Researchers identify a new player in human immunity that can go rogue and turn the immune system against the body’s own ...

Alzheimer’s disease — which affects an estimated 7 million Americans — is notoriously difficult to detect, especially in its ...

A new biomarker test can detect early-stage tau protein clumping up to a decade before it appears on brain scans, improving early Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Unlike amyloid-beta, tau neurofibrillary ...

Researchers combined animal models, human brain tissue, and molecular analysis to uncover a connection between Alzheimer's ...

People who carry a certain variation of this repeated DNA sequence have more than double the risk (2.2 times higher)of ...

Neurogeneticists have discovered a novel genetic mutation and associated buildup of toxic proteins in the brain -- a type of buildup distinct from amyloid or tau, proteins that have long been the ...

The root causes of most forms of Alzheimer's disease largely remain a mystery. Now, researchers have revealed a new piece of the puzzle.

At the Human Amyloid Imaging (HAI) meeting, held January 15-17, researchers focused on new techniques—all based on tau and ...

Recent studies reveal strong links between air pollution and deposits in the brain, even in areas with low pollution levels.

A team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC has unlocked the details of a cellular pathway that triggers cellular inflammation and aging and is linked to Alzheimer's disease, ...

A team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC has unlocked the details of a cellular pathway that triggers ...