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Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease: What you need to know

October 23, 2018 Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia, Dr. Mark Kunik, Geriatrics, Healthcare, Nicole Blanton, Psychiatry

There are many concerns associated with aging, including issues with memory or cognitive decline. You may hear the terms dementia and Alzheimer’s disease used interchangeably

From The Labs

Connecting Tau aggregates, transposable elements and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease

August 2, 2018 Alzheimer's Disease, genomic instability, neurlogic diseases, Neurodegeneration, Research, tau, transposable elements

Although it’s been known for years that the accumulation of Tau protein within brain cells in combination with progressive cell death is one of the

From The Labs

Two is better than one, to improve brain function on a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

April 24, 2018 Alzheimer's Disease, amyloid-beta, mouse model, mTOR, Research

Many of the therapies that are currently being developed to treat Alzheimer’s disease focus on reducing the levels of amyloid-beta, a small protein that is

From The Labs

When protein regulators go awry, neurological disease may follow

April 19, 2018 Alzheimer's Disease, Ataxin1, Mouse models, neurological disease, PUMILIO1, Research, SCA1

Scientists are expanding their horizons in their search for disease-causing genes. Consider for instance a neurological condition called spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1), a disease

From The Labs

How infrequent seizures may lead to persistent memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease

January 10, 2018 Alzheimer's Disease, calbindin, deltaFosB, epilepsy, epileptic seizures, hippocampus, memory loss

Even relatively infrequent seizures can lead to long-lasting cognitive deficits in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease; how this happens, however, has been difficult to explain.

From The Labs

Breakdown of neuron-glia partnership can pave the way to neurodegeneration

November 30, 2017 Alzheimer's Disease, APOE4, free radicals, glia cells, lipid accumulation, Neurodegeneration, neuron

In 2015, Dr. Lucy Liu, now a Ph.D. graduate in neuroscience from the Bellen lab, discovered that a number of genes involved in neurodegeneration promote

Momentum

Tips to care for medical conditions after a storm

September 6, 2017 Alzheimer's Disease, Autism, Cancer, Dana Benson, Hurricane Harvey

People living with Alzheimer’s disease, autism spectrum disorder and other diseases such as cancer who have been impacted by Hurricane Harvey may be facing challenges

From The Labs

‘Silent seizures’ discovered in patients with Alzheimer’s disease

July 10, 2017 Alzheimer's Disease, deep brain, eeg, epilepsy, epileptic seizures, hippocampus, nonconvulsive seizures, seizures

Deep in the brains of two patients with Alzheimer’s disease, the main memory structure, the hippocampus, displays episodic seizure-like electrical activity. These nonconvulsive hippocampal seizures

From The Labs

How the brain remembers fearful experiences

March 31, 2017 Alzheimer's Disease, brain circuits, brain spike pattern, fear, fearful experience, Memory, Neuroscience, place cells, rat model

Dr. Daoyun Ji drives to his lab every morning. If asked, he can easily recall the route he takes, “but, what are the brain signals

From The Labs

A pill to prevent Alzheimer’s disease might someday be a reality

January 18, 2017 Alzheimer's Disease, fruit fly model, Genetics, mouse model, Nuak1, Parkinson's Disease, tau

Taking a pill that prevents the accumulation of toxic molecules in the brain might someday help prevent or delay Alzheimer’s disease, according to scientists at