Three genome-wide association studies, including the largest-ever thanks to UK Biobank, reveal 13 new AD risk loci. They implicate APP processing in LOAD, and further highlight inflammation and lipid metabolism.
A large retrospective study in veterans finds that even brain injuries that cause no loss of consciousness come with a twofold higher risk of developing all-cause dementia.
Computational models predict that ALS mutations tax the flexibility of profilin-1, weaken binding with key partners including actin, and boost the protein’s propensity to aggregate.
Ablating BACE1 in adult mice spares them from most problems found in germline knockouts. However, axons extending from newborn hippocampal neurons still lose their way.
The largest study so far to compare brain scans and CSF among African-Americans and Caucasians finds differences, but participant numbers remain small.