Research Brief: Mutations in Tau Kinase Cause Neurodegenerative Disease
Mutations in a tau kinase gene have been tied to the neurodegenerative disease spinocerebellar ataxia type 11...
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Mutations in a tau kinase gene have been tied to the neurodegenerative disease spinocerebellar ataxia type 11...
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)...
Understanding just how anti-amyloid antibodies remove amyloid-β (Aβ) from the brain is a burning issue...
Faced with an onslaught of information, the brain has a way of separating the wheat from the chaff...
Last August, Alzheimer disease researchers met with colleagues from other scientific fields for the seventh annual workshop on Enabling Technologies for Alzheimer Disease Research...
In Alzheimer’s and related neurodegenerative diseases, misfolded proteins that normally are degraded instead accumulate and form aggregates...
Blocking amyloid fibrillization with small molecules is a widely studied strategy for tackling Alzheimer disease and other amyloidoses...
A multinational team of researchers has uncovered a chromosomal deletion that is associated with mental retardation and seizures...
A new study shows striking images of early amyloid deposits on blood vessels of young APP23 transgenic mice...
Scientists took a step closer to a stem cell treatment for neurodegenerative disease this week...
Aβ oligomers made in test tubes or found in conditioned cell-culture medium can put a damper on synaptic plasticity...
One of the big surprises at this year’s Human Amyloid Imaging meeting was the finding that a significant proportion of healthy controls are PIB-positive...
A new approach to detoxifying the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide borrows from an unlikely source—the field of cancer drugs...
Is it time to redefine ALS?...