Alzheimer's research moves at a punishing pace. Because the disease is age-related, scientists have to work with old mice, and each experiment can take a year and a half to two years before it even yields conclusions worth building on.... Continue Reading →
Researchers found that it isn't amyloid plaques themselves keeping the Alzheimer's brain awake — it's the brain's own immune cells overreacting to them, like a sprinkler system flooding the whole house over a small kitchen fire.
Every neuron in your brain is constantly drinking in its surroundings, pulling in nutrients, chemical signals, and bits of its own outer membrane in a process called endocytosis. It's how brain cells learn, remember, and stay maintained day to day.... Continue Reading →
You've probably heard that Alzheimer's involves sticky protein clumps forming in the brain. But here's what scientists have never been able to do, until now: watch it happen in real time. A team at Oregon State University, led by chemistry... Continue Reading →
NEW YORK, NY, December 23, 2024 — Researchers with the CUNY ASRC have unveiled a critical mechanism that links cellular stress in the brain to the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The study, published in the journal Neuron, highlights microglia, the brain’s primary... Continue Reading →
Older people who were infected with COVID-19 show a substantially higher risk—as much as 50% to 80% higher than a control group—of developing Alzheimer’s disease within a year, according to a study of more than 6 million patients 65 and... Continue Reading →
The locus coeruleus is among the first brain regions to degenerate in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, physicians and scientists have known. But why this area is so vulnerable is less understood. While continuing their exploration of a rare neurogenetic disorder,... Continue Reading →
In a bit of “reverse engineering” research using brain tissues from five people who died with Alzheimer’s disease, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they discovered that a special sugar molecule could play a key role in the development of Alzheimer’s... Continue Reading →
For the first time, researchers have used human data to quantify the speed of different processes that lead to Alzheimer’s disease and found that it develops in a very different way than previously thought. Their results could have important implications... Continue Reading →