Health
Sleep deprivation accelerates Alzheimer's brain damage
Poor sleep has long been linked with Alzheimer's disease, but researchers have understood little about how sleep disruptions drive the disease.
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Scientists uncover how protein clumps damage cells in Parkinson's
Biologists studying Parkinson's disease have long hoped to solve the mystery of the telltale "clumps." Scientists want to know how clumps of misfolded proteins damage brain cells and contribute to the disease.
Dec 20, 2018
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Neuroscience
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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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
One type of brain cell may invite Alzheimer's
Better tactics for detecting, preventing and treating Alzheimer's disease depend on a clearer understanding of cellular-level changes in the minds of patients, and a new study has uncovered novel details about the vulnerability ...
Dec 17, 2018
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Neuroscience
Neurons with good housekeeping are protected from Alzheimer's
Some neurons in the brain protect themselves from Alzheimer's with a cellular cleaning system that sweeps away toxic proteins associated with the disease, according to a new study from Columbia University and the University ...
Dec 17, 2018
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
New discoveries predict ability to forecast dementia from single molecule
Scientists who recently identified the molecular start of Alzheimer's disease have used that finding to determine that it should be possible to forecast which type of dementia will develop over time—a form of personalized ...
Dec 11, 2018
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Blood test for tau, Alzheimer's disease under development
Today, the only way to definitively diagnose Alzheimer's disease in life is through brain scans and tests of cerebrospinal fluid that must be collected via lumbar puncture. Though cumbersome and expensive, such tests provide ...
Dec 6, 2018
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
New PET tracer identified for imaging tau in Alzheimer's disease patients
In the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and the search for effective treatments, tau tangles in the brain have joined amyloid build-up as markers of the disease and potential therapy targets. In the December issue of The ...
Dec 6, 2018
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
New information on the pathological mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease
Researchers at the University of Helsinki have discovered a mechanism by which harmful tau protein aggregates are transmitted between neurons. Alongside amyloid plaques, tau aggregates in the brain are a significant factor ...
Nov 21, 2018
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Genetics
Drug candidate may recover vocal abilities lost to ADNP syndrome
Activity-dependent neuroprotective protein syndrome (ADNP syndrome) is a rare genetic condition that causes developmental delays, intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder symptoms in thousands of children worldwide. ...
Nov 15, 2018
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