Jumpstarting Axon Regeneration?—Not Such a Stretch
Transplanted nerve cells with artificially stretched axons may act as “jumper cables” to guide and accelerate axon regeneration across nerve lesions...
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Transplanted nerve cells with artificially stretched axons may act as “jumper cables” to guide and accelerate axon regeneration across nerve lesions...
Scientists hold out hope that failing neural circuits may be revived with home-grown nerve cells or with functional neurons raised externally from embryonic stem cells...
The protein tau has for years bedeviled dementia researchers...
A story that broke at Keystone last month strongly pervaded the 9th International AD/PD conference in Prague...
Researchers report on the heterogeneity of γ-secretase isoforms, while others report that tau misfolding can be propagated from cell to cell...
The Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative announced this week that its genomewide analysis is 95 percent complete...
The 9th International AD/PD conference, held in Prague 11-15 March, made a big splash in the otherwise sleepy backwater of Alzheimer disease history...
Amyloid-β clearly goes rogue in Alzheimer disease, but it comes in different forms and can attack cells from within and without...
A spinal cord procedure less invasive than those that deliver epidural anesthesia can restore locomotion in two rodent models of Parkinson disease...
Is it time to stop focusing on Aβ monotherapies for Alzheimer disease (AD) and start looking to tau therapies as well?...
Last week, neurodegenerative disease researchers from all over the world began a bustling six days of talks, posters, and ample exchange...
Amber Dance Interviews Ken Kosik
A new kind of cognitive clinic, which opened 6 March in Santa Barbara, California, aims to help people stay mentally sharp by addressing mind, body, and soul...
The link between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and dementia may be unclear, but a new study suggests the possibility that the treatment for one may also suit the other...
Agitation is one of the most difficult symptoms of dementia for patients and caregivers to deal with...