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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

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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

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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

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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

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Future scientists inspired by recipients of Breakthrough Prize

January 6, 2017 Alzheimer's Disease, Award, Parkinson's Disease, Rett Syndrome

Since being honored with the prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine’s Dr. Huda Zoghbi has been busy, but not just with

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A new experimental system sheds light on how memory loss may occur

August 26, 2016 Alzheimer's Disease, entorhinal cortex, hippocampus, ivermectin, Memory, Neuroscience

Two interconnected brain areas – the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex – help us to know where we are and to remember it later. It

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Annual Alzheimer’s update focuses on early detection

November 14, 2014 Aging, Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's Disease, Dr. Rachelle Doody, Graciela Gutierrez

As research continues on how to best treat Alzheimer’s disease, it is becoming clearer that identifying the disease in its earliest stages, or even before

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In case you missed it: Back to school, Alzheimer’s research and more

August 31, 2013 Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's Disease, Audrey M. Marks, back to school, Baylor College of Medicine Academy at Ryan, hpv vaccine, human papillomavirus, In Case You Missed It, kids, Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, Neurology, Nutrition, Parkinson's Disease, Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative, Recipes, school lunches, Stress

Thanks for joining us for our weekly roundup of news, research, health and science before you kick off a long holiday weekend. Back to School