Doctors are constantly seeking clues to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease and researchers at the Indiana University School of ...

The study, published in Nature Medicine, also concludes that those individuals homozygous for APOE4 also develop the disease earlier than those with other variants of the APOE gene. These findings ...

The following is a summary of "Interaction between APOE Ɛ4 status, chemotherapy and endocrine therapy on cognitive functioning among breast cancer survivors: the CANTO-Cog longitudinal study," ...

Herpesvirus infection may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease through transposable element activation and neuroinflammation.

Sex differences in tau may help explain why women face higher Alzheimer's dementia risk than men. At high levels of brain ...

There have been several studies that have linked bacteria in the mouth to dementia. Research has generally suggested that ...

The Apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene encodes for three isoforms in the human population (APOE2, APOE3 and APOE4). Whereas the role of APOE in lipid metabolism is well characterized, the specific ...

The CHMP changed its mind the following November after re-examining its initial opinion, but only for a subgroup of patients who have only one or no copy of ApoE4, a form of the gene for the ...