Snoring and Sleep Apnea Linked to Uptick in Alzheimer’s Protein
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Emily Woodruff
| March 4th, 2019
A new study from the Mayo Clinic shows that people with sleep apnea are more likely to have higher levels of the protein tau,…
Women’s Brains Appear Younger Than Men’s. So Why Are They More At Risk for Alzheimer’s?
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Emily Woodruff
| February 4th, 2019
We know there are differences in men and women’s brains that can translate to varied reactions to environmental, lifestyle and genetic factors. But a…
New Blood Test Could Diagnose Alzheimer’s
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Preeti Jha
| December 10th, 2018
Scientists have developed a new blood test that could help diagnose and even predict Alzheimer’s disease in the latest research offering an alternative to…
Eliminating ‘Zombie’ Brain Cells Could Prevent Alzheimer’s
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Emily Woodruff
| September 19th, 2018
Inside your brain, there are 100 billion cells carrying out the daily tasks of keeping you alive and feeding you information: transmitting messages from…
Asthma Drug Reverses Alzheimer’s in Mice
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Emily Woodruff
| June 22nd, 2018
What if a drug to press rewind on the damage Alzheimer’s causes already exists? That’s what researchers at Temple University asked when they gave…
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…
Alzheimer’s Drug LMTX Completes Phase 3 Trial With Optimism—But Is It Cause to Celebrate?
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Being Patient
| November 29th, 2017
On the heels of recent Alzheimer’s drug failures by companies like Eli Lilly, Merck and Axovant, one pharmaceutical company is insisting there is a…
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