Tag Archives: Alzheimers

The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer’s disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest, with recent years witnessing several important controversies. In July 2022, Science magazine reported that a key 2006 research paper, published in the prestigious journal Nature, which identified a subtype of brain protein called beta-amyloid as the cause of Alzheimer’s, may have been based on …

Rick is helping to answer a question central to the future of Alzheimer’s care: Can the disease be stopped, or delayed, before it has noticeable effects? Doctors now believe the seeds of Alzheimer’s are planted decades before symptoms emerge, and the best hope for combating the illness will be treating people when they’re feeling just fine. Rick is participating in …

Might brain damage linked to Alzheimer’s be one of the reasons dolphins lose their way and end up stranded? It’s a possibility explored in a new study of 20 common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) stranded in the Indian River Lagoon, Florida, between 2010 and 2019. What’s more, the researchers behind the study have linked the signs of dolphin neurodegeneration to …

Researchers have identified a gene that they reported was linked to a 1.5 times-higher likelihood of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. In the first large-scale trial of brains afflicted by the disease in African American donors, scientists from Boston University zeroed in on the ADAMTS2 gene in brain tissue from those with autopsy-confirmed Alzheimer’s disease. ADAMTS2 is crucial to the formation …

Scientists on Tuesday reported that they had reversed Alzheimer’s disease in mice, a feat that offers hope of a potential cure for the devastating form of dementia in humans. In a paper published Tuesday in Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, a team of researchers describe how, by harnessing the brain’s garbage disposal system, they managed to repair the brain and …

He Was Expected to Get Alzheimer’s 25 Years Ago. Why Hasn’t He?  The New York Times Source link

A study of around 500,000 medical records published in 2023 suggested that severe viral infections like encephalitis and pneumonia increase the risk of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. Researchers found 22 connections between viral infections and neurodegenerative conditions in the study of around 450,000 people. People treated for a type of inflammation of the brain called viral encephalitis were …

A team of researchers from Florida International University (FIU) examined a brain protein previously associated with brain inflammation in Alzheimer’s patients, in an effort to gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between the protein and the disease. What they discovered could translate into an early signal of neurodegeneration that could eventually lead to dementia. In mice models of Alzheimer’s, …

People are living longer than ever in 2025, and while the likes of artificial intelligence are helping catapult the medical industry forward, we’re still a long way from curing the many harrowing diseases that affect the human body. Even though we continue making progress in trying to cure cancer, Alzheimer’s is a ravaging disease that continues to baffle. Although some …

Researchers have pinpointed a specific region of the brain that may explain why older adults often feel less familiar with their surroundings as they age.  Experts from Stanford University analyzed over a dozen mice similar in age to humans, ranging from 20 to 90 years old.  As the mice ran through virtual reality simulations, their brains’ medial entorhinal cortex fired …