Mark Smith, 45, Is Struck and Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver
As shocked researchers notify each other privately, the Alzforum editors are saddened to inform the community at large that Mark Smith died last Sunday...
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As shocked researchers notify each other privately, the Alzforum editors are saddened to inform the community at large that Mark Smith died last Sunday...
In hunting for mutations that cause ALS, researchers discovered that VCP mutations, long thought to spare the spine, are instead a cause of inherited ALS...
Whenever scientists start looking at ways to maintain memory, some of the same names keep cropping up...
A study suggests that people at genetic risk for AD can show disrupted functional connections in the default-mode network—even without much detectable brain amyloid...
Many scientists now believe that Alzheimer’s disease attacks first at synapses...
The deafening buzz of firing neurons can drop to a dull hum if too much Aβ collects in the brain...
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The New York Times ran an extensive piece by writer Gina Kolata on recent advances...
Scientists are developing better ways to predict who will develop Alzheimer’s disease...
Who says Alzheimer's drug development is all Aβ all the time?...
Progranulin mutations cause some forms of frontotemporal dementia, but exactly what the protein does and how it fails in disease are open questions...
Mutations in SOD1, which lead to ALS, cause SOD1 to buddy up with mitochondrial proteins and interfere with normal mitochondrial conductance...
The National Alzheimer’s Project Act could be signed into law just in time for Christmas...
Progress has been slow for researchers toiling to discern the physical makeup of Aβ oligomers, widely seen as the form of amyloid-β most dangerous in AD...
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