People with dementia who had a parent with the condition tend to develop symptoms years earlier, and even sooner if both parents had it.

Low levels of a protein called TOM-1 may be behind inflammation in Alzheimer's disease, but fixing the problem could be a new way to fight the condition.

There may be a way to prevent the worst damage in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, Huntington's, ALS, and others.

A new drug called BPN14770 could protect against memory loss, nerve damage, and other Alzheimer's symptoms by fighting amyloid beta.

When researchers removed immune cells called microglia from mice with Alzheimer's, the disease's telltale plaques never formed.

The Alzheimer's drug donepezil can reverse the damage that alchohol exposure causes in the brains of adolescent rats. Could the same work for humans?

Researchers have discovered two genes that influence risk for early- and late-onset Alzheimer's disease, which could lead to new ways to fight the disease.

New research links chronic mid-life stress, though not trauma, with memory decline in women. That link did not appear for men.