11th ICFTD Meeting in Sydney Sorts Out Clinical Subtypes Natural History Studies Provide Foundation for FTD Research Tracking Onset and Progression of Frontotemporal Dementia A Proteomics Dive into Cause of Frontotemporal Dementia Encompassing more than ...
Swine that express mutated human SOD1 exhibit the hallmarks of ALS pathology, including aggregates and degeneration in motor neurons, preceded by a lengthy preclinical phase.
At SfN, some scientists described how circulating immune cells deliver aging to the mouse hippocampus; others held off parkinsonism by blocking the effects of eotaxin’s rise in blood. Human trials are starting.
Recent conferences revealed that tau is most toxic in oligomeric form, that tau oligomers propagate throughout the brain, and that tau oligomers might harm synapses from within or via astrocytes.
Toxic Stew of Aβ Dimers Hides Out in Human Plaques How Immune Cells From Blood Beget Aging in Brain Toxic Tau: Who Are You, and Where Are You From? Tau Silences, Aβ Inflames; Hitting Excitatory Synapses Hardest When Glial Clocks Fall Out of Sync, ...
By marrying iPSCs, human genomic data, and analysis of postmortem tissue, researchers tied loss of GABAergic signaling to tauopathies such as FTD and PSP, but not AD.
In neurons derived from FTD patients, microtubules distort the nucleus, warping its normally rounded membrane and disrupting communication with the cytoplasm.
Frail people may be more likely to have Aβ plaques and neurofibrillary tangles; when they do, they are more likely to have dementia. Physical activity correlated with better global cognition, regardless of brain pathology.