The amyloid beta protein that tangles to form the hallmark Alzheimer’s brain plaques, cling to ultra-small “bowls,” called nanobowls, scientists find. They can use these…
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New research into Alzheimer’s disease (AD) suggests that secondary infections and new inflammatory events amplify the brain’s immune response and affect memory in mice and…
The global brain signal in Alzheimer’s disease patients is associated with weaker cerebrospinal fluid flow as compared with healthy controls. Credit: Feng Han and Xiao…
The findings demonstrate how the brain’s memory center operates at a ‘watershed’ making it especially vulnerable to damage Study suggests increasing blood flow in the…
Alzheimer’s disease – also called dementia – where memory and cognitive functions gradually decline due to deformation and death of neurons, and Parkinson’s disease that…
Confocal microscopic image of microglia (green) engulfing amyloid plaques (blue). Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School Alzheimer’s Disease is the most common form of dementia and is…
Older people with kidney disease have a higher risk of dementia, and the risk increases with the rate and stage of kidney function decline. That…
Scientists at Scripps Research find evidence that antibody treatments in clinical trials for neurodegenerative diseases may trigger an inflammatory response that erodes their positive effects.…
New research reveals how cancer cells endure stress and survive. Publishing in Molecular Cell, an international research team identified mechanisms that human and mouse cells…
A potential treatment for dementia and epilepsy could look to reduce the amounts of a toxic gas in the brain has been revealed in a…
Fluorescence microscopy image of protein condensates forming inside living cells. Credit: Weitz lab, Harvard University Artificial Intelligence can ‘predict’ the biological language of cancer and…
Compared with a control (left), treatment with the novel GSM (right) reduces the number of amyloid plaques (green) and proinflammatory cells called microglia (magenta) in…
Treatable sleep disorder common in people with thinking and memory problems. Obstructive sleep apnea is when breathing is repeatedly interrupted during sleep. Research has shown…
Study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center finds adding more foods that are part of Western diet may reduce cognitive benefits of Mediterranean diet.…
Neuroscientists Discover Promising Way to Restore Cognitive Function Impaired by Alzheimer’s Disease
Neuroscientists Discover Promising Way to Restore Cognitive Function Impaired by Alzheimer’s Disease
A team of neuroscientists has identified a potential means to address the loss of cognitive function due to Alzheimer’s disease by targeting protein synthesis in…
The foods we eat may have a direct impact on our cognitive acuity in our later years. This is the key finding of an Iowa…
This image shows Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and Claudin-5 staining of an affected cell. Credit: Trinity College Dublin Scientists at Trinity College Dublin today…
Neurons are like the electrical wiring of our bodies. They are connected by synapses, which play an important role in transferring information. Inside synapses, there…
A “heat map” of the brain of a person with mild Alzheimer’s dementia shows where tau protein has accumulated, with areas of higher density in…
Airborne pollution implicated in amyloid plaques, UCSF-led study shows. A new study led by researchers at UC San Francisco has found that among older Americans…