Protein clumps in the brain have long been associated with Alzheimer’s, but other potential causes of the condition are now ...

This is the 59th instalment in a series on dementia, including the research into its causes and treatment, advice for carers and stories of hope. The so-called amyloid hypothesis has dominated ...

She had been admitted under the care of neurologist Alois Alzheimer for evaluation of her undiagnosed cognitive decline. In the same year as Ehrlich's breakthrough publication, Alzheimer published ...

But until recently, those efforts have been focused primarily on the brain (where the obvious symptoms of the disease occur), leaving out a potentially crucial factor that Dr. Alois Alzheimer ...

She had been admitted under the care of neurologist Alois Alzheimer for evaluation of her undiagnosed cognitive decline. In the same year as Ehrlich’s breakthrough publication, Alzheimer published ...

More than 120 years ago, in November 1901, German Dr. Alois Alzheimer took on a patient—a 51-year-old woman with “presenile dementia” who’d become paranoid, lost her sense of self ...