Gut-Brain Connection. People who have CD83+ microglia in their brains also have HCMV (top left) and IgG4 (top right) in their ...

Notably, this coupling crumbles with age in mice. Restoring it not only bolstered neuronal energy reserves, but also strengthened synaptic signaling and counteracted memory loss in old animals.

The easiest way to track down "when" in a chronic disorder like AD is with the causal quartet, those carrying disease-causing mutations in APP, PSEN1, PSEN2 and SORL1, and, as you expand, including ...

Dennis J. Selkoe, M.D. The Vincent and Stella Coates Professor of Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School. Co-Director, Center for Neurologic Diseases, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s ...

While all three genotypes of mice performed similarly to wild-type animals on multiple behavioral and spatial memory tests, ...

Many genes and proteins have been linked to Alzheimer’s, but which ones directly contribute to disease? This question has been hard to answer. In the December 11 Cell Genomics, scientists led by ...

Why is age the strongest risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease? In the December 10 Science Signaling, scientists led by Ning Bai, Difei Wang, Yu Di, and Liu Cao at China Medical University in Shenyang, ...

Sixty percent said they would take a disease-modifying treatment if it provided three additional years of independence, compared to 45 percent for a treatment offering six months. These numbers varied ...