A survey of Alzheimer’s disease prevalence in Norway confirms earlier estimates and might show how education level relates to ...

Trump gets a lot of things wrong when he talks about cognitive tests. He recently bragged to journalists that he “aced” one, and said the doctors at Walter Reed told him no president had taken a ...

Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to ...

As the world's population ages, the number of people living with dementias such as Alzheimer's disease increases.

"If we can attack the disease before those symptoms start, we're doing a major service to the patient and to society." ...

As many as half of the over 280,000 Pennsylvanians living with Alzheimer’s are not diagnosed. Yet an early and accurate diagnosis can ...

The authors of a new Australian study say they have identified a set of 32 genetic variants that increase the likelihood of ...

As the world's population ages, the number of people living with dementias such as Alzheimer's disease increases. Given the ...

The U.S. government has ended several health grants to one of the nation's largest pediatricians' groups -- a move the ...

But only a tiny percentage of our DNA – around 2% – contains our 20,000-odd genes. The remaining 98% – long known as the non-coding genome, or so-called ‘junk’ DNA – includes many of the switches that ...

Alzheimer’s association Nearly 120 years ago, the first case of Alzheimer’s disease was diagnosed by Dr. Alois Alzheimer. Today, as nearly 21,000 Montanans among more than 7.4 million people in the U.

When it comes to sleep, traditional advice has focused on the number of hours a person sleeps. But for older adults, the quality of sleep may affect cognitive performance the following day regardless ...