Ex-Iowa legislator Henry Rayhons has been found not guilty of felony sexual abuse. A jury of seven women and five men acquitted Rayhons today on charges that he’d had sex with his wife Donna while she was in the late stages of Alzheimer’s disease and unable to consent.

As the numbers of Alzheimer’s patients grow across America, it looks like us ladies are the most affected group in not one, but two ways: we're more likely to be diagnosed and be the caregiver when others are diagnosed.

Meet Verna and Jerry Kinersly, a lovely couple who have been happily married for 60 years.

Here's some bum news for anyone harboring romantic notions about outer space: even if a manned trip to Mars is possible, it'll kind of melt your brain in the process. Researchers examining the effects of radiation on brain degeneration have uncovered what they believe is a link between cosmic rays and accelerated…

Hey, remember how yesterday popcorn was a magical antioxidant-packed wizard-snack that was saving everyone's life? Well now it's today. And today popcorn is all, "PSYCH!!! I'm eating yo brainz, ding-dongs!" This isn't new news, exactly—we've been hearing about the horrific respiratory issues among popcorn factory…

Uuuuuuugh, milkshake—you cruel vixen. Milkshakes are simultaneously the food I most desire and the food I can least justify eating. Essentially a method of injecting massive amounts of melted ice cream into one's bloodstream the shortest time possible (YESSS), milkshakes are obv terrible for your body. But it turns…

God, red wine is the cockiest motherfucker on earth, right? I feel like every two weeks red wine releases another statement about how great red wine is. Like red wine's just sitting around in a mahogany-paneled den drinking red wine and coming up with more things that red wine can cure. Heart disease? Have some red…

Long time University of Tennessee women's basketball coach and legendary badass Pat Summitt announced today that she'll be stepping down from her post at the helm of one of the most successful programs in college sports, citing early-onset dementia that began affecting her last summer. She leaves the court the…

If you are one of those lucky people who doesn't feel like a light-headed piece of crap when you fast, you might not be opposed to skipping meals a few times a week. The rest of you will probably not be as excited by this possibility. But what if fasting at regular intervals could help protect your brain against…

Previous research has shown that being overweight could increase your risk of Alzheimer's. But a new study shows that people with certain biomarkers for the disease are actually more likely to be thin.

Pat Robertson, who's clearly never seen The Notebook, said this week on his Christian Broadcasting Network program the 700 Club that it's acceptable to divorce your spouse if they're suffering from Alzheimer's. Robertson was responding to a caller who said a friend had started seeing another woman after his wife…

Alzheimer's doesn't run in Seth Rogen's family, but he has been touched deeply by the disease. His fiancée's mother suffers from Alzheimer's — and has had if for several years — though she is only 59. Rogen and his fiancée are part of a CNN special airing on Sunday, hosted by Larry King, called "Unthinkable: The…

Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic report that they may know how to identify people at risk for developing Alzheimer's: By asking them whether they recognize famous names like Britney Spears or Johnny Carson. [Time]

Here's one family that really makes the best of Alzheimer's!

Deborah Solomon of the New York Times Magazine sat down with retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor ostensibly to talk about O'Connor's civics site for kids, Our Courts. But that's apparently way boring.