In Case You Wondered: Neurodegenerative Diseases Are Not Contagious
Mounting evidence suggests that toxic proteins that cause Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other neurodegenerative diseases spread from neuron to neuron through the brain...
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Mounting evidence suggests that toxic proteins that cause Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other neurodegenerative diseases spread from neuron to neuron through the brain...
Scientists worldwide now perform amyloid imaging on scores of research participants to figure out how Aβ buildup relates to other markers of neurodegeneration...
Like a blue moon, could oligomeric amyloid-β in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) be too rare to be informative?...
What transforms tau from a well-behaved protein into a rogue?...
Did you ever wonder what all the studies on weight and Alzheimer’s amount to at the end of the day?...
A centiloid is a proposed unit of measure on a unified scale for all amyloid-β imaging tracers used in positron emission tomography (PET)...
Clifford Jack's hypothetical model showing biomarkers emerging at different stages of AD surged to the top of the Most-Popular-Slide-at-Conferences chart...
Your health insurance may not cover brain amyloid scans anytime soon...
C9ORF72, made by the ALS-linked gene of the same name, finally has a job description: According to two recent studies, it regulates membrane trafficking...
Since the FDA approved the Aβ imaging agent florbetapir (Amyvid®) last April, academics and doctors have debated how it should be used...
The 2013 Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick’s, Alzheimer’s, and Related Diseases will go to three neurologists who have helped advance human longitudinal studies of AD...