Lifestyle

Test tube and mice research has found that herpes and other viruses speed up the development of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s.

Researchers are prescribing exercise as if it were a drug in a study that aims to see if it can prevent Alzheimer's disease.

A new study found that the common NSAID naproxen was ineffective at preventing Alzheimer’s disease.

As Alzheimer’s disease and dementia affect a growing number of Americans, efforts to keep brain decline at bay have become big business.

But in a piece published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, neurologists at the University of California, San Francisco’s Memory and Aging Center, caution consumers that brain health supplements have no proven benefit, calling them “pseudomedicine.”

We don’t usually start thinking about the possibility of dementia until our senior years. But scientists are now saying that maintaining an active life—including both mental and physical activities—in middle age might be a powerful protector against diseases like Alzheimer’s and other dementias.