Researchers challenge everything we know about Alzheimer's disease with shocking new findings about amyloid beta protein's role in brain health.

I have a special interest in Alzheimer’s disease. For nearly 25 years, I practiced general neurology in Portland, Oregon, and ...

Immune cells in the brain called microglia can partially break down large amyloid plaques characteristic of Alzheimer's ...

A new gene editing tool that helps cellular machinery skip parts of genes responsible for diseases has been applied to reduce the formation of amyloid-beta plaque precursors in a mouse model of ...

Microglia have been revealed to first help spread Alzheimer’s disease pathology across the brain and then activate to limit ...

Dec. 23, 2024 — A new gene editing tool that helps cellular machinery skip parts of genes responsible for diseases has been applied to reduce the formation of amyloid-beta plaque precursors in a ...

"In people with progressive cognitive decline, the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease requires a demonstration of amyloid and ...

According to the National Institutes of Health, 30-50% of brains donated to research as “controls” or healthy end up having ...

It’s called asymptomatic Alzheimer’s. Nur Jury-Garfe, PhD, assistant research professor at the IU School of Medicine says when studied postmortem, these brains show beta-amyloid plaques and tau ...

There's still so much we don't know about Alzheimer's disease, but the link between poor sleep and worsening disease is one ...

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