Researchers at Mayo Clinic, with their national and international collaborators, have discovered how a class of agents now in testing to treat Alzheimer’s disease work, and say they may open up an avenue of drug discovery for this disease and others.

In the June 12 issue of Nature, they report t…

Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) neuroscientists at UQ have discovered a new way to reduce neuronal loss in the brain of a person with Alzheimer’s disease.

Memory loss in people with Alzheimer’s disease can be attributed to several factors.

These include a build-up of the neuro-toxin Amyloid…

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The major drug companies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop an Alzheimer’s drug based largely on “theory and hope” as one scientist put it in a recent article in Forbes.

Now amidst frustration…

Blocking a common immune system response cleared up plaques associated with Alzheimer’s Disease and enabled treated mice to recover some lost memory, Yale University researchers report Friday in the journal Nature Medicine.

Researchers hope the new approach may one day overcome one of the bigg…

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Mouse model mimics clinical features

Neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins have discovered that mice lacking an enzyme that contributes to Alzheimer disease exhibit a number of schizophrenia-like behaviors. The finding raises the possibility that this enzyme may participate in the development of schiz…

Modulating enkephalin may reduce cognitive deficits

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an incurable disease that is increasing in prevalence and will increase even more rapidly as the Baby Boom generation enters the age of highest risk. The available AD drugs are only partially effective in some patie…

An article published in the April issue of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease presents a detailed characterization of a new drug discovery tool for Alzheimer’s disease. It demonstrates that an abnormal form of tau protein, as it occurs in Alzheimer’s disease, can be produced in very simple cell mo…

The ability of brain cells to take in substances from their surface is essential to the production of a key ingredient in Alzheimer’s brain plaques, neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have learned.

The researchers used a drug to shut down the intake process, …

A new blood test that can give an early diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease and distinguish between Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease could be launched this summer, reports Marina Murphy in SCI’s Chemistry & Industry magazine.

Manufacturer, Oklahoma-based proteomics company, Power3 Med…