Tag: Alzheimer

January 4, 2019

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Fungal infections are emerging as a major medical challenge, and a team led by researchers ...

Better mouse model built to enable precision-medicine research for Alzheimer's

December 27, 2018

NIH-funded team shows that introducing genetic diversity improves translatability Incorporating genetic diversity into a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease resulted ...

Kicking, yelling during sleep? Study finds risk factors for violent sleep disorder

MINNEAPOLIS - Taking antidepressants for depression, having post-traumatic stress disorder or anxiety diagnosed by a doctor are risk factors for ...

Losing neurons can sometimes not be that bad

New results could lead to a complete rethinking of therapeutical approaches to Alzheimer'sCredit: Dina Coelho (CCU) For the first time, ...

News releases about health, Earth science and social sciences make up EurekAlert!'s 2018 trending news list

Health-related news occupied six of the 10 most-viewed news releases on EurekAlert! in 2018. The most popular news release, "'Study: ...

Autophagy and mitochondria: Targets in neurodegenerative disorders

This article by Dr. Ashutosh Kumar et al. is published in CNS & Neurological Disorders - Drug Targets, Volume 17, ...

Pitt-led research describes how neurons could disconnect from each other in Huntington's disease

December 24, 2018

Arvind Suresh PITTSBURGH, Dec. 24, 2018 - A hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington's is the progressive death of nerve ...

Air pollution in Mexico City is associated with the development of Alzheimer disease

December 21, 2018

The evolving axonal damage can be identified using a novel Non-P-Tau assay for cerebrospinal fluid CSF: New study Air pollution ...

Scientists uncover how protein clumps damage cells in Parkinson's

December 20, 2018

Enzymes modify tau to create tau-alpha-synuclein clumps on mitochondriaCredit: Courtesy Scripps Research JUPITER, FL - Biologists studying Parkinson's disease have ...

NIH-developed test detects protein associated with Alzheimer's and CTE

December 20, 2018

Findings could lead to early diagnosis, better treatment studiesCredit: NIAID WHAT: An ultrasensitive test has been developed that detects a ...

FAU Brain Institute Fellows receive $1.1 million from Florida Department of Health

Researchers awarded grants from the Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer's Disease Research ProgramCredit: Florida Atlantic University In Florida, there are ...

Tau protein suppresses neural activity in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease

Massachusetts General study reveals how interaction between A-beta and tau proteins leads to pathological effects A study from Massachusetts General ...

Major international project aims to identify causes of dementia

European scientists have launched a research programme, which aims to identify common causes of dementia in Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease ...

Brain confetti — why our sense of smell declines in old age