When doctors suspect Alzheimer's, they can order a blood test to learn whether a patient's brain contains the sticky amyloid plaques that are a hallmark of the disease. But the results of that test ...

A blood test to screen for Alzheimer's disease in India? The rollout could make earlier and less invasive detection more ...

With rising awareness around brain health, more people are becoming concerned about memory lapses and their possible link to Alzheimer’s disease. But experts caution against jumping to conclusions or ...

Researchers believe the test could be a new way to foresee how quickly the disease will progress, but evidence so far is preliminary. A growing body of research links insulin resistance, a hallmark of ...

A new study shows that changes linked to Alzheimer’s disease can speed up with age in people’s late 50s, long before memory ...

The prognosis for Alzheimer’s disease is much better when patients are diagnosed as early as possible. And there’s great news on that front. WTOP talked to two local doctors about an advancement in ...

At the age of 22, Andre Yarham was diagnosed with young-onset dementia (YOD) — the youngest person in the UK to receive that diagnosis. He died about a year later, in December 2025, at the age of 24.

Memory loss and aging go hand-in-hand for most of us, but scientists are getting closer to understanding why. A new study, conducted by researchers at the Arc Institute in Palo Alto, California, and ...