The ε4 variant of the apolipoprotein-E (ApoE) gene has been shown to confer increased risk for Alzheimer's disease. Gary Small, Susan Bookheimer, and colleagues report that carriers of the ε4 allele need to exert their brains more...
A number of inherited neurodegenerative disorders (e.g., Huntingtons's disease and spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy) have been traced to the abnormal
repetition of CAG sequences in the coding for particular proteins...
A protein previously identified as a transporter of inorganic phosphate also transports glutamate into synaptic vesicles, according to a paper in today's Science...
Epidemiological studies have hinted strongly that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) might delay the progression of Alzheimer's disease. In the August 1 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience...
Presenilins and Lewy body pathology. Lippa et al (173) used α-synuclein immunoreactivity to determine the frequency of Lewy body (LB) occurrence in familial Alzheimer's disease...
Increasing attention has focused on the role of synucleins in neurodegeneration. α-synuclein was originally cloned by Richard Scheller from rat brain (1). Subsequently...
Joseph F. Poduslo and colleagues at Mayo Clinic report in the August issue of Nature Biotechnology (pp. 868-872) on a technique for imaging Aβ deposits in living brain...
Mice carrying the P301 mutation in tau, which causes human frontotemporal dementia, develop neurofibrillary pathology with features mimicking those of human tauopathies...
This symposium (held 10 July) covered the gamut of age-related evolution of brain function in AD from behavioral studies emphasizing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) through microscopic structure...
The relative paucity of presentations utilizing array technologies to study alterations of gene expression in Alzheimer's disease indicates that these powerful technologies are yet to be fully utilized in the study of AD...
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) has been defined as a clinical entity whose characteristics were reviewed by Ron Petersen. Persons with MCI have memory impairment beyond what would be expected for age, yet they are not demented...
The scientific highlight of the Prof. Henry Wisniewski
memorial symposium (12 July) was an informative lecture about familial
British dementia (FBD)...
Almost 12% (152) of the 1307 abstracts presented at the
7th International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease and related
disorders made reference to presenilin (PS)...