Neuroscience

Proteins in eye's nerve cells linked to Alzheimer's disease

An abnormal form of the tau protein found to accumulate in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients also accumulates in the eyes of patients with the condition, according to new findings from Cedars-Sinai investigators.

Neuroscience

Growing evidence supports 40Hz gamma stimulation for brain health

A decade after scientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT first began testing whether sensory stimulation of the brain's 40Hz "gamma" frequency rhythms could treat Alzheimer's disease in mice, a growing ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Sixteen new Alzheimer's disease susceptibility genes discovered

Investigators from Mass General Brigham have conducted a multi-ancestry, whole genome sequencing association study of Alzheimer's disease and found evidence for 16 new susceptibility genes, expanding the study of Alzheimer's ...

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