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·March 11, 2014·3 min read

Restoring Order in the Brain

Researchers discover hippocampal neurogenesis reduces symptoms of AD.

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·March 9, 2014·4 min read

Blood Test Identifies Those at Risk for Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer’s Within 3 Years

Researchers have created and validated a blood test which can, with 90 percent accuracy, predict if a healthy person will develop AD within 3 years.

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·March 7, 2014·2 min read

Inherited Alzheimer’s Damage Greater Decades Before Symptoms Appear

Neuronal damage can begin up to twenty years before Alzheimer's symptoms appear, researchers report.

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·February 28, 2014·3 min read

Scientists Wake Up to Causes of Sleep Disruption in Alzheimer’s Disease

The biological clock doesn't stop working for those with Alzheimer's disease, but it does detach from sleep wake cycles, a new report claims.

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·February 28, 2014·2 min read

Chaperone Binds Protein Responsible for Alzheimers Disease

The molecular recognition mechanisms which play a role in the binding of tau to Hsp90 have been revealed in a new study.

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·February 27, 2014·3 min read

After Death, Twin Brains Show Similar Patterns of Neuropathologic Changes

Researchers compared the brains of twins where one, or both, died with Alzheimer's disease. They discovered many of the twins not only had similar progressions of the disease before death, but also similar combinations of pathologies.

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·February 25, 2014·2 min read

Brain Cell Activity Regulates Alzheimer’s Protein

A new study reports that increased neural activity boosts tau levels in the brain.

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·February 25, 2014·2 min read

New Risk Gene Illuminates Alzheimer’s Disease

Researchers have isolated a gene believed to play a casual role in the development of Alzheimer's disease.

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·February 21, 2014·3 min read

Geneticists Show How Molecular Switches Coordinate the Nervous System

Geneticists discover the same molecular switches which induce non-descript cells to specialize also makes nerve cells respond differently to the environment.