The finding may open a whole new world in the study of Alzheimer's disease, said biophysicist Aneta Stefanovska.

Charles Piller, author of the new book Doctored, says the scientific community needs “to take a good hard look in the mirror.

A delay in getting to the rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep may be linked to Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, ...

An international research team has identified key genetic factors that confer protective effects against Alzheimer's disease (AD) through a comprehensive genetic analysis of East Asian populations, ...

Taking too long to enter the phase of sleep in which we dream may be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease. This is the conclusion of an international team of researchers who studied the sleep ...

Yet despite decades of research, no treatment has been created that arrests Alzheimer’s cognitive deterioration, let alone reverses it. That dismal lack of progress is partly because of the infinite ...

However, some research suggests that poor sleep could raise your risk of Alzheimer’s. A study published in November found ...

Image credit: alvaro gonzalez/Getty Images. Researchers project the number of people with Alzheimer’s disease will increase to 153 million by 2050. Scientists are focused on identifying health ...