Chicago: Tau and α-Synuclein Oligomers Follow Aβ Footsteps
In Alzheimer disease research, focus has recently shifted away from large plaques and toward small oligomers of amyloid as a potential cause of disease...
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In Alzheimer disease research, focus has recently shifted away from large plaques and toward small oligomers of amyloid as a potential cause of disease...
The long axons of neurons act as intracellular highways, with motor proteins shuttling their cargo up and down microtubule tracks...
DIAN was founded with the hope that its participating families could be offered a prevention trial and/or treatment trial before too long...
At the 7th Leonard Berg Symposium, brain imaging researchers of various stripes took stock of what brain imaging tells the field about the preclinical period of Alzheimer disease...
One question that pervaded the 7th Leonard Berg Symposium is whether dominantly inherited Alzheimer disease really is the same disease as the common late-onset forms...
As throughout this conference, talks toggled between what’s known in LOAD and eFAD, comparing all the while how well knowledge on these forms of AD matches up...
At the 7th Leonard Berg Symposium scientists and patient advocates came together to exchange the latest news on detecting disease presymptomatically...
When do researchers get to hear from study participants how deeply their families have struggled for decades and what kinds of services would make studies worth their while?...
Earlier this month, researchers met to devote two intense days of talks and discussion to their goal of presymptomatic detection of Alzheimer disease...
Researchers at the University of Michigan reported today on a new gene they suspect of contributing to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)...
The simple story of gene transcription into messenger RNA (mRNA) and subsequent translation into a protein has recently become considerably more complicated...
Mutant superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) has been linked to one-fifth of inherited cases of ALS, where its misfolded form appears to damage motor neurons...
The nervous systems of people with neurodegenerative disease are often pocked with tiny inclusions, which are packed with a variety of proteins, many still unidentified...
The doctor’s toolkit for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is pathetically small—only one drug, riluzole, is approved for the disease, and its effects are hardly blockbuster...
Stem cell research made a strong showing at the André-Delambre Foundation Symposium on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)...