A fragile cleanup system sitting on the surface of brain cells may help explain one of Alzheimer’s disease’s oldest mysteries ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twisted and tangled proteins are found in the brains of many of those who die with Alzheimer's disease. Some scientists suspect ...

Study reveals that lithium affects multiple cellular processes in Alzheimer's disease and opens up new avenues of research.

A mouse that had already forgotten how to navigate a simple water maze swam to the hidden platform as though it had never ...

Tau tangles are a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders, but evidence suggests the real damage may come from ...

In the spirit of the popular “get organized” new year’s resolution, scientists at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a new way to declutter brain proteins for 2023. Working for the Jan and Dan ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Greg Licholai writes and teaches about innovation in healthcare. This week delivered a sobering reminder that Alzheimer’s disease ...

An experimental drug can reduce the toxic changes in tau proteins known to damage neurons in brains with Alzheimer’s disease, researchers from Yale School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University ...

In the quest to cure Alzheimer’s, the protein known as beta-amyloid has long taken center stage, driving development of a long list of drugs aimed at breaking up “amyloid plaques” in the brain. But ...