The IU School of Medicine received $7.6 million to lead a study that will create a network of sites to study early-onset Alzheimer's.

An Indiana woman named to an national Early-Stage Advisory Group for the Alzheimer's Association stresses the importance of research and reducing stigma.

In 2011, just more than 2,000 Alzheimer's deaths were recorded in Indiana. But in 2015 - the most recent year with state data - that figure had climbed by more than a quarter, to more than 2,500.

The students are helping these seniors create customized playlists that can help trigger memories.

Eli Lilly's Solanezumab was a medicine that aimed to reduce symptoms in patients with mild dementia due to Alzheimer's.

The news of layoffs follows last month's announcement concerning the failure of Solanezumab, which Lilly hoped would be the first drug to slow the progression of Alzheimer's Disease.

The annual awards recognizes five young people who have created and implemented a project to help others.

A cooperative study from Butler and funded by the Indiana State Department of Health will examine how effective a personalized playlist is for patients suffering from dementia.

The experiment is expected to be loaded aboard a SpaceX rocket that will blast off early next year. The automated experiment will then spend four weeks aboard the International Space Station.

Organizers say the training could impact as many as 1,000 nursing home residents in southwestern Indiana.