For many people, the earliest signs of cognitive decline are subtle. It may start with forgetting appointments, struggling to find a familiar word, misplacing everyday items, or feeling mentally slower […]
Methylene blue is a redox-active molecule that can readily cross the blood-brain barrier and enter mitochondria—the “power plants” of our cells. Research suggests that methylene blue acts as an alternative […]
A new study published in JAMA Network Open is challenging some long-held assumptions about diet and brain health. Researchers from Sweden found that among older adults carrying the APOE4 gene—a […]
For the last five years, every Alzheimer’s conference has featured at least one talk on artificial intelligence and risk prediction. The promise has always been the same: combine blood tests, […]
The hormones-and-cognition conversation is one of the oldest and most relitigated debates in women’s health. A big study in 2003 (the Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study) scared a generation of […]
Part 5 — Inflammation In The Brain Is The Common Thread Step back and look at the papers so far. Those four topics share one floor underneath all of them: […]
We need to settle a question that has been unresolved since Long Covid was first described. Does the brain fog of Long COVID resolve on its own? The best 36-month […]
Exercise is the intervention every doctor recommends and most people under-do. The 2026 data cleared up two things that have been fuzzy for years: which type of movement works best, […]
Four papers this year pushed the metabolism story from “important” to “probably the most actionable lever we have in preventing cognitive decline.” They came from different research traditions — pharmacology, […]
The 2023 headlines about two new Alzheimer’s drugs, lecanemab and donanemab, made it sound like the science was settled. Amyloid, a sticky protein that builds up in the brains of […]