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What if all it took was a little sugar—not to make some other medicine go down, but as a therapy in itself for Huntington's disease? This is the promise of an article published...
In the genetics of late-onset Alzheimer disease, ApoE is the big fish...
The Wellcome Trust announced this week that it will fund what it describes as the largest ever Alzheimer’s gene study...
Read about this update of Martin Schwab's efforts to rekindle spinal cord regeneration with antibodies against the growth inhibitor nogo.
Among the strategies currently being pursued for treatment of Alzheimer disease (AD), inhibiting...
Perhaps some good can come from the Alzheimer’s Disease Anti-inflammatory Prevention Trial (ADAPT)...
A recent population-based study supports the idea that in the oldest old, the relationship between plaques and tangles, and dementia, may be more legend than substance...
Back-to-back papers in today’s Science shed new light on the role that insulin and heat shock proteins may play in the aging process...
Neuronal progenitors are faced with many forks on the road to becoming one of more than 1,000 different neurons found in the human central nervous system...
Two new papers reveal how environmental influences can directly affect the activity of the APP-processing enzymes β-secretase (BACE1) and γ-secretase...
To fight against diseases of aging, scientists must understand the aging process itself...
Aβ peptides inhabit the human brain in various sizes and shapes, and an enduring question among Alzheimer’s disease researchers has been, Which of them is neurotoxic?...
Designed to speed transport and communication, bridges may also be useful for slowing disease. Researchers suggest as much in their review of one promising strategy for slowing the progression of ALS...
As part of the tangled web of pathology that leads to Alzheimer’s disease, inflammation is associated with local immune responses. For example, recent data indicate that both AD patients and elderly healthy people have...
Conventional wisdom says too much stress is a dangerous thing, weakening the heart, immune system, and perhaps the brain...
