Alzheimers Disease News

A report in the February issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals says that high blood pressure appears to predict the progression to dementia in older adults... Read more

Dementia directly afflicts 820,000 persons in the UK. The public health service will struggle to cope if the prevalence of dementia continues to rise.

A major new Alzheimer’s Researc... Read more

Indians seem to be cocking a snook at dementia. Healthcare might leave a lot to be desired, and they might be poor by many standards. But they seem to be in a position to lead a relatively h... Read more

Scientists from Translational Genomics Research Institute (Tgen) have identified specific proteins that might lead to memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease.

Three prote... Read more

Scientists have learned that angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) may be linked to a striking decrease in the occurrence and progression of dementia. ARBs are a particular class of anti-hype... Read more

A new research has suggested that older women with hypertension are at increased risk for developing brain lesions that cause dementia later in life.

The findings are based on da... Read more

A report in the January 11 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals says that the use of atypical antipsychotics to treat elderly patients with dement... Read more

A commonly prescribed drug to manage high blood pressure and heart disease also appears to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, according to a large US study published... Read more

Forgetting minor things like where you kept your car keys may be a symptom of subjective cognitive impairment (SCI), which is the earliest sign of cognitive decline.

The latter i... Read more

An editorial in the December 16, 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association by Thomas J. Montine, MD, PhD, University of Washington (UW) professor of neuropathology... Read more