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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

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0