Alzheimer’s Disease/Dementia News

Although it was well tolerated, the anti-amyloid antibody crenezumab did not reduce clinical decline in patients with Alzheimer's disease, researchers reported in JAMA Neurology.

Patients who experience delirium after a kidney transplantation are at an increased risk for dementia and cognitive decline, according to data published in the American Journal of Transplantation.

Maintaining a balanced energy intake through diet was associated with significantly better cognitive function compared with uneven intake patterns, researchers reported in Life Metabolism.

Alzheon Inc. reported statistically significant and clinically relevant results in patients with Alzheimer’s disease following 12 months of treatment with the oral investigational therapeutic ALZ-801 in its phase 2 trial.

Six metabolites — four related to sugar — were consistently associated with lower global cognitive function, researchers reported in Alzheimer’s & Dementia.

Cedars-Sinai’s department of computational biomedicine has been awarded an $8 million NIH grant to use artificial intelligence methods to identify genetic predictors of Alzheimer's disease.

The daily use of multivitamin-mineral supplements improved global cognition, episodic memory and executive function in older adults, researchers reported in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of The Alzheimer’s Association.

Researchers at the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging have received a $20.5 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to study astrocytes and their role in Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.

An Alzheimer's disease-centered storyline in the primetime television drama series “This Is Us” reduced stigma around dementia and prompted family discussions, researchers reported in the Journal of Health Communications.

Older adults with dementia are at greater risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection and death, highlighting the need for close monitoring of these patients, researchers reported in the Journal for Alzheimer’s Disease.