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RESEARCH NEWS 2019-02-26 Research News On their own, most genetic variations linked to Alzheimer’s disease affect a person’s risk by a minuscule amount. Together, however, they pack a wallop, at least according to a follow-up study led by Rahul Desikan at the University of Califo
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-03-08 Research News Iron is an essential nutrient, but like any good thing, too much of it may do harm. According to an autopsy study published February 18 in Molecular Psychiatry, people who had had dementia and moderate to high burdens of plaques and tangles
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-03-13 Research News In the March 11 Scientific Reports, researchers led by Noel Faux at IBM Research Australia in Southbank propose yet another blood test for Alzheimer’s disease, this one based on simple immunoassays. The scientists used machine learning to id
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-03-15 Research News New data expands on the benefits of gamma wave therapy previously reported in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers led by MIT scientist Li-Huei Tsai report that sound can entrain gamma oscillations in both the auditory cortex and
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-03-22 Research News Scientists have known for years that the common H1 haplotype of the tau gene MAPT somehow raises a person’s risk of the rare neurodegenerative disorder progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). It does so by more than fivefold, similar to what A
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-03-29 Research News Women with shorter-than-average reproductive periods are at a markedly increased risk for dementia, according to a paper published March 27 in Neurology. Researchers led by Paola Gilsanz at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland a
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-04-11 Research News Results were published today from the APECS trial, a Phase 3 study of the BACE1 inhibitor verubecestat. In the April 11 New England Journal of Medicine, researchers led by Michael Egan, Merck, Kenilworth, New Jersey, reported that dementia p
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-04-12 Research News Chronic traumatic encephalopathy can only be formally diagnosed by examining the brain after death, but researchers are inching closer to spotting the neuropathological hallmarks of disease during life. A study published April 10 in the New
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-05-02 Research News Damaged axons spill their guts, and the debris eventually makes its way into the bloodstream. Now, scientists tracking one such neuron-derived protein are moving closer to a blood test for neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease. In a longi
CONFERENCE COVERAGE 2019-05-10 Conference Coverage In Parkinson’s disease, abnormal deposits called Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites pop up in neurons and processes, respectively. In 1998, Maria Grazia Spillantini at the University of Cambridge identified α-synuclein as their major compon
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-05-17 Research News Scientists know that synaptic plasticity requires local protein production from translation of mRNAs in postsynaptic dendrites. However, local synthesis had not been clearly demonstrated on the other, presynaptic side in mature axons. A new
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-05-29 Research News The brainstem, wedged between the spinal cord and the cortex, collects sensory input and distributes it throughout the brain, where it affects all manner of cognitive processing. For example, input from the brainstem’s locus coeruleus to the
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-05-31 Research News The lucky carriers of a coding variant in the phospholipase Cγ2 (PLCG2) gene may reap even more benefits than previously thought. In the May 27 Acta Neuropathologica, researchers confirm that people with the rs72824905-G allele not only enjo
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-06-08 Research News Amyloid deposits without causing symptoms for years, but once tau tangles accumulate, cognition craters. That’s the prevailing model for the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. The newest support for it comes from the first longitudinal stud
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-06-14 Research News For decades, researchers have wondered why Aβ deposits in the brain correlate poorly with local neural activity and cognition. Perhaps the correlation was not that weak, after all. A study in the June 4 Nature Communications suggests that it
