Senate Ups Funding for Alzheimer’s Research by $350 million for 2020
Bringing the total NIH funding for Alzheimer’s research up to $2.8 billion, the Senate continued its steady upward climb in spending for the disease.
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Bringing the total NIH funding for Alzheimer’s research up to $2.8 billion, the Senate continued its steady upward climb in spending for the disease.
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Besides further broadening the Alzheimer’s therapeutic pipeline, researchers urge a return to Phase 2, using artificial intelligence tools to streamline aspects of trials.
An expanded set of CSF biomarkers exposed tight connections between p-tau, synaptic dysfunction, and neuroinflammation in people with brain amyloid.
Positive allosteric modulators improve learning and memory in mouse models of AD and epilepsy.
In early Alzheimer’s disease, the pattern of tau deposition also strongly predicts areas destined for subsequent degeneration.
These oily microglia resemble the foamy macrophages seen in atherosclerotic plaques. They correlate with aging, inflammation, and neurodegenerative disease.
Aberrant protein-protein interactions centered on HSP90 may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease. Can an inhibitor set things right?
Frequent heading weakened verbal memory in amateur soccer players, and more so in ApoE4 carriers.
Poor lysosomal function in dopaminergic neurons derived from people with YOPD points to disease origin and potential therapies.
Data from different next-generation tracers look similar. It shows spreading plaques kick off tangles by Braak region; memory starts slipping later.
Synapse loss and mitochondrial stress, as seen by separate PET tracers, go hand-in-hand in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and frontotemporal dementia.
FDA approves adding safety and efficacy data from an Alzheimer’s trial to the drug’s label.
The creation of long-term memories requires a continual supply of myelin provided by newly formed oligodendrocytes. Alas, the generation of fresh oligodendrocytes diminishes with age, along with memory.
Vision improved in some retinitis pigmentosa patients in a Phase 1 trial.