O’Connell and Adams specialize in the complex ways that Alzheimer’s effects how people speak. Using AI, their mathematical model analyzes 15 million data points every minute, focusing on certain features of speech such as pitch, pauses and elongation of words.…
An international team of European researchers led by scientists at King’s College London in the UK has discovered a blood-based test that can accurately predict 3.5 years in advance whether individuals diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment will go on to…
New breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s diagnostics may someday soon let us substantially alter the course of the disease. Read more in gatesnotes The reason I feel optimistic about the future of Alzheimer’s research By Bill Gates was last modified: September 21st,…
Beginning in the 1980s, studies confirmed, perhaps unsurprisingly, that animals are capable of what’s called procedural memory—a type of long-term memory that aids in performing motor skills such as running or climbing. Read more in fast company What we’re learning…
No one knows for certain what causes Alzheimer’s disease. But one fact about the condition has gained nearly irrefutable status. Depending on what versions of a gene called APOE you inherit, your risk of the brain disorder can be half…
The startup, Elevian, which is based in San Francisco, says it intends to explore whether daily injections of a protein called GDF11 can promote “the body’s ability to restore itself” The company builds on research findings several years ago that if…
People with high blood sugar stand to experience worse long-term cognitive decline than their healthy peers, even if they’re not technically type 2 diabetic, new research suggests. Other studies have previously shown this kind of link between diabetes and the cognitive…
Dementia and Alzheimer’s are now the leading cause of death in the UK. It has been estimated that worldwide costs for Alzheimer’s may soon reach one trillion dollars. A cure would immediately impact the budget of every state in the…
Thanks to the tau structures obtained from the deceased patient, researchers now have the ability to investigate how abnormal filaments function at an atomic level in the human brain – and studying these tangles won’t only benefit Alzheimer’s research Read…
Researchers examined the brains of eight participants who had displayed excellent memory capacity and cognitive ability at the time of their death, and found that three of them contained the telltale signs of Alzheimer’s disease. So how could they have…
