The common shrew looks unremarkable, a few grams of fur and teeth scurrying under leaf litter. Yet this tiny mammal performs one of the strangest tricks in biology, shrinking its own brain and skull ...

People carrying at least one APOE4 allele have a higher risk of Alzheimer's disease. People who carry two alleles have the highest risk, leading some researchers to suggest that APOE4 homozygotes have ...

"I just know that my brain's not right," said Carrie Richardson, 44. "And so, I hate it. I just want it to be normal." At 41, Carrie developed early-onset Alzheimer's disease. The condition is caused ...

A UCSF and Gladstone Institutes team discovered a pair of cancer drugs that successfully treated a model of severe Alzheimer’s disease. From left: Marina Sirota, PhD; Yaqiao Li, PhD; and Yadong Huang, ...

News about Alzheimer's rose to the forefront in 2025, as the FDA approved the first diagnostic blood test and drugmakers reported 3-year outcomes for both anti-amyloid drugs, lecanemab (Leqembi) and ...

I have written about the importance of Alzheimer’s and the brain during past years and there continues to be an ongoing need to address this issue. June is Alzheimer's and Brain Health Awareness Month ...

On its own, LATE dementia is less severe than Alzheimer’s, but in combination, it makes Alzheimer’s symptoms worse, scientists say. Doctors told Ray Hester he was in the beginning stages of ...