What We Learned From the Latest Alzheimer’s Drug Failure
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Emily Woodruff
| January 25th, 2018
Another Alzheimer’s drug has failed in a phase 3 trial, the stage right before drugs go to the Food and Drug Administration for approval….
New Discovery Suggests Neuron Death Does Not Kickstart Dementia
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Emily Woodruff
| January 19th, 2018
The leading theory in Alzheimer’s disease is that memory loss is the result of neuron death and nerve ending damage, which lead to memory…
New Study Shows How Tau Spreads Across the Brain in Alzheimer’s
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Being Patient
| January 5th, 2018
New advances in brain imaging have allowed scientists from Cambridge University to track how tau, a protein that accumulates in the brain in Alzheimer’s…
Inflammation Could Be What Drives Alzheimer’s
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Being Patient
| December 22nd, 2017
December 22, 2017 Scientists still aren’t sure what causes Alzheimer’s disease, though there are many theories—beta-amyloid, an accumulation of a type of protein in…
Study Claims Urea Is the Major Cause of Dementia
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Being Patient
| December 12th, 2017
December 12, 2017 Scientists believe that some types of dementia, like Alzheimer’s, are caused by the build-up of two proteins: beta-amyloid and tau. A…
Decreasing ‘Stress Granules’ Could Stop Dementia
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Being Patient
| November 21st, 2017
November 21, 2017 Scientists have known for a long time that the accumulation of two proteins, beta-amyloid and tau, signify Alzheimer’s presence in the…
How Healthy Brains Answer Questions About Alzheimer’s
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Being Patient
| November 21st, 2017
November 20, 2017 Research into healthy brains has helped scientists identify where things may be going wrong in patients with Alzheimer’s. Dr. Beth Stevens,…
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