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Cellular Pruning Shears Reshape Connections in Adults

RESEARCH NEWS 2013-09-20 Research News The cortex is a remarkably adaptable structure. Deprive a small region of input, and axons from neighboring areas undergo exuberant outgrowth and pruning, in order to reactivate the freed-up real estate. While scientists know what causes new

NIH Funds Prevention Trials and Translational Studies

COMMUNITY NEWS 2013-09-20 Community News The National Institutes of Health announced September 18 that it will allocate $45 million in new funding to advance Alzheimer’s research. The bulk of the money will help support therapeutic prevention trials in cognitively healthy populati

Immune Receptor Binds Aβ Oligomers, Spurs Synaptic Loss

RESEARCH NEWS 2013-09-20 Research News The list of claimed Aβ receptors is growing, and the latest addition hails from the immune system. In the September 20 Science, Carla Shatz of Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, and collaborators elsewhere report Aβ oligomer binding

Tau Tracer May Light Up All Tauopathies

RESEARCH NEWS 2013-09-20 Research News Researchers attempting to spy tau pathology in the living human brain have come up with a trio of options. In the September 18 Neuron, brain imagers from the National Institute of Radiological Sciences in Chiba, Japan, present the first publ

A New Genetic Risk Factor for Early Onset Parkinson's

RESEARCH NEWS 2013-09-19 Research News Scientists have pinpointed many gene variants that heighten a person’s risk for Parkinson's, but rarely have they happened upon deletions of whole chromosome fragments. Now, researchers led by Anne Bassett, Centre for Addiction and Ment

Paper Alert: FUS a Fixer of Damaged DNA

RESEARCH NEWS 2013-09-19 Research News The amyotrophic lateral sclerosis gene FUS mends broken DNA strands, according to a paper in the September 15 Nature Neuroscience online. FUS has also been linked to frontotemporal dementia. As originally reported by Alzforum at a Keystone S

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