A man who should have developed early-onset Alzheimer's disease due to a genetic mutation is still symptom-free in his 70s.

Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell announced Thursday that he would not seek reelection to the Senate after his ...

Now, several publications and presentations at the recent Alzheimer’s Association International Conference have demonstrated that blood tests measuring amyloid and tau proteins have become much more ...

Two widely touted Alzheimer’s drugs have been shown to enable patients to remain in their homes for longer periods of time.

A new biomarker test can detect early-stage tau protein clumping up to a decade before it appears on brain scans, improving early Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Unlike amyloid-beta, tau neurofibrillary ...

These various tests are at different stages of validation – assuring they’re accurate across many different populations. And, for each protein, there are several different met ...

There are two significant, nonscientific obstacles – a shortage of funding and patent law – that will require concerted effort by scientists, concerned citizens, society and our lawmakers to overcome.

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have devised a biomarker test that can spot small amounts of clumping tau protein ...

Research by the ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Research Center proposes that a common herpes virus may travel through the body ...

Researchers have developed a test that spots early signs of Alzheimer's disease. Rather than looking for amyloid-beta plaques ...

In a novel theory, scientists at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute propose a unifying explanation for the ...