Hot flashes yet another early indicator for Alzheimer’s disease
CLEVELAND, Ohio (Sept 27, 2023)—As if hot flashes alone weren’t bad enough for women going through the menopause transition, a ...
Tag: Alzheimers
Insilico Medicine and University of Cambridge present new approach to discover targets for Alzheimer’s and other diseases with protein phase separation
New York and Cambridge, UK -- Recent research demonstrates that protein phase separation (PPS) is widely present in cells and drives ...
How do toxic proteins accumulate in Alzheimer’s and other diseases?
Under normal circumstances, tau protein is part of the brain’s infrastructure, important for stabilizing neurons into their proper shapes. But ...
FAU receives $1.3 million grant for Alzheimer’s outreach in Broward County
Florida Atlantic University’s María de los Ángeles Ortega, DNP, APRN, in the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, has been ...
FAU receives $750,000 philanthropic grant for Alzheimer’s disease
More than 720,000 Floridians will be living with Alzheimer’s disease by 2025. Currently, Florida has the second highest prevalence of ...
NIH awards $13.7 million grant to BU researchers investigating genetics of Alzheimer’s disease
For Immediate Release: September 15, 2023 Contact: Gina DiGravio, 617-358-7838, ginad@bu.edu NIH Awards $13.7 Million Grant to BU Researchers ...
Could a breakdown in the brain’s networks allow infections to contribute to Alzheimer’s disease?
The human microbiome includes the genetic material of more than 100 trillion tiny microorganisms – fungi, yeast, bacteria, and even ...
Contributions to white matter injury in Alzheimer’s disease
“The molecular mechanisms that mediate enhanced dysfunction of white matter parenchymal arterioles when vascular dysfunction and ADNC coincide remain elusive.” ...
Alzheimer’s: An M.D./Ph.D. graduate student’s request for Yuhua Song as mentor leads to two NIH R01 awards totaling $5 million
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – In the summer of 2018, graduate student Hunter Dean from the Medical Scientist Training Program came to ...
McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics researchers awarded $3.4M NIH grant to understand link between chronic health conditions and Alzheimer’s disease
A three-year, $3.4 million grant to investigate how Alzheimer’s disease is connected to multiple chronic diseases has been awarded to UTHealth ...
Exercise-induced hormone irisin may reduce Alzheimer’s disease plaque and tangle pathology in the brain
BOSTON – Researchers who previously developed the first 3D human cell culture models of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) that displays two ...
Phase I clinical trial shows treatment designed to clear senescent cells in Alzheimer’s disease is safe
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Sept. 7, 2023 – Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia that affects more than ...
Timothy Huang awarded $2.6M to solve Alzheimer’s disease puzzle
With the help of a new grant from the National Institute of Health for more than $2.6 million, Assistant Professor ...
IU researchers identify new gene mutation that alters Alzheimer’s disease risk
INDIANAPOLIS—A groundbreaking study led by experts from Indiana University School of Medicine has shed new light on the genetic underpinnings ...
Pitt researchers to study Alzheimer’s disease in marmosets
PITTSBURGH – To reimagine existing preclinical trials for Alzheimer’s disease, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine neuroscientists created the first non-human ...
Blood biomarker shows “great promise” predicting progression to Alzheimer’s disease in at-risk population
DETROIT – Neuroscience researchers at Wayne State University published a review article that confirms the usefulness of neurofilament light (NfL) ...
Radiologists must monitor novel Alzheimer’s treatment side effect
OAK BROOK, Ill. (August 31, 2023) – A new article published in RadioGraphics, a journal of the Radiological Society of ...
New blood test gives very high accuracy to screen for Alzheimer’s disease
A new blood test called p-tau217 shows promise as an Alzheimer's disease biomarker, and when used in a two-step workflow ...
Stanford Medicine-led study finds genetic factor fends off Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
About one in every five people carries a version of a gene that, although largely unsung, appears to confer protection ...
Educational attainment protects against a genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease
A new study by researchers from Mass General Brigham further illustrates that when it comes to risk of Alzheimer’s disease, ...
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Important additional driver of insect decline identified: Weather explains the decline and rise of insect biomass over 34 years
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Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal
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New study definitively confirms gulf stream weakening, understanding the changes could help predict future trends in extreme events
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New findings on hair loss in men
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Abdominal fat plays important role in remission of prediabetes
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New rooms discovered in Sahura’s Pyramid