Protein accumulations do important work in the human body, but something can go wrong and proliferate in those aggregates, ...

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

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 ...

Florbetapir positron emission tomography imaging of amyloid-beta showed strong correlations with autopsy measures of amyloid plaque pathology obtained within 1 year after imaging. A hallmark ...

The study focuses on how immune cells react to amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer's, and how this immune ...

Beta-cell imaging is an emerging field that focuses on visualizing and quantifying the mass and function of pancreatic beta cells, which are crucial for insulin production and regulation of blood ...

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

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