Could Gene Modification Be a Skeleton Key for Curing Alzheimer’s?
While CRISPR technology is generating a new wave of optimism for curing neurological diseases, experts warn that it has to be one part of a larger approach.
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The Many Health Benefits of Meth
In low, pharmaceutical-grade doses, meth may actually repair and protect the brain in certain circumstances.
If You’re Diagnosed With Dementia, Should You Lose Your Second Amendment Rights?
When a family member gets diagnosed with dementia, gun-rights advocates have a difficult choice ahead of them.
Being Multilingual May Protect Against Alzheimer’s Disease
New research suggests it creates a cognitive reserve the brain can utilize when other regions start to decay.
A California Start-Up Wants to Cure Alzheimer’s With Youthful Blood
Alkahest is performing patient trials to see if injecting plasma into Alzheimer's patients can mitigate the effects of the disease.
How Close Are We to Finding a Treatment for Alzheimer’s?
Countries around the world set a goal to find a treatment for Alzheimer's disease by 2025. But that objective seems increasingly less attainable.
A Member of the Worst Club in the World
In honor of Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, Jay Newton-Small tells the story of how she and her family became acutely, personally aware of the disease.
Finding Alzheimer’s Before It Strikes
Getting disoriented in a virtual treasure hunt could be an early warning sign.
Compared to Men, Women Bear Six Times More of the Cost of Alzheimer’s Disease
We’ve been slow to mobilize against the growing Alzheimer’s epidemic. Perhaps that’s because women are shouldering most of the burden.
To Have and to Hold: Consent and Intimacy for People With Alzheimer’s
There’s a strong cultural distaste for thinking about the elderly engaged in sexual activity, but we must if we’re going to protect an aging population.