A new study presents robust evidence on the role of lysophosphatidylcholines (LPCs) in the onset of Alzheimer's disease.

A new study presents robust evidence on the role of lysophosphatidylcholines (LPCs) in the onset of Alzheimer's disease.

One of the diseases that older people fear the most is Alzheimer’s, first described in 1906 by the German physician Alois Alzheimer. An autopsy on his first dementia patient showed amyloid plaques and ...

The two dominant proteins that determine how much blood flows through the body's arteries have been implicated in Alzheimer's disease. They offer new, surprising targets against Alzheimer's disease ...

In 1907, Aloysius "Alois" Alzheimer presented a rare case of dementia in a 51-year-old woman. This "presenile dementia" (younger than 60) was thought distinct enough from "senile dementia" (older than ...

In the fall of 1901, a confused, forgetful, disoriented and paranoid 51-year-old woman named Auguste D. was admitted to Germany’s Frankfurt Hospital. She was the first documented case of a ...

Why is there no cure for Alzheimer’s—or why aren’t there medications that can at least substantially slow or meaningfully ameliorate the disease? It afflicts more than 6 million Americans, with that ...

Everyone with even a passing interest in Alzheimer disease has seen a sepia-toned photograph of its namesake like the one on last week’s cover of Science magazine. A fatherly, pensive man with a ...