What if Alzheimer's disease left its mark on the embryo? Khadijeh Shabani and her colleagues from the Brain Development team led by Bassem Hassan (Inserm) at Paris Brain Institute show that the amyloid precursor protein (APP) ...
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Devastating neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington's, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's are all associated with protein deposits in the brain, known as amyloid. Despite extensive research investment into the cause and toxicity ...
Jun 13, 2023
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Three men who had heart failure caused by the build-up of sticky, toxic proteins are now free of symptoms after their condition spontaneously reversed in an unprecedented case described by a team at UCL (University College ...
Jun 7, 2023
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About two-thirds of the risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD) is thought to arise from genetic influences, but about a third could be influenced by environment and lifestyle, opening the door for behavioral interventions that ...
May 31, 2023
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Scientists have long explored the link between disturbances in sleep patterns and neurodegenerative diseases. Powerful evidence has emerged in recent years linking disrupted sleep to Parkinson's, and a massive body of research ...
Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the accumulation of plaques of the amyloid-β protein, chronic inflammation and impaired neuronal function in the brain. The most significant genetic risk factor for the disease is ...
May 24, 2023
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For the first time, researchers described the structure of a special type of amyloid beta plaque protein associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression. In a report published May 10 in the journal Neuron, scientists ...
May 10, 2023
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Women are about twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Some of that is age; in the U.S., women outlive men by five to six years, and advanced age is the strongest risk factor for Alzheimer's. But ...
May 2, 2023
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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.
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