Does Alzheimer News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

People who have trouble making turns while walking may be experiencing changes in their navigational skills related to dementia, finds a new study.

David Moss, CFO of INmune Bio shares how the economic burden of Alzheimer’s treatments overshadow any progress in research development.

Does Alzheimer’s drug work? Answers may miss ’30 target Matthew Perrone View Comments Washington — When a controversial Alzheimer’s drug won U.S. approval, surprise over the decision quickly turned to shock at how long it might take to find out if it really works — nine years. Drugmaker Biogen has until 2030 to complete a study confirming whether its new drug Aduhelm truly slows the brain-destroying disease. That’s under the terms of the Food and Drug Administration’s conditional approval of the drug, a decision that has been praised by patients as overdue and condemned by the a...

When I began working as a neurosurgeon more than 25 years ago, the idea of improving your brain seemed a rather misguided one. After all, I was trained to remove tumours, clip aneurysms and relieve pressure from collections of blood and fluid inside people’s heads. Despite all the advances in technology, even today, it is still not possible for a neurosurgeon to lift the lid on a human brain and adjust the 100 billion or so neurons to make the organ more intelligent and less vulnerable to decline. Some of these behavioural changes are not merely effective, they are pretty much surgical in t...