Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science have discovered a mutation that can protect against Alzheimer’s disease in mice.
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How Alzheimer’s trials could help stay a step ahead of the disease
Being a medical guinea pig could help Alzheimer’s patients stay a step ahead of the memory-robbing disease About 850,000 Britons
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Tau-Microtubule and Neurological Diseases: Structural model of physiological tau-microtubule interactions sheds light on neurological diseases that correlate with their disruption
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley have combined cutting-edge cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM)
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Issues of dementia and gun ownership need more discussion, researchers say: When should families, physicians and caregivers talk to dementia patients about giving up firearms?
As the number of adults with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia steadily increases, questions around their access to firearms remain largely
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Why people become more prone to distraction with age: A specific brain network, the locus coeruleus, that controls our ability to focus while under stress appears to weaken as we age, interfering with our ability to focus
Older adults appear more easily distracted by irrelevant information than younger people when they experience stress or powerful emotions —
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Mediterranean diet may delay Alzheimer’s by more than three years
Mediterranean diet may delay Alzheimer’s disease by more than three years: Eating lots of vegetables, fish and olive oil preserves
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How small molecule halts spread of toxic protein associated with Alzheimer’s progression: Research could help lead to design of drugs that slow neurodegeneration
Alzheimer’s disease destroys brain cells in part by promoting the formation of insoluble clumps that contain a protein called tau.
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Dementia trend shows later onset with fewer years of the disease
The diagnosis is one that a family never wants to hear: Your father has Alzheimer’s disease. Your mother has stroke-related
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Alzheimer’s disease redefined: New research framework defines Alzheimer’s by brain changes, not symptoms
“NIA-AA Research Framework: Towards a Biological Definition of Alzheimer’s Disease” was published today in the April 2018 issue of Alzheimer’s
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Scientists fix genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease in human brain cells: New insights into how a gene causes damage could impact future drug development
Using human brain cells, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes discovered the cause of — and a potential solution for —
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