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Download the spring 2014 issue of our Alzheimer’s disease newsletter to learn about 14 new genes linked to early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, a potential link between concussions and Alzheimer’s, and much more.
Download the summer 2014 issue of our Alzheimer's disease newsletter and learn about a blood test with a 90% success rate for predicting Alzheimer's, a link between cardiovascular and brain health, and much more.
Download the fall 2014 issue of our Alzheimer’s disease newsletter to learn about a drug compound that reversed Alzheimer’s effects on memory in mice, new grants that will fund Alzheimer’s research, and much more.
After centuries of health and economic disparity, women have emerged as a strong force in the U.S. and worldwide. Yet a crisis of inequality looms ahead.
BrightFocus grantee Huaxi Xu, PhD and colleagues at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in La Jolla, CA, have published a paper that sheds light on the origins and connections between the characteristic amyloid plaques found in the brains of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and the predisposition of individuals with Down syndrome to develop the same plaques, and exhibit Alzheimer’s-type dementia, as they age.
This week, at a meeting in Bethesda, MD, a group of experts pondered what works to measure "clinical meaningfulness" in drug development for early Alzheimer's disease.
A leading government science officer addressed BrightFocus grantees attending our annual breakfast sponsored during the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting, which was held in Washington, DC, this week.
More than 250 science journalists covered the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, DC, this week. Two close colleagues of BrightFocus took part in press conferences to explain new directions in Alzheimer’s research.