Why do some people with amyloid plaques decline, while others do not? In the May 29 Nature Medicine, researchers led by Tharick Pascoal at the University of Pittsburgh laid some of the blame on ...
A Colombian man carried one of the most aggressive genetic mutations known to cause early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. By all ...
Just as the Hubble space telescope’s ultra-deep field illuminated thousands of galaxies swirling within a tiny, dark, patch of the sky, the cryo-electron microscope has unveiled a striking array of Aβ ...
PET scans can detect amyloid plaques and tau tangles in the brain, which are often early signs of Alzheimer’s disease. But they’re not enough on their own to make a diagnosis. Alzheimer’s disease is ...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that causes brain cell death. This progressive disease, which causes a distinct pattern of pathological changes in the brain, is most common ...