Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s,” Charles Piller looks how the amyloid hypothesis took over ...

The study used gold-standard autopsy confirmation to show that a blood test for Alzheimer's disease accurately detected ...

A complementary drug to combat Alzheimer's disease could target a specific part of the nerve cell protein tau.

The first participants in an international clinical trial aimed at preventing Alzheimer’s disease in young adults at high ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — Most treatments being pursued today to protect against Alzheimer's disease focus on amyloid plaques and tau tangles that accumulate in the brain, but new research points to a ...

Years before tau tangles show up in brain scans of patients with Alzheimer's disease, a biomarker test can detect small amounts of the clumping-prone tau protein and its misfolded pathological forms ...

Drugs targeting amyloid plaques have failed to show efficacy in clinical trials. A new approach is needed to tackle AD ...