a pattern of depression, even decades earlier, may up the risk for developing Alzheimer's.

About one in six female and one in 10 male baby boomers or more than 10 million people overall are expected to come down with Alzheimer's disease in the coming decades, a new report claims.

Having a thick middle in your middle years may increase your risk for dementia, a new study shows.

There may be multiple benefits for those with dementia to getting a diagnosis.

If both of your parents have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, you are at increased risk of developing the disease as well.

Alzheimer's like problems may be due to dementia from Parkinson's disease, the second most common degenerative nerve ailment after Alzheimer's.

A small study in which elderly men and woman received the popular herbal "memory booster" ginkgo biloba suggested that the herb may be beneficial in reducing the risk of dementia...

People in the most advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease most often live in nursing homes and are prone to respiratory infections, fevers and other ills...

Memory loss and thinking problems are becoming less common among older Americans, according to a new national survey of seniors aged 70 and older...seniors today tend to be more physically fit and suffer from less disability than earlier generations

People with early Alzheimer's disease had more car accidents and performed more poorly on road tests than their mentally sharp peers.