Sleep disturbances can be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease. Many people eventually diagnosed with Alzheimer's start experiencing difficulty falling and staying asleep years before cognitive problems such as memory loss ...
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) can be divided into rare early onset familial AD (fAD) and common late onset sporadic AD (sAD) that impairs the memory and cognitive functions of older people worldwide.
Apr 14, 2023
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An analysis of human brain cells provides new evidence in support of the "amyloid hypothesis," the prevailing idea that Alzheimer's is caused by the accumulation of beta-amyloid proteins in the brain.
Mar 31, 2023
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Scientists have been working to understand the root causes of dementia and Alzheimer's disease for decades now. But one of the reasons we don't yet have a cure for this disease is because of the complexity of the human brain—alongside ...
Mar 21, 2023
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A newly discovered "energy switch" in the immune cells of the brain may lead to the development of drugs for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia.
Mar 15, 2023
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Preliminary results from a landmark clinical trial to prevent Alzheimer's disease (AD) symptoms show that an investigational anti-amyloid drug, solanezumab, did not demonstrate a statistically significant slowing of cognitive ...
Mar 9, 2023
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Nearly two dozen experimental therapies targeting the immune system are in clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease, a reflection of the growing recognition that immune processes play a key role in driving the brain damage ...
Mar 8, 2023
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Reducing the methylation of a key messenger RNA can promote migration of macrophages into the brain and ameliorate symptoms of Alzheimer's disease in a mouse model, according to a new study publishing March 7 in the open ...
Mar 7, 2023
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Cholesterol tremendously increases the toxicity of a peptide implicated in Alzheimer's progression, according to research by scientists in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in Texas A&M's College of Agriculture ...
Mar 1, 2023
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For the first time, a researcher at the University of Delaware College of Health Sciences in collaboration with a team at the National Institute on Aging, a division of the National Institutes of Health, has determined that ...
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