Category: New research findings

In 2015, the late Dr. Martha Clare Morris and her colleagues at Rush University published their first paper on the effects of following the MIND diet on risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease. The MIND...

Abnormal tau protein found in neurofibrillary tangles can be found in the brain at least several years before the onset of cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease. Now a fascinating Dutch study of 78 cognitively normal,...

We’ve talked a lot so far about clinical trials of several so-called disease-modifying drugs for Alzheimer’s disease. These are medications designed to slow and perhaps even stop the progression of Alzheimer’s. Most of them so...

I was interested to see the report from the Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease conference held in Boston last week demonstrating a reduction of a blood marker for neurofibrillary tangles in the brain, p-tau...

For over twenty years, there has been growing evidence of the importance of inflammation in Alzheimer’s disease.  For a comprehensive review of this topic, follow this link to a 2018 paper in Alzheimer’s & Dementia. Briefly,...

In the September 14 issue of the journal Neurology, Alzheimer’s experts have offered their opinions in one editorial and two viewpoint papers, one pro and one against, concerning the FDA approval of aducanumab, now known...

Ever since Dr. Allen Roses and his group at Duke reported in the 1990s that people carrying the APOE-4 gene are at greater risk for getting Alzheimer’s, there has been uncertainty about how a gene that...

Abnormal tau protein is found in the neurofibrillary tangles found in nerve cells in the brain starting a few years before the onset of cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease. Most drug trials attempting to...

Increasing evidence has shown that getting too little sleep increases the risk of developing dementia.  In one recent study those routinely getting 6 or less hours of sleep had a significantly greater chance of developing...