At the turn of the 20th century, bovine tuberculosis, a bacterial disease that infected cows and spilled over to humans via milk ran rampant in France. Today, a weakened form of that same ...

Monoclonal antibodies continue to show their ability to rid the brain of amyloid plaques. Trouble is, those antibodies need to be injected on the regular to keep taking down their targets in the brain ...

Epidemiological suggestions that the shingles vaccine might protect against dementia keep rolling in. Pascal Geldsetzer, Stanford University, presented his group’s latest findings at this year’s ...

To mark the 20th anniversary of Alzforum's launch in 1996, we have compiled a timeline reflecting the evolution of Alzheimer’s disease research, starting from Alois Alzheimer's public presentation of ...

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Species: Mouse Genes: SNCA Modification: SNCA: Transgenic Disease Relevance: Parkinson's Disease Strain Name: B6;DBA-Tg(Thy1-SNCA)61Ema Genetic Background: (C57BL/6 x DBA/2)F1 (strain of origin) ...

The Senescence Accelerated Mouse-Prone 8 (SAMP8) is a naturally occuring mouse line that displays a phenotype of accelerated aging. While maintaining an inbred AKR/J line in the early 1970's, ...

The National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center unites the collections of the neuropathology cores at 27 NIA-funded AD Research Centers into a single database. It contains records on 13,000 brains, 3,000 ...

PSEN1 encodes presenilin-1, a subunit of γ-secretase, the aspartyl protease responsible for Aβ generation. More than 300 mutations in PSEN1 have been reported and mutations in PSEN1 are the most ...

An interactive timeline of the evolution of Alzheimer's Disease research.

Cerebrospinal fluid and plasma markers are now being used to help diagnose Alzheimer’s in memory clinics, but what about using them to stage the disease? That’s the next big step, said Henrik ...

A single-center pilot study at the Veterans Affairs Hospital/University of Washington in Seattle reported improved verbal memory retention and attention after a three-week test of 20 international ...