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Learn about the genetic risk factors associated with familial Alzheimer's disease and the potential for future gene therapies.
Vascular dementia is caused by damage to brain cells due to reduced blood circulation or blockage of the brain’s blood vessels. Learn how this spectrum of cognitive disorders differs from Alzheimer's.
Learn some helpful tips that may delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease or reduce the speed of its destructive course.
This article explores the normal symptoms associated with cognitive aging, and symptoms that are more severe and could be indicative of Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia.
Frontotemporal dementias are less prevalent than Alzheimer’s disease, but they are every bit as destructive. Learn more about this brain disease.
The role of alcohol use as a risk factor for dementia is complicated. At different times, alcohol has been seen as protective, harmful, or incidental to the risk of dementia. Each of these views is partially correct, and the entire story is not yet fully known. This article discusses some of what we do know.
Learn how the immune system and inflammation play a role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease, and how targeting specific elements of the inflammatory process could be useful in treating or preventing this brain disorder.
Amyloid PET scans allow, for the first time, accurate detection of amyloid plaques—one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease—in living people. The scans may help clinicians proceed with greater knowledge and assurance, and patients will be able to have greater confidence in their diagnoses and treatment recommendations. This article explains what PET scans are and how they are currently used, and provides an update on a new clinical trial that will deliver important information on how the scans will be used in the future.
This article discusses recent findings concerning the burden that Alzheimer's disease imposes on the African American community, and some of the recommendations that are being made in order to address this disparity.
A doctor answers the most frequent questions that he gets from patients and families regarding Alzheimer's disease.
