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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
November 2, 2017 For the first time, researchers have convincing evidence of where exactly Alzheimer’s starts in the brain. A team from Lund University…
November 1, 2017 Since Alzheimer’s was first diagnosed over 100 years ago, scientists have been probing and searching the brain for answers to why…