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A new kind of antibody targets a feature shared by proteins thought to cause the most damage in Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and related conditions, creating potential for a unified treatment approach. The findings are part of a study published…

New artificial intelligence research has demonstrated the predictive capability of AI to determine in advance who is likely to develop dementia. Scientists used artificial intelligence techniques and big data to develop an algorithm capable of recognizing the signatures of dementia…

Alzheimer’s disease manifest itself with widely divergent symptoms and, so far, its various expressions have mainly been observed through the behaviour and actions of patients. Researchers have now produced images showing the changes in the brain associated with these symptoms…

A large, long-term study suggests that middle-aged people who have vascular health risk factors, including diabetes, high blood pressure and smoking, have a greater chance of suffering from dementia later in life. The study was published in JAMA Neurology. The…

People who get less rapid eye movement (REM) sleep may have a greater risk of developing dementia, according to a new study published in the August 23, 2017, online issue of Neurology. REM sleep is the sleep stage when dreaming…

Microglia, the brain’s immune cells responsible for eliminating pathogens and cellular waste, may live longer than researchers originally believed. A new study, published in an advance online publication of the journal Nature Neuroscience, shows that in mice these scavenger cells…

Researchers studying the effects of immune cells surrounding blood vessels in the brain have discovered a new pathway involving these cells that may contribute to the cause of Alzheimer’s disease. One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease is the accumulation…