Alzheimer’s Disease: Protective Immune Cells Active Decades Before Symptom Onset
Boosting the brain’s defenses could help combat the disease. In individuals with a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s disease, the immune cells of the brain –…
Boosting the brain’s defenses could help combat the disease. In individuals with a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s disease, the immune cells of the brain –…
In a study of older adults, longer, more frequent daytime napping in a specific year predicted worse cognitive performance in the following year, and vice…
New research from Griffith University has shown that a bacterium commonly present in the nose can sneak into the brain and set off a cascade…
Amyloid beta, a protein known to build-up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, also helps skin cancer cells thrive when they spread to the brain,…
People with dementia struggle to adapt to changes in their environment because of damage to areas of the brain known as ‘multiple demand networks’, highly-evolved…
A European consortium coordinated by UNIGE shows how a mutation in the APOE protein changes the lipid transport in the brain and could promote the…
Epidemiological studies have shown that women are twice as likely as men to develop Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but the cause of this phenomenon has been…
People who are more physically fit are less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than people who are less physically fit, according to a preliminary study…
Epidemiological data have long linked depression with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive dementia that affects nearly 6 million Americans. Now, a…
Ability of immune system to destroy Alzheimer’s-related protein oscillates with daily circadian rhythm. The brain’s ability to clear a protein closely linked to Alzheimer’s disease…
A simple eye test may make diagnosing the earliest stages of ‘diseases of old age’ possible when people are much younger, University of Otago researchers…
The findings provide a mechanism that links Alzheimer’s disease with circadian rhythm disruptions. Researchers report that the immune cells responsible for clearing away a key…
Patients hospitalized for COVID-19 had higher levels over the short term of blood proteins known to rise with neurological damage than non-COVID-19 patients diagnosed with…
Some cognitively frail adults have impaired cognition but intact brain structure and function. At the first sign of cognitive trouble, people often worry Alzheimer’s disease…
Enhanced nerve transmission seen in older adults who remained active. When elderly people stay active, their brains have more of a class of proteins that…
Via drug repositioning, Osaka City University creates combination of rifampicin and resveratrol and have shown in mouse models that the nasal administration improves cognitive function…
A study conducted at the University of Helsinki and the Helsinki University Hospital suggests that the APOE4 allele may also increase cerebral microhemorrhages related to…
Scripps Research Discovery Illuminates How Brain Cells Die in Prion Diseases Researchers show how toxic aggregates are formed inside brain cells, and how to block…