Questions and answers about Alzheimer's disease

24 June, 2024

Early detection of Alzheimer's: new insights

In Belgium, the impact of dementia is becoming increasingly clear, with statistics showing that one in five people and one in three women develop the disease. Alzheimer's, which accounts for 70% of these cases, remains a challenge in healthcare, mainly due to limited treatment options that are…

10 June, 2024

New Insight into the Early Stages of Alzheimer's Disease

Scientists at the VIB-KU Leuven Centre for Brain & Disease Research have unravelled a pioneering mechanism that plays a crucial role in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.

03 June, 2024

Time to change attitudes towards Alzheimer's

In February 2019, Dr Daniel M. Gibbs, MD, PhD, published a landmark article in the medical journal JAMA Neurology calling on his colleagues to change attitudes towards Alzheimer's and diagnose the disease more aggressively at an early stage.

22 May, 2024

The future of early Alzheimer's detection and its impact

Long before the first symptoms of Alzheimer's appear, harmful proteins begin to accumulate in the brain. This process, which can extend over decades, is now increasingly detectable better and earlier thanks to modern scientific advances.

21 May, 2024

How controlling risk factors can protect your brain from dementia

Dementia is an umbrella term for a range of conditions that affect the brain, resulting in progressive loss of cognitive functions and daily skills. There are several risk factors for dementia that can be influenced by lifestyle choices and health management.

13 May, 2024

A healthy lifestyle to lower your risk of dementia

The APOE genotype is the most important genetic risk factor for age-related dementia. The variant APOE4 in particular is strongly associated with an increased risk of age-related dementia, such as Alzheimer's disease. Despite this genetic predisposition, there are several lifestyle interventions…