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Failure is normal for researchers engaged in the frustrating search for drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease.
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Category Archives: Research
Model your life time risk
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Scientists reveal model that estimates lifetime risk of developing Alzheimer’s dementia
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End to the protein deposits?
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UC San Diego and Scripps Research Institute scientists announced Wednesday they have identified a gene that prevents harmful protein deposits, or “aggregates,” associated with neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
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Success with fruit flies!
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Researchers have reversed symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in fruit flies by adjusting the production of certain enzymes. The finding may open doors to exploring epigenetics as a potential avenue for Alzheimer’s disease treatments
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Animal memory may help Alzheimer’s research
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Have you ever looked at your dog or cat and wondered whether it can remember that you recently rewarded or scolded them — and when that happened?
Indiana University neuroscientists have discovered what they say is the first evidence nonhuman animals can replay a stream of past events from memory — and even the sequence in which those events occurred.
The discovery of this type of episodic memory in rodents may someday help advance the development of new drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease, said Jonathon Crystal, a professor and director of the neurosciences program at IU-Bloomington
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Brain Cholesterol And Alzheimer’s
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New evidence shows for the first time how cholesterol molecules can act as a catalyst in causing amyloid beta to cluster into plaques.
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