More Antibodies take aim at seeded propagation. New data ties tangle location to deficits in specific cognitive domains. Three first-in-human studies for antibodies targeting different parts of tau ...
Nicotinamide riboside (NR) is a patented analog of nicotinamide or Vitamin B3, and is sold as a dietary supplement under the brand name Tru Niagen. Cells use NR to synthesize NAD+, an essential ...
Tau hyperphosphorylation and conformational changes in the brain parenchyma start around seven months. Tangle-like pathology is mainly observed in the brain stem and spinal cord, and to a lesser ...
The Alzheimer’s field was rocked this week by allegations against Sylvain Lesné at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Lesné stands accused of manipulating data images in multiple papers, ...
On Tuesday September 10, Francisco Lopera died of cancer at his home in Medellin, Colombia. He was 73, and only just beginning to see his life’s work come to fruition. In fact, Lopera still had much ...
This database is a repository of normal genetic variability, designed to be a tool for researchers who study neurodegenerative disease. It contains whole-exome sequencing results from nearly 500 ...
Long before carriers of autosomal-dominant AD mutations notice the first hints of memory loss, changes in their brains are well underway at the protein level. In a study published September 26 in Cell ...
Buoyed by data crediting amyloid removal with ever-so-slightly slowed cognitive decline, many scientists are now optimistic about the prospects for anti-amyloid immunotherapy. Four “-mabs”—of the ...
In a watershed moment for the field, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the first Alzheimer’s treatment that tackles the underlying disease pathology. Biogen and Eisai’s anti-amyloid ...
A potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease relies on 40 Hz light or sound to entrain gamma rhythms in the brain. This intervention, pioneered by Li-Huei Tsai and colleagues at Massachusetts ...
Part 1 of 2. Click here for Part 2. As Alzheimer’s clinicians across the U.S. started offering a disease-modifying treatment to their patients, uptake at first was slow but is now speeding up. Six ...
Introduction Despite being arguably the second most common dementing disorder, dementia with Lewy bodies, aka DLB, remains both mysterious and understudied. On Tuesday, October 10, 2017, the Lewy Body ...