Researchers are pursuing new Alzheimer's treatments targeting molecular pathways beyond amyloid, showing modest slowing of cognitive decline in clinical trials.
Early-onset dementia doesn't just affect the person diagnosed—it reorganizes the careers, marriages, and parenting roles of everyone close to them.
Personality changes and memory loss in your 50s might be dementia, not stress.
Brain scans show Alzheimer's pathology developing in young adults living in polluted cities, with some children already showing disease markers.
Two diseases that destroy thinking and memory demand completely different approaches to care and prevention.
Lewy bodies damage movement and vision centers; Alzheimer's targets memory first—and the drugs used to treat one can be dangerous in the other.
Vivid visual hallucinations are among the earliest signs of Lewy body dementia, often appearing before memory loss becomes obvious.
FTD damages personality and judgment first; Alzheimer's damages memory first—and that difference changes everything about how to provide care.
Early-onset FTD strikes before 65, destroying personality and judgment while memory stays sharp—a deceptive illness families often mistake for psychiatric disease.
FTD strikes earlier, changes personality first, and demands faster decisions—a different disease entirely from Alzheimer's memory loss.