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A new cohort study by investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital found a bidirectional link between daytime napping and cognitive aging for older adults, finding that excessive daytime napping predicted an increased future risk of Alzheimer's

An inexpensive anti-seizure medication markedly improves learning and memory and other cognitive functions in Alzheimer's patients who have epileptic activity in their brains, according to a new study.

In a large-scale analysis, researchers use data from three different brain banks to suggest that human herpesviruses are more abundant in the brains of Alzheimer's patients and may play a role in regulatory genetic networks that are believed to lead t

WASHINGTON (AP) — A provocative new study says viruses that sneak into the brain just might play a role in Alzheimer's.

Neuroscientists are getting excited about non-invasive procedures to tune the brain's natural oscillations.

A simple technique to gauge brain levels of a toxic protein could improve diagnosis and drug trials

Anxiety could be one of the early symptoms of Alzheimers disease, and it may manifest more than a decade before the illness strikes, accordi

Scientists at the University of North Carolina's Medical School conducted a series of experiments to look at different factors driving the disease in order to try and pinpoint a way to stop it in its tracks.