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Transcriptomics Identifies Genes & Signaling Pathways That May Regulate Neurodegeneration

... defining feature of neurodegenerative pathologies, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease and amyotrophic ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2015 - 12:48pm - 0 attachments

Resveratrol May Help Prevent Memory Loss

... afflicted with severe neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. In a paper in Scientific Reports, they reported that ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 8 2015 - 12:06pm - 0 attachments

Decreases In Short-term Memory, IQ In Urban Kids With APOE4 Allele

... E (APOE) ε4 allele -- the most prevalent genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease -- upon cognition, olfaction, and metabolic brain indices ... left hippocampus mI/Cr ratio, a ratio of key importance in Alzheimer's patients. "APOE ε4 is likely playing a role in Mexico City ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2015 - 5:53pm - 0 attachments

Fat And Sugar-Heavy Diets Are Addictive - And Harm Your Brain

A Western diet may be negatively affecting your brain not just your belly. Jams , CC BY-NC-SA By Terry Davidson , American University and Camille Sample , American University Do you eat only when you’re actually hungry ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 21 2015 - 9:00am - 0 attachments

Age-related Macular Degeneration: Blindness Linked To Calcium Deposits In The Eye

... samples were coated with amyloid beta, which is linked to Alzheimer's disease. If a technique were developed to identify these spheres for AMD diagnosis, it may also aid early diagnosis of Alzheimer's. Whether these spheres are a cause or symptom of AMD is still ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2015 - 7:01pm - 0 attachments

CohBar Completes IPO To Develop Mitochondrial-Derived Therapeutics

... age-related diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's disease and atherosclerosis. Mitochondria, the only parts of ... the treatment of diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's disease and atherosclerosis." "The successful completion of ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 25 2015 - 11:32pm - 0 attachments

Targeting Sugar Attachment To BACE1 Enzyme Reduces Alzheimer's Plaques

... in Japan have demonstrated that hallmark symptoms of Alzheimer's disease can be reduced when sugars are prevented from binding to ... In doing so, this work has revealed a novel mechanism for Alzheimer's disease development, potentially opening the way to a new approach ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 24 2015 - 8:00am - 0 attachments

Counterintuitive: Anti-Inflammatory Protein May Trigger Alzheimer's Disease Plaque

Inflammation has long a target in Alzheimer's disease studies so a new finding in Neuron is counterintuitive. ... of the illness. The finding suggests that Alzheimer's treatments might need to be tailored to patients depending on which forms of Apolipoprotein E, a major risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, these patients carry in their genes. The researchers ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2015 - 9:01am - 0 attachments

Insulin Nasal Spray Shows Promise As Treatment For Adults With Alzheimer's

... capabilities in adults with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease dementia, according to a pilot study led by researchers at ... mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or mild to moderate Alzheimer's dementia (AD). Those who received nasally-administered 40 ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2015 - 11:46am - 0 attachments

Coenzyme A Role In Nitric Oxide Function And Cell Metabolism

... levels are a common cause of atherosclerosis and Alzheimer's. "We are excited to say that these new classes of enzymes ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2015 - 10:15am - 0 attachments