The stutter that causes an overabundance of DNA repeats in diseases such as Huntington’s is tricky to silence because the normal genes, too, have their own, smaller share of repeats...
Figuring out what high levels of brain amyloid mean for otherwise healthy older people was a prime focus of the Human Amyloid Imaging (HAI) conference...
HAI Seattle: Does Brain Amyloid Correlate With Sagging Metabolism? HAI Seattle: Aβ May Disrupt Brain Function in Normal Seniors HAI Seattle: Not Just Amyloid, Not Just PIB HAI Seattle: Biomarkers Closing in on AD Pathological Sequence? Human Amyloid Imagi
Alzheimer disease researchers are coming to grips with the possibility that some experimental therapies could be failing because they have been tested in people whose disease is too advanced...
Scientists may have answered the neurological chicken-and-egg question in the case of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): Which comes first, the protein aggregates or the disease?...
The nonprofit Prize4Life is awarding two scientific teams with $50,000 each at the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting in Seattle, Washington, this week...
Researchers have linked the most important risk factor for Alzheimer disease, advanced age, to AD’s two pathological hallmarks, Aβ plaques and tau tangles in the brain...
While scientists’ understanding of neurodegenerative diseases has grown in leaps and bounds over the last 20 years, those advances have not readily translated into cures...