In a breakthrough human study, published in Eureka Alert, anti-oxidant, glutathione (GSH), which protects the brain from stress, has been found to be significantly depleted in Alzheimer’s patients compared to normal subjects. As GSH is a very important anti-oxidant that protects the brain from free radicals, the findings give us another measure to use when

As per a latest study published and to be presented at AAN 2018, Semantic intrusion (SI) errors may highlight specific breakdowns in memory associated with preclinical Alzheimer disease (AD); however, there have been no investigations to determine whether SI errors occur with greater frequency in persons with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) confirmed as amyloid

As per a news article reported in CNN, Bill Gates announced that he has joined a coalition of philanthropists who are investing $30 million to create a venture fund called Diagnostics Accelerator. “We need a better way of diagnosing Alzheimer’s — like a simple blood test or eye exam — before we’re able to slow

As per a latest article published in Journal of Alzheimer’s disease, three articles have very recently appeared that are of especial relevance to the causes of dementia and its potential treatment. The first two (Tsai et al., published in PLoS One in November 2017; Chen et al., published in the January/February 2018 issue of Journal

As per a research by UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists, Scientists have discovered a “Big Bang” of Alzheimer’s disease – the precise point at which a healthy protein becomes toxic but has not yet formed deadly tangles in the brain. The study from UT Southwestern’s O’Donnell Brain Institute provides novel insight into the shape-shifting nature