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Researchers develop novel antibodies to diagnose and treat Alzheimer's disease

Under normal circumstances, the tau protein is a hard-working participant in memory and normal brain functioning. But as is becoming increasingly evident, in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, tau not ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chronic stress spawns protein aggregates linked to Alzheimer's

Repeated stress triggers the production and accumulation of insoluble tau protein aggregates inside the brain cells of mice, say researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New hope for treating Alzheimer's Disease: A role for the FKBP52 protein

New research in humans published today reveals that the so-called FKBP52 protein may prevent the Tau protein from turning pathogenic. This may prove significant for the development of new Alzheimer's drugs and for detecting ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Untangling the mysteries of Alzheimer's

One of the most distinctive signs of the development of Alzheimer's disease is a change in the behavior of a protein that neuroscientists call tau. In normal brains, tau is present in individual units essential to neuron ...

Neuroscience created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study shows Alzheimer's disease may spread by 'jumping' from one brain region to another

For decades, researchers have debated whether Alzheimer's disease starts independently in vulnerable brain regions at different times, or if it begins in one region and then spreads to neuroanatomically connected areas. A ...

Neuroscience created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Same genes linked to early- and late-onset Alzheimer's disease

The same gene mutations linked to inherited, early-onset Alzheimer's disease have been found in people with the more common late-onset form of the illness.

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Alzheimer's: French scientists focus on key target

French scientists said on Tuesday that lack of a key brain protein was linked to Alzheimer's, a finding that threw up a tempting target for drugs to fight the disease.

Neuroscience created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

High levels of tau protein linked to poor recovery after brain injury

High levels of tau protein in fluid bathing the brain are linked to poor recovery after head trauma, according to a study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Fondazione IRCCS ...

Neuroscience created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Alzheimer's vaccine cures memory of mice

(Medical Xpress) -- A vaccine that slows the progression of Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia has been developed by researchers at the University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Research Institute ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Imaging technique IDs plaques, tangles in brains of severely depressed older adults

Depression is one of the most common mental disorders in the elderly, but little is known about the underlying biology of its development in older adults.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Alzheimer's might be transmissible in similar way as infectious prion diseases: study

The brain damage that characterizes Alzheimer's disease may originate in a form similar to that of infectious prion diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob, according to newly published ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Alzheimer's protein detected in brain fluid of healthy mice

(Medical Xpress) -- One of the most promising markers of Alzheimer’s disease, previously thought only to be inside nerve cells, now appears to be normally released from nerve cells throughout life, according ...

Neuroscience created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Three possible susceptibility genes found in neurodegenerative disorder

An international research team, co-led by scientists at Mayo Clinic's campus in Florida, have discovered three potential susceptibility genes for development of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a rare neurodegenerative ...

Genetics created Jun 19, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Weight loss after gastric bypass surgery reduces expression of Alzheimer's genes

Obesity is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, but weight loss due to bariatric surgery may reduce the risk of this common dementia, a new study suggests. The results will be presented Sunday at The Endocrine Society's ...

Medical research created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stress may increase risk for Alzheimer's disease

Stress promotes neuropathological changes that are also seen in Alzheimer's disease. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich have discovered that the increased release of stress hormones in rats leads ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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