Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a new low-cost blood test that could make it easier to detect Alzheimer's disease at an earlier stage—helping patients receive treatment and ...

Scientists have long known of a link between loss of smell and dementia — mainly because the plaque buildup that signals dementia initially occurs in parts of the brain related to memory and smell.

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This news may put some minds at ease. “Our test identifies very early stages of tau tangle formation — up to a decade before any tau clumps can show up on a brain scan,” said senior study author ...

A fully automated plasma biomarker panel detected amyloid-beta (Aβ) positivity and monitored early amyloid accumulation in middle-aged cognitively unimpaired (CU) adults at risk for Alzheimer's ...

More than 7 million Americans have Alzheimer’s Disease, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. And one in nine people over the age of 65 has this type of dementia. The disease is believed to be ...

October 10, 2012 — A new computerized home-based tool can help patients test their cognitive abilities, potentially leading to very early detection of dementia, preliminary research shows. Ellen ...

Individuals with a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer's disease show altered blood levels indicating damaged neuronal contacts as early as 11 years before the expected onset of dementia symptoms.