News tagged with tau
Untangling the mysteries of Alzheimer's
One of the most distinctive signs of the development of Alzheimer's disease is a change in the behavior of a protein that neuroscientists call tau. In normal brains, tau is present in individual units essential to neuron ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 02, 2012 |
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Study shows Alzheimer's disease may spread by 'jumping' from one brain region to another
For decades, researchers have debated whether Alzheimer's disease starts independently in vulnerable brain regions at different times, or if it begins in one region and then spreads to neuroanatomically connected areas. A ...
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Feb 01, 2012 |
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Same genes linked to early- and late-onset Alzheimer's disease
The same gene mutations linked to inherited, early-onset Alzheimer's disease have been found in people with the more common late-onset form of the illness.
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Alzheimer's: French scientists focus on key target
French scientists said on Tuesday that lack of a key brain protein was linked to Alzheimer's, a finding that threw up a tempting target for drugs to fight the disease.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 24, 2012 |
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High levels of tau protein linked to poor recovery after brain injury
High levels of tau protein in fluid bathing the brain are linked to poor recovery after head trauma, according to a study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Fondazione IRCCS ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 13, 2011 |
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Alzheimer's vaccine cures memory of mice
(Medical Xpress) -- A vaccine that slows the progression of Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia has been developed by researchers at the University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Research Institute ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 09, 2011 |
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Physicists propose search for fourth neutrino
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists know that neutrinos (and antineutrinos) come in three flavors: electron, muon, and tau. In several experiments, researchers have detected each of the neutrino flavors and even watched ...
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Imaging technique IDs plaques, tangles in brains of severely depressed older adults
Depression is one of the most common mental disorders in the elderly, but little is known about the underlying biology of its development in older adults.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 08, 2011 |
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Hybrid power plants can help industry go green
Hybrid cars, powered by a mixture of gas and electricity, have become a practical way to "go green" on the roads. Now researchers at Tel Aviv University are applying the term "hybrid" to power plants as well.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 03, 2011 |
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New iPhone app keeps eyesight from deteriorating
Deteriorating eyesight, which leads to the use of reading glasses, is a natural part of the aging process. But a new iPhone application developed by researchers at Tel Aviv University could keep your vision ...
Nov 01, 2011 |
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Alzheimer's might be transmissible in similar way as infectious prion diseases: study
The brain damage that characterizes Alzheimer's disease may originate in a form similar to that of infectious prion diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob, according to newly published ...
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Major US atom-smasher closes after 25 years (Update)
A powerful US atom-smasher that was the world's biggest particle collider for nearly a quarter-century closed forever on Friday, solidifying Europe's place as the world leader in physics. ...
Sep 30, 2011 |
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Alzheimer's protein detected in brain fluid of healthy mice
(Medical Xpress) -- One of the most promising markers of Alzheimer’s disease, previously thought only to be inside nerve cells, now appears to be normally released from nerve cells throughout life, according ...
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Sep 21, 2011 |
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Neutrinos: Ghostly particles with unstable egos
So far it is unknown which rules neutrinos follow when they alter their identity. A study in which scientists of the Excellence Cluster Universe at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany, participated has now revealed ...
Sep 06, 2011 |
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Will the real Higgs Boson please stand up?
Although physicists from two experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider and from Fermilab’s Tevatron collider recently reported at the Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics that they didn't find ...
Aug 11, 2011 |
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