Why do some people age rapidly while others maintain their health well into their 80s and 90s? A new study suggests that maintaining “youthful” organs may be key. Scientists led by Tony Wyss-Coray at ...

Is Alzheimer’s disease different in people with Down’s? Two recent proteomics studies say yes. In the July 1 Nature Communications, scientists led by Erik Johnson at Emory University School of ...

κWhen microglia wind up with a belly full of lipid droplets, it’s a sign that the cells are rallying, perhaps in vain, to a neurodegenerative threat. But according to a study published July 10 in Cell ...

Dozens of rodents have been generated that model various aspects of ALS, like motor impairment or degeneration of motor neurons. No model recapitulates the human disease perfectly. By organizing ...

This widely used tauopathy model was developed at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine by Virginia Lee, John Trojanowski, and colleagues. As first reported in 2007 on a mixed background, ...

Score another one for amyloid immunotherapy. The anti-pyroglutamated amyloid antibody donanemab has posted positive top-line results in the Phase 3 Trailblazer-Alz2 study, according to an Eli Lilly ...

This database is a repository of normal genetic variability, designed to be a tool for researchers who study neurodegenerative disease. It contains whole-exome sequencing results from nearly 500 ...

Over the last 40 years, age-adjusted dementia prevalence in the U.S. has dropped by two-thirds. This predicts a 25 percent rise in total dementia cases by 2050, due to population aging. The findings ...

Sasner sat down with Alzforum to go over what models are available now, which ones are coming, and how they could be used. The new mouse lines are the product of two different initiatives: NIA’s Model ...

Scientists from academia, pharmaceutical companies, and healthcare analysis firms reached no consensus on a threshold for meaningfulness, but broadly agreed that meaningfulness should be determined ...

Time to rewrite the brain anatomy textbook? In addition to the outermost dura, middle arachnoid, and innermost pia membranes surrounding the brain, researchers led by Kjeld Møllgård, University of ...

In older women, brief suspensions of respiration during sleep (apnea) may cause more than daytime drowsiness, increased cardiovascular risk, and insulin resistance—it may also lead to mild cognitive ...