It’s complicated, but for some patients, there’s reason to be optimistic about aducanumab, the treatment that made waves upon receiving FDA approval this summer.

Get some more sleep — deep, restorative slumber may defend against virulent dementia.

A simple screen may soon be able to detect two common forms of dementia — Alzheimer’s and frontotemporal dementia — and tell them apart.

Though the motor proteins they study may be tiny, professor Jing Xu and her students could make a huge contribution to the study of the disease.

One woman’s resistance to genetic, early-onset Alzheimer’s may hold the key to future therapies.

A unique neurological signature not previously identified in patients may provide a path to new, more successful trials.

A new finding suggests a gene linked to Alzheimer's may also be associated with lower IQ scores in childhood.

Artificial intelligence, developed around the same ‘swipe right’ approach we associate with dating apps, could vastly scale up Alzheimer’s research.

A machine-learning algorithm diagnosed early-stage Alzheimer’s disease using a common PET scan.

Prions, long studied by UCSF professor and Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner, build up in the brain to cause Alzheimer's and other dementias. Now they're linked to post-traumatic stress disorder in combat veterans and in the brain damage of athletes who have suffered repeated concussions.