26 Mar 2004
Everyone knows that smoking is bad for you. But there is some evidence, both epidemiological and molecular, that smokers are at reduced risk for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's (AD) and Parkinson's (PD)...
14 Sep 2018
A behavioral intervention slowed memory slippage and functional decline over two years.
19 Oct 2018
Analysis of MRI brain volume data identifies multiple AD and FTD/ALS disease subtypes with distinct patterns of degeneration over time.
16 Oct 2018
A small molecule that protects neurons fends off a short region of Aβ from a specific pocket on the LilrB2 receptor.
19 Aug 2016
Profile matches Braak staging regions, suggesting those areas are particularly susceptible to AD pathology.
27 Sep 2018
In DIAN, participants who are more physically active may also have slower disease progression.
10 Dec 2018
In several model systems, α-synuclein boosts oleic acid production and the fatty acid worsens α-synuclein pathology.
13 Jan 2019
In presynapses, binding sequesters synaptic vesicles.
27 Mar 2007
The first rule of triage is do no harm, but try telling that to microglia...
14 Nov 2012
Rare mutations in a microglial receptor contribute as much to Alzheimer’s risk as does the more common ApoE4 genotype...
23 Jun 2008
When told what to kill, the complement system deftly deals the final blows...
25 Jun 2014
Scientists report that astrocytes help neurons destroy their unwanted mitochondria.
05 May 2017
Animal models suggest excessive NFκB-TNFα signaling brings on compulsive behavior in a frontotemporal dementia mouse model and early death in flies.
06 Jul 2018
Microfluidic tri-culture of neurons, astrocytes, and microglia models how glia impose deadly neuroinflammation on top of amyloid and tau pathology.
18 Jan 2019
Two independent studies find that loss of nuclear TDP-43 leads to mis-splicing of stathmin 2, an essential protein for axon growth and repair.