A readily available sleep aid has been shown to have a surprising side effect on brain health, seemingly protecting the organ ...

The tau protein, which, when it becomes toxic, can lead to memory loss and cognitive decline. Researchers are now focusing on two main strategies to combat tau buildup: enhancing the body's ...

Microtubules provide structural support to neurons and microtubule stability is regulated through association with a protein known as tau. Tau is expressed in the central nervous system (CNS ...

A new study published in Nature Aging has uncovered new molecular signatures of frontotemporal dementia by analyzing over ...

Discover the surprising whole-body effects of Alzheimer's disease as evidence uncovers how brain proteins damage metabolism, ...

Mouse models treated with the sleep aid lemborexant had less brain damage compared to controls and mice that received a ...

This Brush Up is sponsored by Quanterix. Learn more about tau biomarkers and clinical applications. Tau is a flexible protein that stabilizes the internal structure of neurons and supports ...

Until now, scientists did not fully understand what tau protein aggregates were doing in the brain's blood vessels.To uncover the mystery, Dr. Fossati and graduate student Roberto Guzmán ...

Another study discovered a link between a history of HSV-1 diagnosis and a higher risk of Alzheimer’s, and that using ...

Scientists at Northwestern University and University of California, Santa Barbara have created the first synthetic fragment of tau protein that acts like a prion. The “mini prion” folds and stacks ...