Alzheimer’s Disease

The Virginia Alzheimer's Disease Center is advancing dementia research by knitting the community together through research collaborations.

The new discovery advances the battle against the disease, which strikes 1 in 9 people over age 65.

A UVA discovery could eventually protect patients from brain diseases that rob them of memory and motion.

As Baby Boomers continue to age, new work is calling attention to an often-forgotten subset of people with neurocognitive disorders: the rapidly growing population in U.S. prisons.

A recent UVA study found that seizures and memory formation follow the same brain circuits.

The finding could benefit battles against dementia, stroke and other conditions.

UVA Engineering professor Yanjun Qi builds artificial intelligence tools that have the power to turn biomedical data into better medicine.

The new findings may explain why genes associated with cholesterol have been linked to increased risk for Alzheimer’s.