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Medical News Today: Scientists have found a previously unknown mechanism in which the protein tau, which is implicated in Alzheimer's disease, damages brain cells by interfering with their internal communications. READ MORE
MedPage Today: High schoolers with poor cognition had an increased chance of developing dementia in later life, according to research that linked participants' socio-behavioral data from 1960 to their Medicare usage 53 years later. READ MORE
Science Daily: Analysis of data captured during a long-term study of aging adults shows that those who report being very sleepy during the day were nearly three times more likely than those who didn't to have brain deposits of beta amyloid, a protein that's a hallmark for Alzheimer's disease, years later. READ MORE
People: Tony Hawk is getting candid about the realities of having a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease.The 50-year-old professional skateboarder shared a photo of himself holding his mother Nancy Hawk’s hand on Instagram, opening up about his visit with her. “I visited my mom today,” Hawk wrote. “She has 93 years of life behind her, but the last ten have been increasingly corrupted by Alzheimer’s and dementia.” READ MORE
PsychCentral: Men who smoke have an elevated risk of dementia, according to a new analysis of nationwide health claims from South Korea. Compared with continual smokers, long-term quitters had a 14 percent lower risk of dementia, while men who had never smoked had a 19 percent lower risk, according to the analysis, which was published in the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. READ MORE
