The brains of people with Down syndrome develop the same neurodegenerative tangles and plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease and frequently demonstrate signs of the neurodegenerative disorder in ...

The evidence that prion forms of A-β and tau play a specific role in Alzheimer's disease -- one that cannot be captured by simply counting amyloid plaques and tau tangles in patient brains ...

The brains of people with Down syndrome (DS) develop the same neurodegenerative tangles and plaques that are associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and individuals with DS commonly exhibit ...

Prion diseases are a rare group of neurodegenerative disorders. Learn more about the symptoms, causes, treatment options, and tips for prevention.

WHAT: National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists investigating how prion diseases destroy the brain have observed a new form of the disease in mice that does not cause the sponge-like brain ...

So how did the patients in the case series wind up with Alzheimer’s? Call it a major medical mishap: They were part of a cohort of more than 1,800 people who, between the years of 1959 and 1985 ...

Infectious prions are thought to cause normal prion proteins, which are present throughout the brain, to shift shape into the infectious form. Abnormal proteins then clump into tough protein plaques.

The brains of people with Down syndrome develop the same neurodegenerative tangles and plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease and frequently demonstrate signs of the neurodegenerative ...