Researchers have identified a previously overlooked mechanism of brain cell death that appears to play a major role in ...

A team of UVM scientists led by Mark Nelson, Ph.D., from the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, has uncovered a novel mechanism that reshapes our understanding of how blood flow ...

Vascular dementia is the second leading cause of dementia. This disease co-occurs with Alzheimer's disease in the leading cause of dementia, termed "mixed dementia." There is no drug therapy that ...

Dementia prevention is becoming a testable public health strategy. The 2024 Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention, and care estimated that about 45% of dementia cases might be ...

Markers of a new mechanism for cell death, called karyoptosis, have been found in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Researchers have for the first time identified degeneration-associated 'molecular markers' -- observable changes in cells and their gene-regulating networks -- that are shared by several forms of ...

A University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) study proves that the WIN55.212-2 drug protects the brain and reverses the initial cognitive damage caused by dementia, and explains how it works The ...

Researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine have discovered a new way that neurons act in neurodegeneration by using human neural organoids – also known as ...

Adults living with Alzheimer’s-related dementia now have a second FDA-approved drug for agitation, and for the first time, ...