According to a recent Swedish study there may be a connection between eating fast food and an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
The study found that mice fed a diet rich in fat, sugar and cholesterol for nine months developed a preliminary stage of the morbid irregularities that form in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. The [...]

The biological mechanism involved in the formation of Alzheimer’s disease is complex, as several factors contribute to the pathology of the disease. Because of that There is a number of different therapies which address distinct aspects of the Alzheimer’s disease. [...]

The exact cause of the Alzheimer’s disease is still unknown. But some pathological features of the disease help physicians to get substantial information about it. Precence of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, and a loss of neurons and synapses in [...]

Today the only sure way to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease is to find out whether there are plagues and tangles in the brain tissue. There is no proof positive diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease before a person dies. A physician can only make a diagnosis of [...]

Alzheimer’s disease’s rate of progression and characters of symptoms vary from one individual to another. Many studies have suggested that gender affects the length and the rate of survival. At first the syndrome begins with the insidious onset of memory [...]