Alzheimer’s Disease
12 Days of Research at Mass General: Modeling Alzheimer’s Disease in 3D
In the 12 days leading up to our holiday hiatus, we are looking back on the past year and sharing some highlights in Massachusetts General Hospital research news from each month of 2017. October 2017: How a 3D Model of Alzheimer’s Disease is Providing New Hope in the Search for Treatments Reigning in Alzheimer’s disease…
Read More12 Days of Research at Mass General: Do Alzheimer’s Patients Suffer Silent Seizures?
In the 12 days leading up to our holiday hiatus, we are looking back on the past year and sharing some highlights in Massachusetts General Hospital research news from each month of 2017.
Read MoreGatchel Untangles the Causes of Mood and Anxiety Symptoms and Loss of Brain Function in Aging Populations
Mass General geriatric psychiatrist Jennifer Gatchel MD, PhD, is working to unravel the connections between mental illness and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
Read MoreStudy Predicts Alzheimer’s Cases to Double in US by 2060. How Mass General Researchers are Fighting Back.
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released some unsettling new estimates about the number of individuals affected with Alzheimer’s disease this week—and how that number is expected to skyrocket in the near future.
Read MoreNew Screening Technique Makes Waves in Quest for Earlier Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease
How could the study of patients under anesthesia lead to a new way to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease? It could all come down to brainwaves.
Read MoreHow a 3D Model of Alzheimer’s Disease is Providing New Hope in the Search for Treatments
Reigning in Alzheimer’s disease continues to be a challenge — more than 10 million families are affected by this degenerative neurological disease, and the number of patients dying from the disease has increased 68 percent since 2010. In the past decade, attempts at developing drugs to slow or halt the progression of Alzheimer’s disease have…
Read MoreResearchers and Clinicians Revolutionize Prevention Efforts for Brain Disease
The Institute for Brain Health at Mass General is revolutionizing the way we treat brain disease by developing new strategies for prevention, risk reduction and early treatment.
Read MoreBoth Patients and Researchers Have a Role to Play in Preserving Brain Function
Brain health is key to living a long and happy life. Here are some tips for improving brain health.
Read MoreFor Alzheimer’s Patients, Every Day is the Longest Day
June 21st is not only the longest day of the calendar year, but it is also a special day focused on Alzheimer’s disease (AD), an irreversible progressive form of dementia that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills.
Read MoreResearchers Detect “Silent” Seizures in Alzheimer’s Patients
New research from Massachusetts General Hospital suggests a potential new connection between the devastating memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and “silent” seizures in the memory center of the brain.
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