Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Chemical advance supports treatment Alzheimer's disease

Researchers at the University of Liverpool and Victoria University of Wellington have made a significant step forward in the search for a treatment for Alzheimer's disease. 

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Alzheimer amyloid clumps found in young adult brains

Amyloid—an abnormal protein whose accumulation in the brain is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease—starts accumulating inside neurons of people as young as 20, a much younger age than scientists ever imagined, reports a ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Molecular inhibitor breaks cycle that leads to Alzheimer's

A molecular chaperone has been found to inhibit a key stage in the development of Alzheimer's disease and break the toxic chain reaction that leads to the death of brain cells, a new study shows. The research provides an ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Immune cells are an ally, not enemy, in battle against Alzheimer's

Beta-amyloid is a sticky protein that aggregates and forms small plaques in the brains of the elderly and is thought to be a cause of Alzheimer's disease. Because specialized immune cells always surround these plaques, many ...

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