dementia

Recent advances in brain imaging have enabled scientists to show for the first time that a key protein which causes nerve cell death spreads...

The theory that education protects against Alzheimer’s disease has been given further weight by new research from the University of Cambridge, funded...

A ‘brain training’ game developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge could help improve the memory of patients in the very earliest stages...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have designed antibodies that target the protein deposits in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease...

A team of scientists who a few years ago identified a major pathway that leads to brain cell death in mice, have now found two drugs that block the...

The University of Cambridge has been announced as one of the centres that will form the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) alongside Cardiff...

Public attitudes in UK and USA reveal support both for life-sustaining interventions and for measures to enable peaceful death in progressive...

It's over a hundred years since the first case of Alzheimer’s disease was diagnosed. Since then we’ve learned a great deal about the protein ‘tangles’...

A specific gene expression pattern maps out which parts of the brain are most vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease, decades before symptoms appear, and...

The UK has seen a 20% fall in the incidence of dementia over the past two decades, according to new research from England, led by the University of...