Alzheimer’s

Old Fools by Tristan Bernays (Boudica Shakespeare’s Globe 2017) will hit the stage at Southwark Playhouse from 14 March to 7 April, with the production choosing to raise funds…

Scientists from the University of Southampton have teamed up with researchers from the University of Oxford to look at whether existing drugs for arthritis have…

Researchers from the University of Exeter have explored the use of an interventional-type care approach in UK care homes, finding it improves the lives of…

Care provider, Hallmark Care Homes is joining forces with Alzheimer’s Research UK and The Care Workers Charity this year in an effort to defeat dementia…

Scientists in the US have found that electrically stimulating regions of the brain in three people with Alzheimer’s disease was safe and appeared to show…

Scientists from the US have found a link between certain biological fingerprints thought to indicate early stages of Alzheimer’s and sleep disturbances. Their findings are…

Scientists have found evidence that a component of the curry spice turmeric could hold benefits for the brains in healthy individuals over 50. The US…

Researchers in the US have found that feeding mice a high-salt diet led to memory problems that may be triggered by changes to the immune…

Californian researchers have shed more light on the action of an experimental Alzheimer’s drug based on a modified component of the curry spice turmeric. The…

Scientists in the US have developed a new method to tease apart differences in the hallmark Alzheimer’s protein, amyloid. By using these methods, the researchers…

Cambridge scientists have investigated the spread of the toxic tau protein in Alzheimer’s disease and a rare brain disease called progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). Published…

Researchers in China and the UK have tested an experimental diabetes treatment on mice with features of Alzheimer’s disease. The study, published today in the…