A group of specialized cells play a crucial part in clearing toxic proteins from inside the brain 1. But in people with Alzheimer’s disease, these cells malfunction, leading to the build up of tau ...
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers have used a form of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze anatomical changes in the brain and predict Alzheimer's disease with nearly 93% accuracy.
The new generation of Alzheimer's disease drugs—the first proven to change the course of the disease—typically extend ...
Accumulation of the protein tau in the brain is one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease. In a paper published in Cell ...
A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be game-changing for treating diseases like Alzheimer’s and dementia.
The Alzheimer’s field is being turned on its head as mounting evidence points to the disease beginning outside the brain many ...
One of the most important and least resolved questions in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRDs) is why brain-damaging pathology emerges in later ...