Most types of dementia involve memory loss, impaired thinking skills, and loss of independence. Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia, and some new diagnostic tests can help ...

Researchers say AI can predict Alzheimer’s disease with close to 93 percent accuracy - More than 7 million Americans are living with the degenerative neurological disorder ...

More than 7 million Americans aged 65 and older have Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. Yet average wait times for a dementia diagnosis range from 12 months to nearly four years.

What happens when a promising therapy falls short? Medscape spoke with Jeffrey Cummings, MD, who led the EVOKE trials of the GLP-1 semaglutide for AD, about what the results mean — and what comes next ...

A scientist looks at hypometabolic and hypoperfusion patterns at the single-subject level from a patient suffering from ...

Medicare beneficiaries 65 years and older who participated in five to six weeks of cognitive speed training with follow-up sessions three years later were less likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's ...

A 20-year follow-up of older adults in the ACTIVE randomized trial linked to Medicare claims found that speed of processing cognitive training with booster sessions was associated with a significantly ...

Although urinary tract infections (UTIs) are typically minor—albeit painful—health issues for most people, they can pose ...

Summary: Women make up nearly two-thirds of Alzheimer’s patients, and researcher may have just discovered a massive reason why. A new study found that when the protein alpha-synuclein (typically ...