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Just days after news that an ultra-rare form of a cholesterol-related gene called APOE protected a Colombian woman from developing early-onset Alzheimer’s disease (as one of her other genes supposedly fated her to), a second study is providing even stronger...

A genetic mutation said she was destined to get Alzheimer’s in her 40s, just like her family members in the Colombian kindred with a rare form of the disease. But remarkably, she experienced no cognitive decline until her 70s....

ASU launches Center for Innovation in Healthy and Resilient Aging with an eye toward caring for an aging population https://asunow.asu.edu/20190424-solutions-asu-center-innovation-healthy-resilient-aging-launch

Championing the need for research, programs and support for caregivers has been a passion of David Coon’s for more than three decades. Recently, those efforts were honored in an especially meaningful way by the Arizona Caregiver Coalition. Click here to read...

Charlene and J. Orin Edson’s gift to be split between Biodesign Institute and newly renamed Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation Dementia is a health issue that touches everyone, from the person afflicted to their friends and family...

Hear about the latest breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s research from Dr. Eric Reiman of the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute. We also hear from Tempe Mayor Mark Mitchell, who discusses being a caregiver for his mother, who suffers from the disease.

Three postdoctoral positions are open to study the molecular and behavioral alterations associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Visit the following link to learn more + apply now: https://jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/492435/postdoctoral-research-scholar/

“There is an untapped opportunity to leverage existing data from longitudinal cohorts, from the postmortem human brain, and from clinical trials to help the field advance our shared goals more effectively than we otherwise could,” Eric Reiman, Banner Alzheimer’s...