When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Dementias, like Alzheimer's disease, are characterized by brain cells losing function and dying ...

She highlights some significant overlap with Alzheimer's disease, and she says her team's novel microscopy method sheds light on how microplastics that have seeped into the body could be triggering or ...

Knowing the difference between Alzheimer's and dementia can be crucial for patients, their care teams, and their loved ones.

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When Liv Heeney was 28, she discovered she had a faulty gene that would probably cause her to develop a rare form of dementia at a young age. Early onset frontotemporal dementia (FTD) has already ...

The finding comes from data of more than 550,000 adults ages 56 to 72, as well as genetics information from 2.4 million study ...