Researchers at Aarhus University have developed ear-EEG, a technology that enables long-term monitoring of brain activity and sleep in people's homes. Already being used in clinical studies, the technology could help detect diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s years earlier than today. The article explores how emerging health technologies are shifting healthcare from hospitals to homes, and why the next challenge is building healthcare systems that can use them.

Researchers have shown how an enzyme triggers cell stress and promotes the advance of Alzheimer’s disease in a self-perpetuating process. The team has developed an active ingredient that breaks this vicious circle. In mice treated with the substance, dementia advances much more slowly.

University of Florida researchers have developed an AI tool called AIDD that distinguishes between Alzheimer’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies with near-perfect accuracy.