Low-level light therapy, also called photobiomodulation (PBM), has emerged as a promising approach to Alzheimer's treatment, ...

Figure 1: Imaging of amyloid ... high level of amyloid-β deposits throughout the cortex and hippocampal formation. Histochemical staining for microglia cells revealed a marked upregulation ...

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

Alzheimer's disease, a type of dementia that profoundly alters a person’s memory and cognitive function, affects an estimated ...

Scientists have identified a biomarker for Alzheimer's that may help doctors spot the early signs of protein buildup in the ...

Brain inflammation, while a crucial part of the body's immune response, takes on a detrimental role in Alzheimer's disease.

There exists no ‘amyloid cabal’” in Alzheimer’s research, neurologist Dennis Selkoe writes in response to Charles Piller’s ...

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

(1) Amyloid beta: A protein viewed as a cause ... neurofibrillary tangles, and neuronal cell death (4) Amyloid PET: a brain imaging test visualizing Abeta accumulation in the brain (5 ...

This nuclear imaging technique is less invasive, but still requires injection of a radioactive tracer molecule (TC-PYP), which binds to amyloid fibrils and allows for their detection throughout ...