Atherosclerotic arteries aren’t just a problem for the heart—they’re bad news for the brain, too. Now, scientists led by Wei Wang, Dai-Shi Tian, and Chuan Qin of Huazhong University of Science and ...

What goes wrong first in the Alzheimer’s disease brain? Scientists led by Marc Aurel Busche of the U.K. Dementia Research Institute at University College London may have an answer. In the May 7 Neuron ...

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As biomarker testing becomes more common in Alzheimer’s research, scientists face the tricky question of whether to disclose results. In studies of hypothetical scenarios, including a recent survey ...

In a milestone for Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis and care, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on May 16 cleared for marketing the first AD blood test. Fujirebio’s Lumipulse G p-tau217/Aβ42 ...

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Creating models for primary tauopathies sounds simple enough. Select a human tau gene variant that causes disease, stick it where the endogenous mouse gene sits in its genome, then wait a few months ...

What are physicians learning from their early experiences prescribing amyloid immunotherapy? In the May 12 JAMA Neurology, Joy Snider and Suzanne Schindler and colleagues at Washington University, St.

Neurofibrillary tangles mark Alzheimer’s disease and a plethora of primary tauopathies. How best to study them in the lab? Most mouse tauopathy models overexpress the human tau protein and are highly ...

Now that doctors are prescribing anti-amyloid therapies for Alzheimer’s disease, scientists have begun to focus their energy on the other pathological hallmark of AD, neurofibrillary tangles. While ...

Perhaps our most defining characteristic as a species, the six-layered human cortex, hosts billions of neural connections that bestow Homo sapiens with higher-order thinking. But how does this ...

Tau pulls the plug on the neural activity that forms memories, according to researchers led by Marc Aurel Busche at the U.K. Dementia Research Institute at University College London. On April 23 in ...