Alzheimer
What Causes Alzheimer’s in the Brain
A clear tour of the brain changes behind Alzheimer's: sticky amyloid plaques, twisted tau tangles, inflammation, and the gradual loss of connections.
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Alzheimer
What Causes Alzheimer’s
There is no single cause of Alzheimer's. Learn how age, genes, brain proteins and heart health combine, which popular myths are false and what you can influence
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What Causes Alzheimer’s Disease
The science of Alzheimer's: amyloid, tau, inflammation, blood vessels and genes, and how scientists piece them together to explain why the disease starts.
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Alzheimer Stages of Death
What the dying process often looks like at the end of Alzheimer's, from the final weeks to the last hours, and how families can offer comfort at the bedside.
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Alzheimer Stages Before Death
The changes that usually come in the final stage of Alzheimer's, how families can recognize them, and the kinds of support that bring comfort in those months.
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Alzheimer Stages and Treatment
Which Alzheimer's treatments are used at which stage, from early anti-amyloid infusions to symptom medicines and comfort-focused care in the later years.
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Artificial Intelligence
How AI-Generated Information Can Distort Memory
New research suggests AI may not only spread misinformation but also shape what people later remember. Experts say the effect is real enough to warrant caution, though the evidence is still emerging.
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Blood Pressure
Simple brain-protection habits that can matter for years
AARP highlights practical steps linked to long-term brain health, while CDC and heart experts say hearing, sleep and vascular risk factors all matter for cognitive aging.
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Brain Health
Physical Activity Linked to Slower Parkinson’s Decline in New Study
A new observational study suggests people with Parkinson’s disease who stayed more physically active had slower declines in movement and thinking skills, though the research does not prove exercise changed the disease course.
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Brain Health
What scientists think may help the brain clear its waste
A recent explainer on brain waste clearance highlights sleep, exercise and breathing as possible ways to support the brain’s fluid-moving cleanup systems. The evidence is promising, but still evolving.
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Blood Sugar
Diabetes and Dementia: What Older Adults Should Know
A new AARP explainer highlights why people with diabetes may want to pay closer attention to brain health—and why blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol management matter after 45.
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Alzheimer's Disease
Nobel Win Spotlights How Light Helps Map Brain Circuits
A Nobel Prize for optogenetics is drawing attention to a tool that lets researchers switch nerve cells on and off with light, helping them study brain circuits linked to dementia and other neurologic disease.
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