On the Move—Axon Initial Segment Dodges Storms, Savors Trickles
Like thermostats that switch on heating or cooling to regulate temperature, neurons tune their excitability up or down to weather environmental changes...
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Like thermostats that switch on heating or cooling to regulate temperature, neurons tune their excitability up or down to weather environmental changes...
Two new papers highlight the importance in AD of autophagy, a means by which cells dispose of unwanted proteins...
The fight against Alzheimer disease rallies warriors of many sorts...
A study previously featured on Alzforum today appears in the scientific literature...
Four years ago, researchers met in Japan to revise ALS diagnostic criteria with changes that should get people into trials faster...
Researchers have found that motor neurons from people who had died of ALS are likely to have mitochondrial DNA deficiencies and deletions...
Five major pharmaceutical firms are pooling data on 4,000 patients across 11 failed trials into a joint database...
Researchers provide a link between the β amyloid peptide (Aβ) and abnormal fibrin clot formation in cerebral blood vessels...
Three national research agencies issued a joint press release announcing the signing of a cooperation agreement...
In recent years, mounting evidence has pointed to soluble oligomers of Aβ, rather than amyloid fibrils, as the most toxic species in AD...
Deep-brain stimulation looks to become popular for a number of neurological and psychological disorders, even as some of the scientific evidence remains scattered and spotty...
Better known as executioners, caspases have life-giving functions, too...
Researchers have described a protocol using magnetic beads...
Low circulating testosterone in older men is linked to an increased risk for Alzheimer disease...
Though it has been decades since amyloid-β was implicated in the pathology of AD, it is still not exactly clear how the peptide is toxic...