A common brain protein may be giving Alzheimer’s disease an unexpected way to spread, carrying toxic Tau proteins from ...

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive and permanent loss of nerve cells in the brain. The breakdown causes memory loss, ...

CADASIL, an inherited disease caused by mutations in the NOTCH3 gene, damages the brain’s small blood vessels, leading to ...

Summary: Alzheimer’s disease is pathologically characterized by the progressive accumulation of Tau, a structural protein that twists into toxic, suffocating tangles inside neurons. As this ...

Forgetting the name of a loved one may be one of the first signs people notice of dementia, but it's rarely the first warning sign your brain gives. Changes in the brain that lead to neurodegenerative ...

How diet, early chemical contact, genetic risk, and biological sex combine to shape memory function over a lifetime remains a ...

For decades, scientists studying Alzheimer’s disease have seen the same troubling pattern. Harmful proteins collect inside ...

Scientists have discovered a tiny group of neurons in an ancient brain region that acts like a built-in focus filter, helping ...

These short anomaly-detection puzzles are designed to illustrate how reasoning often depends on identifying inconsistencies ...

Ever wonder why you can’t imagine a sensation you’ve never felt? Your mind constructs visions of the future using only the ...

A large analysis of brain imaging and clinical data from more than 17,000 older adults is revealing a more complex picture of Alzheimer’s disease risk across populations.