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The study of brain aging gets a fresh treatment in a pair of studies that use vastly different approaches to understanding how the march of time makes it mark on living systems...
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The study of brain aging gets a fresh treatment in a pair of studies that use vastly different approaches to understanding how the march of time makes it mark on living systems...
Understanding just how anti-amyloid antibodies remove amyloid-β (Aβ) from the brain is a burning issue...
At this year’s Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, a special ancillary symposium explored the normal and pathological roles of APP...
Researchers report that they have developed a small molecule that acts specifically on the M4-type muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs)...
The plasticity of synapses is the basis for learning, memory, and associated cognitive skills...
Despite a 20-year courtship, researchers have gotten to know rather little about amyloid-β precursor protein (APP)...
In Greek mythology, Klotho is a goddess of fate. She spins the thread of life...
The Alzheimer Study Group is a non-partisan panel led jointly by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey...
Mutations in a tau kinase gene have been tied to the neurodegenerative disease spinocerebellar ataxia type 11...
At the l7th Annual Marian S. Ware Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Retreat, hosts Virginia Lee and John Trojanowski pulled together a formidable roster of speakers...
Acetylcholinesterase inhibitor drugs are unable to slow progression from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia...
Using a phage display technique to identify conformation-specific antibodies in vitro, researchers have produced a novel amyloid-binding antibody...
On the one hand, research studies have amassed a laundry list of factors that influence experimental amyloid deposition in mouse models of amyloidosis...
Sangram Sisodia’s group presented new data that exemplify how the expanding field of environmental enrichment and adult neurogenesis has inspired AD research...
Microglia play an important, if controversial, role in Alzheimer disease (AD)...