As animals experience new things, the connections between neurons, called synapses, strengthen or weaken in response to ...

A groundbreaking peer-reviewed Thought Leaders Invited Review article in Brain Medicine (Genomic Press, New York) explores how CD2-associated protein (CD2AP) contributes to Alzheimer's disease (AD), ...

The discovery of ‘ovoid cells’ is transforming our understanding of memory and may pave the way for new treatments for ...

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have studied the impact of two brain areas on the nature of memory content. The team from the Department of Neurophysiology showed in rats how the ...

In 1906, Alois Alzheimer first described an unusual set ... These two pathways are also part of a larger disease process that includes synaptic injury and inflammatory responses, each of which ...

Kefir, a probiotic-rich fermented milk, shows potential in reducing neuroinflammation, oxidative stress, and beta-amyloid ...

Erythropoietin-producing hepatoma (Eph) receptors, including EphA4, are expressed on the cell surface and involved in brain development, which involves extensive pruning of synapses. A variant in ...

The evolution of these cells throughout the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD ... controls to those with advanced AD neuropathologic change (ADNC). Our dataset of astrocyte transcriptomics ...

with increasing evidence linking it to a reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease." Kyeremanteng explained that "BDNF is a key neurotrophic factor that enhances neurogenesis, synaptic plasticity ...

AriBio has signed off on exclusive marketing rights for its Alzheimer ... change in the Clinical Dementia Rating Scale after a year. AR1001 works by inhibiting neuronal death and restoring ...