Neuroscience
Dementia study reveals how proteins interact to stop brain signals
Fresh insights into damaging proteins that build up in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease could aid the quest for treatments.
Dec 10, 2019
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Inflammatory processes drive progression of Alzheimer's and other brain diseases
Inflammation drives the progression of neurodegenerative brain diseases and plays a major role in the accumulation of tau proteins within neurons. An international research team led by the German Center for Neurodegenerative ...
Nov 20, 2019
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Neuroscience
High-salt diet promotes cognitive impairment through the Alzheimer-linked protein tau
A high-salt diet may negatively affect cognitive function by causing a deficiency of the compound nitric oxide, which is vital for maintaining vascular health in the brain, according to a new study in mice from Weill Cornell ...
Oct 23, 2019
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
In Alzheimer's research, scientists reveal brain rhythm role
In the years since her lab discovered that exposing Alzheimer's disease model mice to light flickering at the frequency of a key brain rhythm could stem the disorder's pathology, MIT neuroscientist Li-Huei Tsai and her team ...
Oct 22, 2019
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Neuroscience
Tau-mediated RNA splicing errors linked to Alzheimer's disease
A collaborative study published today in the journal Cell Reports provides evidence for a new molecular cause for neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease. The study, led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the ...
Oct 8, 2019
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Protein tangles linked with dementia seen in patients after single head injury
Scientists have visualised for the first time protein 'tangles' associated with dementia in the brains of patients who have suffered a single head injury.
Sep 4, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Sorting protein in neurons defends against neurodegenerative disease
Like a sorting machine in an assembly line, a molecule known as VPS35 detects and removes defective proteins from neurons. And similar to other quality control processes, the VPS35 system goes a long way toward protecting ...
Jul 9, 2019
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Age itself appears to increase the spread of Alzheimer's-associated tau in the brain
A study by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) finds evidence that spread through the brain of the Alzheimer's-disease-associated protein tau is facilitated by factors within the aging brain itself and not ...
Jun 26, 2019
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Alzheimer's disease is a 'double-prion disorder,' study shows
Two proteins central to the pathology of Alzheimer's disease act as prions—misshapen proteins that spread through tissue like an infection by forcing normal proteins to adopt the same misfolded shape—according to new ...
May 1, 2019
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Tau protein suppresses neural activity in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease
A study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators sheds new light on how the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease—amyloid-beta (A-beta) plaques and neurofibrillary tangles containing the protein tau—produce ...
Dec 19, 2018
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