“This is a wonderful piece of work,” said Henrik Zetterberg at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He was not involved in ...

Both Tabrizi and Yang think that knocking down MSH3 could stave off HD pathology. Tabrizi noted that MSH3 also modifies other run-on repeats, including those causing fragile X syndrome, myotonic ...

Unlike other prior studies that detected changes in AD markers following COVID-19 infection ( Jan 2021 news; May 2023 ...

Cohen encouraged researchers to look at biomarker patterns within racial minority groups with dementia, rather than only ...

Scientists are urgently seeking fluid biomarkers for frontotemporal dementia, the most common dementing illness among 40- and ...

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At the Human Amyloid Imaging (HAI) meeting, held January 15-17, researchers focused on new techniques—all based on tau and ...

Detecting toxic forms of tau before they weave into dense thickets of tangles could pave the way for earlier diagnosis and ...

When it comes to tau tangles, cortical deposits receive the lion’s share of scientists’ attention, but it is the tiny subcortical regions where tangles originate that might set the course for ...