Alzheimer's disease

Just a few daily cups of coffee or tea linked to lower dementia risk

Mike Franco — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:03:00 GMT

After an analysis of health data from over 131,000 people tracked for up to 43 years, researchers found that drinking coffee and tea daily seems to guard against the development of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of cognitive decline.

Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

Tags: Coffee, Tea, Dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Harvard, MIT, Mass General Brigham, Caffeine

Common eye bug adds to growing links between infection and dementia

Bronwyn Thompson — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:03:00 GMT

Scientists have uncovered an intriguing link between infection and brain health, finding that a common bacterium in the eye appears to be linked to cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease. It's the newest evidence suggesting bacteria and infections play a significant and poorly understood role in destroying the brain as we age.

Category: Alzheimer's & Dementia, Brain Health, Body and Mind

Tags: Cedars-Sinai, Brain, Inflammation, Cognitive functioning, Dementia, Alzheimer's disease, xxViral or high CTR

Surprising way cancer cells clear problematic proteins in the brain

Bronwyn Thompson — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:41:57 GMT

For some time, we've known that it's rare to see people with both cancer and Alzheimer's disease. Now, scientists believe they may have found why, discovering a molecule in cancer cells that clears problem proteins from the brain.

Category: Alzheimer's & Dementia, Brain Health, Body and Mind

Tags: University of Toronto, Cognitive functioning, Cancer, Blood-brain barrier, Protein, Amyloid-beta protein, Tau protein, Alzheimer's disease

Super-agers aren’t just growing old well – they’re doing it differently

Bronwyn Thompson — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:03:00 GMT

Using the largest sample of super-agers to date, scientists have found convincing evidence that supports what many of us have suspected: Longevity isn’t just about healthy lifestyle choices, but also a good draw in the genetic lottery.

Category: Alzheimer's & Dementia, Brain Health, Body and Mind

Experimental molecule may be a potent weapon against Alzheimer’s

Malcolm Azania — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:06:41 GMT

You think you’re fine. Your family and friends think you’re fine. But, just maybe, you’re not. Maybe you already have Alzheimer’s disease, but you just don’t know it yet, because it can begin destroying your brain decades before anyone even suspects.

Category: Alzheimer's & Dementia, Brain Health, Body and Mind

Tags: Northwestern University, Alzheimer's disease, Dementia, Treatment, Brain

Ozempic falls short in closely-watched Alzheimer's disease trial

Bronwyn Thompson — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 02:33:13 GMT

Scientists have failed to show that weight-loss wonder drug semaglutide slows the progress of Alzheimer's disease (AD), as two-year clinical trials end in disappointment for patients, medical scientists and drugmaker Novo Nordisk.

Category: Alzheimer's & Dementia, Brain Health, Body and Mind

Tags: Novo Nordisk, Alzheimer's disease, Semaglutide, Ozempic, clinical trials, Inflammation, Brain, GLP-1 receptor agonists

We may not need to exercise to get the same neuron boost as a workout

Bronwyn Thompson — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 06:33:14 GMT

One of the brain’s biggest benefits from exercise – the birth of new neurons – may not even require any movement. Instead, the beneficial “packages” circulating in the blood after working out can be successfully transferred to others.

Category: Brain Health, Body and Mind

Tags: University of Illinois, Neuroscience, Cognitive functioning, Alzheimer's disease, Exercise, neurons, Brain, Stem Cells, PTSD, Depression, Neurodegenerative conditions

Natural molecule reverses memory loss seen in Alzheimer's disease

Bronwyn Thompson — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:03:00 GMT

Boosting levels of a certain molecule that declines with age was found to restore memory and brain function in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) models – not just by improving energy metabolism, as previously thought, but by fixing RNA splicing errors that disrupt hundreds of genes crucial to neuron health.

Category: Alzheimer's & Dementia, Brain Health, Body and Mind

Tags: University of Oslo, Alzheimer's disease, Neuroscience, Neurodegenerative conditions, Cognitive functioning, Age-Related, Memory, Brain

MIT's injectable brain chips could treat disease without surgery

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:57:00 GMT

A team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been refining and combining several advanced technologies over the past six years to create a revolutionary platform to treat a vast array of neurological diseases and mental illnesses. It could not only prove more effective than traditional methods, but also negate the need for complex procedures that carry their own set of risks.

Category: Brain Health, Body and Mind

Tags: Neurological, Brain, MIT, Alzheimer's disease, Nanotechnology

New target to prevent Alzheimer's patients forgetting loved ones

Bronwyn Thompson — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:31:25 GMT

New research has found that the loss of social memory – recognizing friends and family – in Alzheimer's disease (AD) could come down to specific structures around brain cells. And targeting this delicate scaffolding may potentially prevent this heartbreaking stage in cognitive decline.

Category: Alzheimer's & Dementia, Brain Health, Body and Mind

Tags: University of Virginia, Alzheimer's disease, Dementia, neurons, Neuroscience, Memory, Brain